Hacks/Hackers Brighton, which is organised by Journalism.co.uk, takes place from 3.30pm today.

The talks will be live streamed here from 3.30-4.30pm, plus you can follow the hashtag #hhbtn.

Watch live streaming video from journalismcouk at livestream.com

There will be two short talks on apps, both based on the Guardian. One is Guardian Anywhere, an unofficial app for Android, which Tom Hume and James Hugman from Future Platforms will be telling us about. The second is an HTML5 web-app built with a focus on mobile devices. This yet-to-be-released app is powered by the Guardian API and designer/developer Robert Douglas from Ribot will be telling us how he's created it.

We're also going to be looking at mapping. Community coordinator at the Guardian Laura Oliver will be telling us about how Crowdmap was used during the clean up after the riots. Crowdmap was built by non-profit tech company Ushahidi. Erik Hersman, one of its founders, is just off a plane from Kenya and so becomes the only non-Brightonian to talk at this meetup. He will give some more examples of how the Ushahidi platform has been used.

Andy Hume from ClearLeft, who worked for Multimap until it was acquired by Microsoft and then became development lead for Bing Maps UK, will be talking about data mapping.

This event is part of Brighton Digital Festival: a month-long celebration of digital culture, 1 - 30 September 2011.

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