A number of you had written in to request RSS feeds for our neighborhood content. Your wish is our command. As of yesterday, just about every view can be read as an RSS feed — just click on the little icon above the column of posts and you’re set. Here’s the really cool party: this applies both for topic filters and geographic views, so you can create a RSS feed for any number of specific categories: real estate open houses within two miles of your neighborhood; crime in your own zip code, etc. If you’re interested in a zipcode or neighborhood that we don’t have any information for yet, set up an RSS feed for it and when posts start to appear, they’ll show up in your reader.
Posts FromOctober, 2006
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Oct 06
Oct 06
Blog Submissions
We’ve received quite a response since launching yesterday. Many of you are pretty excited about contributing to outside.in to make it an even better tool for your area. Great! A few of you have pointed out that the blog submission link isn’t available on the site yet.
We are working right now on creating a blog submission tool that is as streamlined and easy to use as the link submission tool (login required). In the meantime, if you have a blog, or know of a blog, that would be a good addition to a corner of outside.in, please let us know the old fashioned way: send an email to blogs@outside.in. Please include the neighborhoods or zip codes that the blog’s posts have to do with. If you’d like to include a short description of the site, too, that will help us include it even faster.
We’ll let you know here when the blog submission tool is back online.
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Oct 06
Outside.In Launch and Welcome
Welcome to outside.in! We hope you enjoy the site and find things of interest to you here. Please keep in mind as you explore that the site is still very alpha, having just been completed this morning after a mad dash to the finish line on the part of our programmers over the past four days. If you find anything that doesn’t seem right, please let us know at bugs@outside.in and we’ll fix it as quickly as possible.
At the moment, the site’s focus is limited to neighborhoods in the United States. We have already begun the groundwork for bringing outside.in to Canada, the UK and Australia and should have those countries up and running soon. We will update you on developements in this matter here on the blog.
Also, bear in mind that what you see today is just an outline of what we intend to grow the site into. In the coming days and weeks we will be unveiling many additional features. First and foremost we’re going to get our submission queue for suggested links and blogs up and running. We’re also working on a content ratings system for users, feedback systems, expanded user visibility on the site, and a host of other ideas as well.
This blog will be the spot where announcements are made regarding these developments, so check back often. It should also serve as a place where you, the visitor, can add input on what we’re doing right or wrong, send us ideas, and generally get involved in the development of the site. As such, feel free to post comments here as often as you like.
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Oct 06
outside.in launched
As of 11am EST on Tuesday, October 24th, outside.in is now open for all the world to see, play with, use, discover. Go out there and find the conversations going on in your neighborhoods!
