Comments on: BreakingNYCNews.com – “Instant time” hyperlocal news

By: Hyperlocal news sites worth following « Christopher Wink

Hyperlocal news sites worth following « Christopher Wink — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:32:38 +0000

[...] also the Breaking News aggregation of Twitter feeds from some users in certain cities. The Bakersfield Voice has been noted for its use of the Web and [...]

By: What’s Missing from Today’s Hyperlocal Sites - Community Leaders at Media Transparent

Fri, 08 May 2009 05:45:38 +0000

[...] Breaking News City sites that aggregate local Twitter feeds across various categories are being developed in cities across the country by individuals, and groups like chambers of commerces, who are hubs of their communities. They invest their time to create a useful hyperlocal community site by providing local Twitterers a venue to gain exposure in the community. There’s energy in facilitating the community conversation that “national” sites like Topix and CitySearch don’t have. [...]

By: BreakingNews: Instant Hyperlocal News Via Twitter

BreakingNews: Instant Hyperlocal News Via Twitter — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:02:56 +0000

[...] Get all the news on MediaTransparent. [...]

By: Pat Kitano

Pat Kitano — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:13:01 +0000

We aren’t concerned over controlling a brand domain name. We developed the idea under the ning model where the template could be used, altered and customized to fit the needs of the user. The template product becomes more valuable because the user owns the product, its development and the underlying domain.

By: Dan T.

Dan T. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:51:28 +0000

If you’re creating a whole family of breaking news sites, it would make more logical sense to get one good base domain (like breakingnews.com, for instance) and then create unlimited subdomains within it (nyc.breakingnews.com, la.breakingnews.com, peoria.breakingnews.com, poughkeepsie.breakingnews.com, ad infinitum). Everybody these days seems to think they have to register separate domains for each subsite, which is wasteful and can be cybersquatted by others if you don’t grab every possible permutation.