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Lampertina bookmarked on 2009-02-03 everyblock local_news business_model open_source adrian_holovaty

Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Radar) ponders Adrian Holovaty's announcement that Everyblock will be opensource/ available. Some interesting comment responses.

  • Everyblock was funded through a Knight News Challenge Grant and they've come crossroads as Adrian explains:


    But now we've reached an interesting point in our project's growth: our grant ends on June 30, and, under the terms of our grant, we're open-sourcing the EveryBlock publishing system so that anybody will be able to take the code to create similar sites. That's a Good Thing, in that EveryBlock's philosophies and tools will have the opportunity to spread around the world much faster than we could have done on our own, but it puts the six of us EveryBlockers in an odd spot. How do we sustain our project if our code is free to the world?


    What do you think? How can they keep the project alive and perhaps even make it profitable if they are providing development resources to the competition?

This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 30 Jan 2009, by Andy Kaplan-Myrth.

  • 03 Jul 09
    takuya514
    Takuya Homma
  • 03 Feb 09
    la_ligne
    La Ligne

    • Does anyone have any reaction to the idea that data from EveryBlock could be turned into an appropriately designed PDF and syndicated to Print newspapers to fill their news hole?





      I'm a Print evangelist who loves the tech, but suffers from the "to a hammer, everything looks like a nail" problem.

  • hubertguillaud
    hubert guillaud

    EveryBlock - http://www.everyblock.com -, le site américain qui agrége des données locales, va devenir open source, annonce son fondateur Adrian Holovaty - http://www.holovaty.com/writing/everyblock-future -, du fait de l'accord qui lie les fondateurs au

    internetactu2net internetactu la27eregion weblocal for for:27region local

  • lampertina
    Yule Heibel

    Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Radar) ponders Adrian Holovaty's announcement that Everyblock will be opensource/ available. Some interesting comment responses.

    everyblock local_news business_model open_source adrian_holovaty

    • Everyblock was funded through a Knight News Challenge Grant and they've come crossroads as Adrian explains:


      But now we've reached an interesting point in our project's growth: our grant ends on June 30, and, under the terms of our grant, we're open-sourcing the EveryBlock publishing system so that anybody will be able to take the code to create similar sites. That's a Good Thing, in that EveryBlock's philosophies and tools will have the opportunity to spread around the world much faster than we could have done on our own, but it puts the six of us EveryBlockers in an odd spot. How do we sustain our project if our code is free to the world?


      What do you think? How can they keep the project alive and perhaps even make it profitable if they are providing development resources to the competition?

  • 30 Jan 09
    kaplanmyrth
    Andy Kaplan-Myrth

    This morning Adrian Holovaty announced that he will be open sourcing Everyblock. Everyblock is a site that crawls local data sources, aggregates the data, and then surfaces them geographically. For instance I get an email everyday that alerts me to news, fire department activity, health notices and flickr photos taken within blocks of my house. Everyblock is available in...

    adrianholovaty everyblock geo

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