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- MSNBC.com Buys Hyperlocal Startup EveryBlock
- MSNBC Interactive is making a hyperlocal push, with the purchase of EveryBlock, which offers updates culled from public records—like 911 dispatches—and news sources in 15 cities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but likely in the low single digit millions. Until last month the startup was supported...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Interview: MSNBC.com Likely Will Add EveryBlock Feeds To Its Local Section In 'Next Few Months'
- One question in the wake of MSNBC Interactive’s purchase of EveryBlock is how MSNBC.com will integrate EveryBlock’s hyperlocal news feeds with its site. In an interview this afternoon, MSNBC.com president Charles Tillinghast told us that EveryBlock feeds would be added to the local news sections of MSNBC.com “probably in...
- External links 2009-08-17
- The Problems With EveryBlock
- Like it or not, hyperlocal is one of the buzzphrases in online news these days, and the site of the moment is EveryBlock.com. Founded two years ago, it was sold last week to MSNBC Interactive. Unlike other sites that provide their own local news, EveryBlock, which operates in 15...
- External links 2009-08-26
- New Media Tools Go Beyond "Multimedia"
- In addition to the text, video, and audio files that are the main components of "multimedia" content on most websites, there are a growing number of creative tools for displaying data in completely new ways. One of the earliest, WeFeelFine.org, which launched a couple years back, probably would not strike...
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Hyper-Local, Geocoded Sites Need Community Input
- New York, N.Y. If you've tried out any of the various geocoded, hyper-local media services, you've probably noticed that their data is still fragmentary and not always accurate. The problem is not with the geocoding technology itself, which as long as it is within range of the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- EveryBlock Opens its Code, Seeks a Business Model
- EveryBlock.com, the hyperlocal project created by Adrian Holovaty with funding from the Knight News Challenge Grant, has released all of its code as of this month, as required under the terms of the grant. "We've reached an interesting point in our project's growth," Holovaty wrote on his personal blog, "We're...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Newspapers Lose Out As MSNBC.com Snaps Up EveryBlock
- (Note: This post has been updated. In the earlier version I neglected to clarify that EveryBlock was bought by MSNBC.com, not MSNBC.-- DW) Over a decade ago now, the newspaper industry had its "Craigslist moment," when the profitable classified ad piece of its business model started to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
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- MSNBC.com Acquires Hyperlocal News Site EveryBlock
- MSNBC.com just announced that it has acquired EveryBlock, a 'hyperlocal' news and information site that has been publishing data for 16 American cities for the last two years. EveryBlock aggregates local news stories, but it also makes publicly available information like data about restaurant inspections and crimes available in an...
- News items 2009-08-17
- More Local Heat: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock for Several Million Dollars [BoomTown]
- It looks like the local market is heating up even more, with MSNBC.com announcing the acquisition of Chicago-based EveryBlock. MSNBC.com–a joint venture of Microsoft MSFT and GE GE unit NBC Universal–paid several million dollars for the "hyper-local" information site, which is up and running in 15 cities, including New York,...
- News items 2009-08-18
- msnbc.com Walks Down EveryBlock
- msnbc.com announced Monday that it acquired Chicago-based Website EveryBlock, which provides news and information "down to the neighborhood level" in 15 cities. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. msnbc.com said EveryBlock will continue as an independent brand, adding that the sites allow users to enter their addresses, neighborhood names...
- News items 2009-08-17
- EveryBlock: A New Model for Local News?
- Most Mondays, we're confronted with another barrage of bad news for the newspaper industry, but not today. Nielsen Online is out with a new report that eight of the ten largest newspaper websites are showing double-digit growth in traffic. But, first, to one of the most exciting...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- 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 the Knight Foundation, which ended in June. The five employees will...
- News items 2009-08-17
- MSNBC Acquires Hyperlocal News Aggregator EveryBlock
- Erick Schonfeld submits: 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 Monday MSNBC acquired EveryBlock. EveryBlock was previously funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, which...
- External links 2009-08-17
- @ONA09: Next 'Everyblock' May Be Paying Something Back Besides Open Source
- If Everyblock had been funded by VC money when it was sold to MSNBC in August for an undisclosed amount, the investors would have seen a return on their investment. But Adrian Holovaty’s startup was funded through the $25 million Knight News Challenge—and the only requirement was that code...
- External links 2009-10-04
- How Do You Define Hyperlocal?
- When the MSNBC acquisition of EveryBlock popped Monday, just about everyone—paidContent included—quickly added “hyperlocal” as the key description. But it’s a term founder and new MSNBC employee Adrian Holovaty has actively disavowed in the past—and one the MSNBC announcement avoided, opting instead for “innovative local site” that “goes...
- External links 2009-08-18
- NYTimes.com Goes Hyper-Local, Too
- A couple weeks back, we reported on the deal between NBC and Outside.in to provide hyper-local coverage in New York and other cities where the network has affiliated stations. Today comes news that The New York Times has launched a similar deal with another of our favorite...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Knight Foundation May Require Paybacks by Startups
- When the hyper-local platform EveryBlock.com was acquired by MSNBC.com in August for what was reportedly a "multi-million" pricetag, one aspect of the deal that piqued the curiosity of those of us with backgrounds in non-profit media was how the Knight Foundation, which had seeded EveryBlock with a $1.1 million grant,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- All News is Local in the Global Village
- We've looked at Topix and we've looked at EveryBlock. We've examined the efforts by the Hartford Courant, among others. Tomorrow, we'll look at another hyper-local news resource, called Outside:In. But today, I want to establish from the perspective of a media executive the business rationale for this...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Geo-Coded Twitter + Hyper-Local Media = CoolBiz Model
- The San Francisco Street Food Festival today brought together "micro-entrepreneurs, informal food vendors and renowned chefs" in a celebration of street food and the entrepreneurial spirit, both of which are alive and thriving in this town, even in the midst of (in fact, partly due to) a prolonged recession. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-22
- Will Hyperlocal Ever Scale? One Entrepreneur's Story
- Justin Carder is the VP of business development for Instivate, maker of the Neighborlogs publishing system for local news sites, and is also the founder and owner of the Seattle neighborhood blog CapitolHillSeattle.com. Previously, he worked for MSNBC, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Marchex. He’s reachable at justin@instivate.com.Stuffed in a...
- External links 2009-10-06
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