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May 5
2010

Trulia Asks: What Do You Think of This Neighborhood?

Real estate and rental agents get into big trouble if they mouth off about a neighborhood’s quality of life issues. The most they can do is point to web sites that provide some general stats (i.e. school info, crime stats and market trends). Now Trulia is getting deeper, a la user generated content. Three weeks …continue reading »

Categories: Misc, Social Media, Verticals

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May 4
2010

NY-Area’s ‘Main Street Connect’ Takes Aim at Hyperlocal (Too)

When it comes to hyperlocal, the problem may just be that the local reporting doesn’t reasonate with the community as much as the old community papers did. That’s the feeling behind Main Street Connect, a new company launched by a team that includes community newspaper publishing vet Carll Tucker; his wife, financial columnist Jane Bryant …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Newspapers

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May 3
2010

Topix Evolves: A Conversation with CEO Chris Tolles

News aggregation is being approached in every which way,. driven by the long tail possibilities of search optimization, and less and less local output from newspapers, TV and radio. The content creator sites, hyper local sites, blog aggregators and portals have also been aggressively pursuing aggregation of local content (including Fwix, which we profiled last …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal

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