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Report Crime is something thats been in the back of my mind for a while now and 6 months ago, If not longer I decided to implement it. It will be an on-going project that I really want to get off the ground. Its a community based crime notification and awareness tool. It’s currently a free service and I intend to keep it that way. However it needs to look after itself financially in the end, and that would be supported by advertisers.
My main focus rite now is to build up users for the site, Ive already started advertising on Facebook. I originally tested the idea by putting up a very simple crime logging system, and the response I got from advertising though Google was very good. However that system had no methods in place to track users. It was extremely simple and was setup in less than a week, I wonder if the current system is too complex and the key to its success is to be ridiculously simple.
Look at Craigs list, as ugly as hell as there is no styling and no js, but that makes it fast and is one of the most successful sites around the world.
Please click HERE to visit Derrick’s site to read more and HERE to visit the Report Crime-site where you can also report a crime if you know about one!
I think this kind of site is the first in the world and I personally think it is great! I’m in contact with Frederic on Twitter – his twitter-name is Deighardt and through him I got to know about this site which is his cousin’s mastermind – Derrick. I hope people will find it useful and use it too as it is a great tool to even report crime too. Planning to visit South Africa…check out this site for crime hotspots! Planning to travel…from Pretoria to Durban…or wherever…check it out. You know of any crime…report it! You can even search for places in South Africa or set up an email/sms-alert. This is what we need in our country…maybe all over the world!
It’s a shame that crime is such an issue in South Africa. We have a beautiful country…as many visitors have said what these two also say…
This is my second week in South Africa. What a stunningly beautiful country. The people are diverse and lovely. The food is fabulous. The vistas are varied and magnificent…Diana Mason…June 2009 from http://ajnoffthecharts.com
South Africans know how to put relationships ahead of tasks. You can stop by someone’s house for coffee ,and even if they were on their way to the store, they will stop everything and spend an hour with you. Feb 2010 -An American in Pretoria…http://anamericaninpretoria.blogspot.com
Chessalee 
Kommerwekkend en veral na die manslag op Eugene Terre Blanche!
Ek gaan niet na die WK voetbal nie. Suid Afrika is nou te gevaarlik.
STERKTE.
Kommerwekkend! …en veral na die sluipmoord op Eugene Terre- Blanche.
Wees versigtig.
hi Tony…Goed om jou weer hier te sien. Ek moes jou eers uit die Spam-boksie gaan red het. 🙂
Dis moeilik om te se, as ek ‘n uitlander was, sou ek beslis ook nie daardie kans gewaag het nie. Jy weet nie of jy lewendig terug gaan kom nie, maar Suid-Afrikaners het darem ‘n idee om weg te bly van sekere plekke af en te weet waarheen om nie te gaan nie, veral sekere gebiede waar sommige van die stadiums is. Ek sal geen uitlander aanraai om te gaan nie, net as hy saam met Suid-Afrikaners kan wees wat weet waarheen om te gaan sodat hulle veilig kan wees, maar selfs dit is nie ‘n waarborg nie. Dis ‘n groot jammerte, Suid-Afrika is ‘n pragtige land en dat ons mooi land nou in so ‘n plek moes ontaard het dat mense onveilig voel. Dit het ons van die ANC-regering. jammer om dit te se, maar dis die waarheid.
Erm…ek wil weer my nek uitsteek en se dat dit nie so sleg sal gaan met die Wereldbeker nie. Selfs nou. Ja, die nuus het slegte berigte, maar ek dink darem nie ons lewe in ‘n state of emergency nie. 😉
Ek stem saam Vlam, nie state of emergency nie, veral nie nadat die AWB dit duidelik gemaak het dat hulle nie gaan wraak neem nie, daarvoor was ek bang, want as hulle sou wou, dan sou daar beslis ‘n klein oorloggie uitgebreek het, veral as jy die gemoedere gelees het op African Crisis!
Ek sou die boodskap duidelik uitstuur na die sokker-spanne “Julle neem jul veiligheid in jul eie hande”
Hoe kan JZ mense VERSEKER van hul veiligheid tensy hy
1) Naief is
2) Weet dat daar sindikate bestaan wat beheer kan word
no 1 of no 2? Mense moet maar self besluit, maar dat terreur gevolg word teen plaasboere, is gewis.
Ek stem, Sammi!
Geen wonder daardie Afrikaners hul land agterlaat!
Ek hoop op een beter toekoms.
Groetnis uit Holland, Tony
Dankie Tony, ons hoop vir die afgelope 16 jaar vir ‘n beter toekoms in Suid-Afrika. Groete aan jou ook!
That’s the spirit.
Keep up positive and never give up hope.
Groetnis ut die hoog noorden
hi Tony… tks, we’ll try. Groete aan jou ook! (of “groetjes” soos julle se) 🙂