Mashable: Hyperlocal News Source EveryBlock Relaunches As Community Site
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 17:23
"EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site acquired by msnbc.com in August 2009, unveiled a new version Monday designed to encourage conversation and collaboration among neighbors."
The EveryBlock Blog: New feature: custom locations
Friday, 28 August 2009, 18:57
"[T]he boundaries of a neighborhood don't necessarily correspond to the boundaries of the area you're interested in … [W]e've decided to address this problem once and for all, and we're incredibly excited about our new approach. Today, we're launching a feature that puts the control of geographic boundaries in your own hands."
paidContent: The Problems With EveryBlock
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 16:56
"in its current state, EveryBlock works better as an add-on—a place I might want to turn to if I’ve already seen the local headlines for my neighborhood. Perhaps that’s why the MSNBC Interactive acquisition is so important, since the company has indicated that it will couple EveryBlock updates with the local sections of MSNBC.com."
Crain’s Chicago Business: EveryBlock’s Holovaty: MSNBC.com ‘gets it’
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 22:35
Adrian Holovaty: "MSNBC.com is a good cultural fit for us, because it has a history of bold experimentation in online journalism, design and user experience. I've been pretty impressed with basic (but important) things like their site design over the years, plus database projects such as their national bridge inspections database. You can tell these aren't the woe-is-me news execs whose answer to the future of news is to put a paywall around their content. These guys get it."
New York Times: Bits Blog: MSNBC.com Acquires Everyblock, a Hyperlocal News Start-up
Monday, 17 August 2009, 22:06
"Charlie Tillinghast, president of MSNBC.com … said MSNBC.com would consider “sharing” Everyblock data with other news sites, particularly troubled newspapers. “We do not see it in our interest at all for local newspapers to be weakened. 'It’s a very difficult vacuum to fill without them,' he said."
Holovaty.com: EveryBlock acquisition and me
Monday, 17 August 2009, 22:04
Adrian Holovaty: "EveryBlock, the project I've led for the last two years, has been acquired by MSNBC.com. … this has no effect on the EveryBlock open-source code (ebcode). The code as released on June 30 will continue to be available."
Mike Davidson: Msnbc.com Acquires EveryBlock… Welcome Brother!
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:57
Newsvine's Mike Davidson: "Although building technologies and services for msnbc.com has slowed our development efforts on newsvine.com a bit, for the time being, Newsvine now serves over 4 million uniques a month; almost four times the traffic we did, pre-acquisition. We’re also distributing more revenue to our great community of writers than ever before."
The EveryBlock Blog: MSNBC.com acquires EveryBlock
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:53
"MSNBC.com has hired our whole team, and they've made it clear to us that we'll be driving the site's strategy and implementation, and that our site will remain an independent destination as a community service. … Second, it means that we'll have resources to expand EveryBlock profoundly. MSNBC.com is the most-visited news Web site in the U.S. and is in solid financial shape in a time when news organizations around the world are struggling."
Reflections of a Newsosaur: How did newspapers lose Everyblock?
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:46
Alan Mutter: "The fact that the leading hyperlocal website was snatched up by a multimedia partnership operated by NBC and Microsoft shows a dismaying lack of imagination, foresight and, perhaps, economic resources on the part of the companies operating the nation’s struggling newspapers."
O’Reilly Radar: Data Is Journalism: MSNBC Acquires Everyblock
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:44
"Everyblock, Adrian Holovaty's local data aggregator, has been acquired by MSNBC. … The future of news is data and Everyblock is the premier startup in this area. … Everyblock has proven that by taking free local government data sources and making them readily available to interested citizens you can create value."
Techcrunch: MSNBC Picks Up Hyperlocal News Aggregator EveryBlock
Monday, 17 August 2009, 21:41
"The price was not disclosed, but like the Patch acquisition [by AOL], it is not an audience acquisition. Rather it is a hyperlocal platform play which MSNBC can now plug into its site and push in a major way."
Poynter Online: How EveryBlock Code is Being Used to Develop Location-Based Journalism
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 10:02
"Over and over again, the growing importance of location awareness in journalism — the ability to connect the events of the day to a particular spot on the planet — was mentioned, along with EveryBlock's role in paving the way for more news organizations to deliver news by location."
EveryBlock Blog: EveryBlock source code released
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 07:55
"Today's a big day for us at EveryBlock. We're making our source code available. … But what about EveryBlock.com proper, now that the grant period is over? We've put a lot of love into this project over the past two years, and we're going to continue operating the site as a private company."
The EveryBlock source code
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 07:15
"EveryBlock.com is an experimental news Web site that provides information at a 'microlocal' level — by neighborhood or city block. It was funded by a grant from Knight Foundation, which requires the site's backend code to be open-sourced. Here is the code."
