EveryBlock’s iPhone app -from Everyblock
If you live in an EveryBlock city and have an iPhone you can now have more news access than you ever thought you needed. The app is available for free at the App Store.
Here’s how Everyblock explains the features of the app: The EveryBlock iPhone app lets you explore news that’s happened recently in your immediate area. We publish dozens of different categories of local news, drawing from hundreds of sources. Much of it is updated every single day. Examples of the information we publish:
- Business licenses (new businesses in your neighborhood)
- Crime
- Fire alerts
- Foreclosures
- Local deals / coupons
- Locations in the media (places in your neighborhood that have been mentioned in the news and in blogs)
- Real estate listings
- Restaurant inspection results
- Get recent health inspection reports for restaurants nearby
- See which crimes have been reported on the street you’re walking down
- Find out what places in your neighborhood have been covered in the news
- Get a sense for property values in your area
Google Maps is becoming more and more powerful by the day as users learn how to manipulate the powerful mapping software. Listing your business for free with Google Maps is a simple no brainer, Must-Do for business owners. That’s free advertising, sorry newspapers. And now Google maps are being used with increasing regularity as powerful news visualization tools. Below is a dynamic Swine Flu map created by a computer scientist from the UK and helped by contributions from 45+ others around the world. The data used is timely and cited, leaving little to no room to question the accuracy and veracity of the map’s utility.
View 2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak Map in a larger map
What does this mean for established news media?
- It means that 17million people now have a free source of local news. Don’t think they will use it? The app store has recorded over 800Million Downloads!
- It means that in the 6 days since the swine flu map was created it has been viewed over 1,350,000 times.
- It means that influential people like Warren Buffett Wouldn’t Buy a Newspaper At Any Price!
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