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Do it: More about Everyblock

Published on 21/02/08
by Zac Echola

I’m taking a bit of a cue from my micro-blog with this short post, but Everyblock’s Paul Smith has an interesting post up on why they decided to create their own maps. Rex Sorgatz has a great interview with Everyblock’s Holovaty if you haven’t read it yet.

Web teams and especially their publishers need to start thinking about raw data as useful content, instead of simply data from newspapers (i.e. photos and text) as content.

Something like Everyblock could be monetized on a micro level very easily (think lots of small dollars), and with an integration that would be super useful (rather than simply annoying) from a user perspective. Think if you could integrate a LJWorld style marketplace with super local user generated content streams, your own classifieds, your own news items (particularly crime) and government data sources. Maps and freely available data could be the pivot point for all your other content.

Now that’s completely rethinking how news works.

The end. Or is it?

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