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Posts FromSeptember, 2008
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Sep 08
Sep 08
Radar Email Alerts. New!
We’re happy to announce that you can now opt to receive email alerts for your Radar. You’ll get an email anytime someone publishes news happening within 1,000 feet of your selected location, or about any topic or favorite place you’ve added to your Radar.
How To Activate Radar Email Alerts:
- Go to outside.in/radar
- Sign into your neighbor account
- Click the “Alerts: Off” button in the upper right hand corner
- Select “Immediately”
- The button should now say “Alerts: On”
- Kick back and enjoy the knowledge that if anything important happens down the street, you’ll won’t even have to leave your computer to find out about it.
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Sep 08
Sep 08
Blogiology 101: Intro to Boston Blogs
If you know us, you know we’re…well, nerds. We love data. Because we aggregate content from thousands of sources in tens of thousands of local markets, we have lots of it to play with.
This is the first in a series of posts where we select a city to explore, crunch the numbers, and share the results with you. Wonder who are the city’s top bloggers? Which neighborhoods have the most buzz? What stories captured residents’ attention last week?
Well, wonder no more because Outside.in’s Department of Blogiology is now open.
This week, we explore Boston, land of the defending world champion Red Sox, top notch universities, and one of the bloggiest cities in the U.S. 
BOSTON
Bloggiest Neighborhoods:
Top Blogs:
Up and Coming Blogs (in no particular order)
Most Talked About Stories:
- Student Balcony Accident
- Police Commissioner Chases Down a Shoplifter
- Tobacco Ban
- Pedestrian Falls by Charles F. Hurley Building
Have your own Boston top 5? Tell us about it. Leave a note in the comments section.
Methodology: Our rankings track local buzz by analyzing a mix of variables including: total number of posts, location of posts, links from other sites in the community, and feedback from Outside.in members. Bloggiest Neighborhoods/Top Blogs, past 30 days; Most Talked About Stories, past 7 days.
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Sep 08
Sep 08
That’s So Tweet
Did you know that Outside.in’s Radar can now capture Twitter tweets?
Your local Twitter messages become a valuable broadcast to your neighbors within 1000 feet. You can think of your rave review of a new coffee shop or your report on a long line for a new movie as a mini blog post.
In order to have your tweet show up on your neighbors’ Radar, you’ll need to include either the name of the place you’re writing about and the neighborhood name, or just the neighborhood name:
Grabbing a most delicious slice at Ian’s Pizza in Wrigleyville
or Just saw John Malkovich biking down the Santa Monica promenade. Whoa!
(note: only tweets with a neighborhood show up, not those occasional “IRM WASTED” posts).
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/outsidein
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Sep 08
Sep 08
We Need Your Vote!
Outside.in has been selected as a top 3 finalist for Website Excellence in the News category by OMMA. Our competition? No less than Condenet and the New York Times!
http://www.mediapost.com/ommaawards/gateway.cfm?ip=finalists
We need your vote!
This year OMMA started a new Member’s Voice category, where your vote can earn us that much coveted mantel decor.
How to vote:
- Follow this link: http://www.mediapost.com/ommaawards/gateway.cfm?ip=memberVote&topLevel=wx
- Register with Mediapost (a long, but ultimately rewarding, process)
- Check Outside.in. We’re 11th down the list.
Polls close next Tuesday, September 9th. Winners will be announced during Advertising week, on Sept 18th.
Show your love for Outside.in. Vote early! Vote Often! Just kidding about that second part, but do spread the word to your friends, co-workers, and family. Because every vote counts.
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Sep 08
Sep 08
Locly App Features Outside.in
Over the past two years, we’ve compiled a rather large database of local expertise: millions of stories and discussion posts collected from thousands of feeds, and growing. We figured its about time to share this pile of content. As a precursor to our upcoming API, we’ve teamed up with several developers looking to integrate hyperlocal content into their own apps.
Locly, an iPhone app that shows useful info based on your GPS location, was first to start using the Outside.in data. Locly also displays info from Wikipedia articles, nearby Flickr images, Twitters tweets, and local events from eventful.
You can find and download Locly from the iPhone App Store. It’s free.
How does Locly pull in Outside.in news you ask?
All of Outside.in’s City, Neighborhood, and Place pages broadcast an RSS feed, making it very simple for a blog, a news site, or any application to bring our data into its platform. For now, if you subscribe to our feed, it’s up to you to customize the presentation, adjust it to best suit your site or application, and if you would be so kind, contact us.
Also, we’re working on opening up an API to let developers build with our data, so if you have any ideas, thoughts or comments, please leave them below.
Are you currently working on a phone app? Tell us about it.
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Sep 08
Sep 08
Follow Gustav News & Discussions Here
If you’re looking for the latest updates from local bloggers in and around the Gulf Coast, check out this page:
http://outside.in/New_Orleans_LA/tags/gustav
or
Subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking this.
