Hyper Local content-aggregator site by Steven Johnson

• Plat Form for Citizen Journalism?

http://outside.in/

Hmm, no RSS feed. Which I guess has to do with Business Model...

possible revenue streams

• GooGle AdWords

• Double Click WebAd-s

• sell their own WebAd-s

• Classified Ads

competitors (for traffic and revenue), or data source?

• GooGle

• Craigs List

• City Search

• Techno Rati http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/eastvillage , Del Icio Us http://del.icio.us/tag/EastVillage

• Newspaper Publishing crowd if they get their act together z2006-10-29- Curley Hyper Local News

East Village seems dominated by just a couple blogs. I'd add myself but I don't write much that's really local-focused.

• should they partner with others already getting geo data?

  • PlazeS, DopplR

  • any Social Networking or WebLog host that gathers user-[ZipCode] data

• meta: how much of most people's writing is location-focused? Does that matter? Yes probably.

  • if you know general/static [ZipCode] for a writer, then you might be able to scrape content and look up capitalized phrases against a directory of Places ([Yellow Pages]?)...

• maybe tie to events, scrape Calen Dar sites?

notes from Oct'2006

Steven Johnson has just launched Outside In, a GeoTag-based aggregator. Everything seems to point to stuff elsewhere, with apparently no commentary, just first-snippets. Some of the content seems to be auto-scraped, others submitted/tagged by humans.

I think a service like this will eventually need:

• a way to filter (or query) on various tags defining your areas of interest

• filter based on weights of interest and near-ness (we're not only interested in the Hyper Local)

• maybe add a Social Network Context.

Does this really just become a GeoTag Pipe Line feeding other apps?

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