Posts FromDecember, 2006

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Dec 06

Contributing to Outside.In and Top Stories

Posted by steven in Development & Features / General — View Comments

We’ve just made it much easier to contribute interesting links or blogs about your neighborhood to outside.in. In our first iteration, you could suggest an interesting story –from a local blogger or a city paper or any other online source — but we were vetting those contributions before they went live on the site. As of this week, we’ve eliminated that filter: you can suggest a link or a blog and it will immediately appear on the site.

Also, for most of the cities we’re covering, you’ll start seeing “Top Stories” listed in the dashboard on the left. These are popular stories from the entire metropolitan area, not just the specific neighborhood you might be zoomed in on.

We’ve got much more in the pipeline, but we want to hear from you. What’s working well for you with the site right now? What needs fixing? What tools would you like to see added to the mix? We’re wrestling with what should be on the welcome screen that new users first encounter — any thoughts on that?

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Dec 06

Waiting for us to come to your area? Try RSS!

Posted by Cory in General / Tips & Tricks — View Comments

Even though outside.in is available in the entire US, if your neighborhood is outside one of the 51 cities that we’re tracking, chances are we may not have made it to your area yet. If that’s the case, or if your neighborhood is in outside.in but we haven’t found much for you yet, consider subcribing to the RSS feed for your neighborhood or zipcode. Just go to http://outside.in/ (like http://outside.in/11215) and click the RSS icon at the top of the posts column.

This is a great way to stay up to date with your neighborhood and to ensure you don’t miss anything when we come to your area. If you have Gmail, you can even see outside.in posts when you check your email. (Of course, all this applies equally to anyone living in one of the over 3000 neighborhoods that we are already tracking.)

If you’re itching to see us come to your area and you have something to share, you can always help us along by contributing a blog or story.

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