| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Mar 30, 2015 | 7 Code for Philly ‘DemHack’ apps that could inspire civic engagement | Hackathon Rule #1: You don’t need to be a coder to help develop powerful tools, especially if those tools encourage civic engagement.
Community organizers, democracy enthusiasts, data zealots, technologists and civic-minded Philadelphians a... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | How you can use the newly-revived EveryBlock right now | Last month, Comcast re-introduced EveryBlock Philly to the local scene.
The service compiles news and information from hundreds of local bloggers, news outlets, open data initiatives and more, and delivers them to you based on the locations... |
| Aug 6, 2013 | Paul Smith: EveryBlock cofounder, Fed Hill resident on Public Good Software | Building enterprise software for nonprofits might not have been expected of one of the pioneers of the open government movement, but that’s exactly where Paul Smith finds himself now.
The 36-year-old Smith, a Frederick native and St. Mary’s... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Somehow, we’re all stumbling along without Google Reader | Talk about badly-timed debuts. Google rolled out its latest new product, Keep, one week after it announced it would be shutting down Google Reader.
For people already upset about Google’s lack of commitment to preserving their data over the... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | EveryBlock closes: NBC News cites lack of strategic fit | EveryBlock, the hyperlocal news and neighborhood data service acquired by MSNBC.com in 2009, closed abruptly today. NBC News, which took control of the site after ending its MSNBC.com joint venture with Microsoft, says it ultimately couldn’... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | EveryBlock: neighborhood discussion site closes | EveryBlock, the neighborhood discussion site that was in 19 different cities, including Philadelphia, has shut down. Read its blog post about the closing here.
This past fall, the site launched an advertising campaign in Philly and said tha... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | NBC News abruptly yanks the plug on hyperlocal news outfit EveryBlock | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hyperlocal news business EveryBlock, an early pio... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | NBC News abruptly yanks the plug on hyperlocal news outfit EveryBlock | Hyperlocal news business EveryBlock, an early pioneer in data-driven news aggregation, has been shut down by parent NBC News, it announced today.
EveryBlock launched in late 2007 with the promise of aggregating community news you’d want to ... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Everyblock’s Obituary: NBC’s Failure Is An Opportunity For The Next Hyperlocal Startup | Everyblock, a hyperlocal news startup born in Chicago, IL, died unexpectedly this morning. The official cause of death was its lack of a sustainable business model. It is survived by its founder Adrian Holovaty, a dedicated team, a communit... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | NBC Shutters Hyper-Local News And Information Site EveryBlock After Failing To Find The Right Business Model | It’s not easy trying to make money as a hyper-local network these days (just ask AOL’s Patch), but in a surprising move, NBC just announced that it is shutting down EveryBlock, the Knight Foundation-backed news and information site MSNBC ac... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | EveryBlock: neighborhood discussion site launches ad campaign in Philly | EveryBlock, the Chicago-based neighborhood discussion site and news source that’s in 19 cities across the country, has taken to Philly’s subway stations and bus stops.
In an advertising push that began in February of this year in New York C... |
| Aug 28, 2012 | Rackspace Acquires Mailgun, A Y Combinator Startup That Gives App Developers An API For Creating And Managing Online Mailboxes | Rackspace has acquired Mailgun, a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup that has developed an API for creating and managing online email inboxes for apps and websites. It’s a concept that sounds simple on its face, but Mailgun’s ease of ... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Local Is Focal: Street Fight Gives The Local Industry A Source For News And Analysis | I’m beginning to think that the old phrase “think globally, act locally” has become an appropriate slogan for Web 2.0. (Or perhaps an alternative might be “think global, try to monetize the sh*t out of local”.) With the rise of location-bas... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | EveryBlock Putting Focus Back on Community | EveryBlock, a hyper-local news feed service, has announced its first major redesign that not only changed the look of the site, but also its focus. Rather than remaining a news feed only, they have shifted their focus and added a platform f... |
| Mar 4, 2011 | Hyperlocal Heartbreak: Why Haven’t Neighborhood News Technologies Worked Out? | Neighborhood news aggregator Outside.in has been acquired by AOL, according to multiple reports this morning. Apparently it’s being bought for less than the big pile of money that high-profile investors put into it, back when hopes were hig... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Local Continuing Education Classes Now Included in Everyblock | Everyblock, the data-driven hyper-local news website covering 16 US cities, announced today that it has added continuing education listings from the website TeachStreet to its newsfeed. Now you can learn when there are new cooking or violin... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Everyblock Launches Hyperlocal News Firehose API | Hyperlocal news aggregator Everyblock announced today that it is releasing a firehose API to integrate its data into large partner sites. Everyblock brings together real time and near real-time public records like 911 calls, restaurant heal... |
| May 27, 2010 | BlockChalk lands $1M for community-based mobile messaging | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BlockChalk, a mobile application that lets people... |
| May 27, 2010 | TopicFire Launches Facebook News Pages | Launched in December, news aggregator TopicFire has now turned its attention to Facebook. It has generated two dozen news pages devoted to breaking news topics, populated on Facebook. These run the gamut from Apple News to World News. (Via ... |
