Shoothill’s “FloodAlerts” on Facebook has been selected as a winner in the Guardian Innovation Nation Awards – and it runs on Windows Azure

The  Guardian Innovation Nation Awards – Winners - Innovation in enterprise - Shoothill

"With over 5m properties and assets worth £132.2bn in England and Wales at risk from flooding, Shoothill and the Environment Agency (EA) have released the world's first visual representation of live flood information on Facebook - FloodAlerts. "FloodAlerts uses data supplied by EA experts and displays pin-point accurate shapes on a BING map represented as different colours depending on the extent and severity of each flood warning (updated every 15 minutes). "Facebook users can register any ___location they want to monitor and if a relevant alert is issued, they then receive a notification on their Facebook wall and to their email address."

Its a really amazing application, and given some of the recent bad weather we have had here in the UK, well worth checking out:

And for an application that needed to run 24 x 7 and scale to meet the demands that such an application needs to handle, which platform did Shoothill choose? Windows Azure of course!