Tuesday, August 18. 2009

MSNBC.com Acquires Adrian Holovaty's EveryBlock

The microlocal company and app grew out of a Knight Foundation grant that ended in June 2009 and grew into the epitome of a high tech hyperlocal website. It's framework is open source and uses many open source geospatial tools. The data is fed to the site in as automated a fashion as possible. Further, the team worked with many localities to make data more available to the site and thus other sites. EveryBlock now has sites for 15 cities, four in beta; it slowly and smartly added them a few at at a time over it's year and a half of existence. (Wow, is that all?)

There was no official statement about the terms. AOL bought another hyper local site, Patch, in June for $7 million.

PaidContent reports that the Washington Post is shutting down its hyperlocal standalone site, Loudon Extra.

- EveryBlock Blog

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Geospatial Business at 06:20 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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