Comments on: Steven Johnson Launches Outside.in http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=steven_johnson_launches_outsidein Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: ohlocal http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13118 ohlocal Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:52:20 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13118 <p>OhLocal.com is dedicated to serve local posting based on zip code.</p> OhLocal.com is dedicated to serve local posting based on zip code.

]]> By: Luistxo http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13117 Luistxo Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:15:45 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13117 <p>As Dreadsword says geotagging is not a mass sport, as compared with photo tagging, but there's a niche, certainly, and word-of-mouth can make a site blossom modestly: Tagzania has grown that way. Outside.in's approach is different, editorial work defines the places to follow, then venues and addresses there are parsed. I think that, at the end, there's a much greater <em>long tail</em> of geographic content out there, than the limited universe of X US cities as followed by Y detected bloggers, and the strategy of letting users geotagging their own stuff (more the approach of Tagzania, BR and others) may be more sustainable.</p> As Dreadsword says geotagging is not a mass sport, as compared with photo tagging, but there’s a niche, certainly, and word-of-mouth can make a site blossom modestly: Tagzania has grown that way. Outside.in’s approach is different, editorial work defines the places to follow, then venues and addresses there are parsed. I think that, at the end, there’s a much greater long tail of geographic content out there, than the limited universe of X US cities as followed by Y detected bloggers, and the strategy of letting users geotagging their own stuff (more the approach of Tagzania, BR and others) may be more sustainable.

]]> By: dreadsword http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13116 dreadsword Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:03:07 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13116 <p>Blockrocker.com has been doing something similar to this for a while, but based on user tagged content - it maps events, photos, classifieds, blog posts, youtube videos, wikipedia pages, delicious tags, etc - down to the street level. Zoom in on your neighborhood, and you get an experience that sounds similar to what outside in is describing. BR, however, is content-light - there aren't that many people out there that car enough about local level stuff to actively geotag their blog posts and del.icio.us links for instance.</p> <p>I had hoped, for example, that people would geotag their delicious links for reviews of restaurants they enjoyed. The hoped for active userbase has failed to materialize however - perhaps because the site has never been promoted, perhaps because geotagging is very niche-y.</p> <p>Oh well - good luck to Outside.in.</p> Blockrocker.com has been doing something similar to this for a while, but based on user tagged content – it maps events, photos, classifieds, blog posts, youtube videos, wikipedia pages, delicious tags, etc – down to the street level. Zoom in on your neighborhood, and you get an experience that sounds similar to what outside in is describing. BR, however, is content-light – there aren’t that many people out there that car enough about local level stuff to actively geotag their blog posts and del.icio.us links for instance.

I had hoped, for example, that people would geotag their delicious links for reviews of restaurants they enjoyed. The hoped for active userbase has failed to materialize however – perhaps because the site has never been promoted, perhaps because geotagging is very niche-y.

Oh well – good luck to Outside.in.

]]> By: Chetan http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13115 Chetan Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:22:47 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/10/steven_johnson_launches_outsidein.php#comment-13115 <p>Outside.In name is misleading as ".IN" domains tell you that it's a website for India.</p> Outside.In name is misleading as “.IN” domains tell you that it’s a website for India.

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