If you want more than hyper local news, Yourstreet may be a website worth visiting. Simply type in a city and state, zip code or neighborhood and you get:
- a snippet of news (about 1 sentence) , with a link to the original news source (and full story)
- a map, with those little stick pins, identifying locations of news stories, any user conversations and links to any neighbors who signed up
- news within the last 7, 30 and 90 days
- the ability to add a comment, your profile and your blog.
Yourstreet is pre-wired to give you news supposedly from your computer IP location— mine was off by a couple hundred miles. But it’s a good thought. Yourstreet pulls news not unlike the popular Topix. As with any online search engine, there are wrinkles and buggy results. I typed in NY, NY and got results for Bloomfield, New Jersey and Albany. I then tried my local zip code and got an NFL football injury link to the Charlotte Observer. The page did not exist. Oh well. The site allows you to click “Wrong location?” to help with future accuracy.
What I like about Yourstreet is the neighborhood news feature, the ability to add your profile and your blog to your street. Oh yeah– they left out the lame beta excuse tag.
How to Add Your Blog to Yourstreet
Here’s the lowdown:
Do you write a locally-oriented blog? Adding your content to YourStreet boosts your visibility and drives traffic to your site.
We’ll soon have an automated form to add your blog to our system, but for now simply use the feedback form linked to at the bottom of any page and send us your name and the URL of your blog. That’s all you need to do.
If your blog looks appropriate, we’ll add it to our system. When you publish a new post on your blog it will then automatically be mapped and a brief summary will appear on YourStreet with a link back to your blog.
Yourstreet officially launched today. Good luck fellas. There is a Your Street blog.
h/t Techcrunch.
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Yourstreet seems like an awesome way to get news from the professionals but also from those living in the neighborhood. I really value the “real” opinion of the public so this seems like a solid way to share it.
It has great potential. We wish them well.