PlanetEye

January 24th, 2008

Everyblock Goes Hyperlocal

Mark Evans

Director, Community

By Mark Evans

It’s big world out there with an endless number of places to explore.

While adventures to far flung and exotic places are exciting, there’s plenty to explore just around the corner. At PlanetEye, we’re hoping to meet the needs of people traveling 1,500 miles or 1.5 miles by offering insight from travelers and locals for destinations around the world.

There are a growing number of companies solely focused on the local scene - a trend often described as hyperlocal. A new hyperlocal player is Everyblock, which searches the Web for information from other sites such as Yelp, Flickr, blog posts, Craigslist listings and government databases. It then packages and presents this information so people can get a current, in-depth view of their local scenes.

Everyblock was started by the same entrepreneurs behind chicagocrime.org (a Google Maps mash-up). The service has been launched in three cities - San Francisco, New York City and Chicago.

For more thoughts on Everyblock, check out A VC, who believes hyperlocal sites will be another blow to local newspapers, TechCrunch and the Everyblock blog.

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One Response to “Everyblock Goes Hyperlocal”

1. Kakiage Says:
   February 10th, 2008 at 8:53 am
   

   Dissapointed you’re still thinking in miles - it really limits your audience. Canada is theoretically a metric country. In Japan, where I live, miles mean nothing at all.

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