| May 27, 2010 | BlockChalk lands $1M for community-based mobile messaging | BlockChalk, a mobile application that lets people leave messages for other community members, today announced it has secured a $1 million round of funding, the company’s first. The funding will be used to expand the company’s team as it loo... |
| May 24, 2010 | DeHood: A Location-Based Social Network for Your Neighborhood | The current crop of location-based social networks mostly focus on getting users to check in and share tips about local venues like restaurants, stores and coffee shops. DeHood, which officially launched earlier today, wants to bring a bit ... |
| Apr 24, 2010 | The Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow | As AOL pours $50 million into its hyperlocal news site Patch.com to expand its sites around the country, smaller competitors are maintaining confidence that their platforms can survive AOL’s aggressive content strategy. Outside.In CEO Mark ... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | The Day EveryBlock Came to Town | A fight just broke out down the street from my house. Yesterday, a dog in my neighborhood had one of its legs amputated. That’s the kind of news I like to know and so I’m very excited that MSNBC’s hyper-local news aggregator EveryBlock has ... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Chicago | Holding down the proverbial fort for the mid-west, Chicago, the Windy City, is the third largest city in the U.S. and the most populous city that doesn’t sit on an ocean coast. The city, which does, however, rest on the shore of Lake Michig... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Cause-Based Funding: Startl and Philanthropic Startup Investment | Raising funding is hard any way you slice it, but the emergence of cause-base resources is helping pave the way for ethical startups that might have otherwise gone unseen. A few years ago we featured 13 seed funding options for entrepreneur... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | BlockChalk lets you leave geo-tagged notes for the neighborhood | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fostering a sense of local community in the age o... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | BlockChalk lets you leave geo-tagged notes for the neighborhood | Fostering a sense of local community in the age of the Internet and globalization is no easy task.
A new venture called BlockChalk from the former product lead of del.ici.ous Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer of Stanford’s Institute of Design... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Notify Your Neighbors: EveryBlock Launches User-Contributed Announcements | Until now, all the news on the hyperlocal news site EveryBlock was compiled by the site’s editors and algorithms. Today, EveryBlock launched a nifty new feature that allows its users to post stories to the site and notify their neighbors ab... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | BigMapple, other NYC apps load up on location data online | reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
One of the big trends of 2009 has been the mass proliferation of location-based services. They can be for functional reasons ... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | CNN Backs Outside.in to Power News From Your Neighborhood | Outside.in is a hyper-local news aggregator and when they say hyper-local they mean it – the site captures news, blog posts and other resources right down to the neighborhood level. The company announced tonight that it’s raised a nice roun... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | SMSONE: Micro-Local News From India To Make Silicon Valley Jealous | Of the hundreds of companies I meet in any given country, I only write about a handful. Sometimes it’s the ones that seem to be copying a US idea, but in reality are building their company in a completely unique—and frequently more profitab... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | Gov 2.0: It's All About The Platform | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O’Reilly Media and a conference organizer. O’Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago. Now he is arguing it is time for Gov 2.0,... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | MSNBC Picks Up Hyperlocal News Aggregator EveryBlock | Even though they haven’t really found a big audience yet, hyperlocal news sites are becoming a hot commodity. In June, AOL bought Patch for $7 million, and today MSNBC acquired EveryBlock. EveryBlock was previously funded by a grant from th... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Roundup: MySpace buys iLike, Tom Tom’s $100 app | Tom Tom GPS app for the iPhone draws a $100 price — Engadget rounds up early reviews and finds that it’s well liked … by guys who just spent a hundred bucks on it.
IBM says DNA could become part of microchips — Future generations of semicon... |
| May 10, 2009 | Calling All Coders: Journalism Schools Want You To Save The News Industry | As newspapers struggle for viability, and media managers attempt to shift presence to the web, a need has arisen for talent with the technical skills of a programmer and the creative skills of a journalist. Over at TechCrunch, we are fortun... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Rethinking The Local Paper | This is my local newspaper, called The Villager. If you live in Greenwich Village, NYC, you probably read The Villager. But there are several problems with The Villager (which was voted NY State’s "Best Community Newspaper").
Firs... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Another Attempt To Reinvent What A 'News' Provider Really Should Provide | We’ve been talking quite a bit lately about the news industry, all too often focusing on journalists (or former journalists) whining about the old days or making ridiculous or downright bizarre proposals for how to turn back time. Many of t... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | EveryBlock Launches as Local News Aggregator for SF, NYC, and Chicago | EveryBlock launches today as a geographically-filtered news and data aggregation service for San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago. The site attempts to answer one deceptively simple question: “What’s happening in my neighborhood?” For ... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | EveryBlock, an especially slick service for discovering local information | EveryBlock is a newly launched site that gathering data about neighborhoods, such as business reviews from sites like Yelp, crime reports from local police departments and online news stories from local publications.
It puts this informatio... |