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The EveryBlock Blog
2010-02-08 |
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We've added a new type of information to the EveryBlock cities: commercial real estate listings.
Now, you'll get notified whenever there's a commercial real estate listing near you. It's an intere...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2010-01-12 |
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We've added a new category of information to each EveryBlock city: school reviews.
Using data from GreatSchools, we now point you to recent reviews about schools in your neighborhood. This is simi...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2010-01-07 |
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We're excited today to announce a new feature called "Notify your neighbors" — an easy way to post an announcement to your neighborhood.
For the first two years of our site's existence, we did all...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2010-01-04 |
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We've just launched a redesign of our place pages that helps put a focus on the timeliness of our information.
A fair amount of the news we publish is updated throughout the day — but our previou...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-10-19 |
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We're excited to announce our latest feature: the ability to comment on news items throughout our site.
Now, if you're viewing a piece of neighborhood news on our site and have more information ab...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-10-16 |
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Today we've added a new data type in Boston — calls for service.
If you live in Boston, you'll be notified any time the city publishes information about a street-light that fails or is knocked dow...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-10-14 |
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Today we've launched a new way of diving into EveryBlock's local news: by individual street address.
Previously, the most granular way to view information on our site was by city block, with a one...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-09-25 |
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Today we've added a new data type in San Francisco — calls for service.
If you live in San Francisco, you'll be notified any time the city gets notified about graffiti on private or public propert...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-09-22 |
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We've created our first screencast, a video that shows you how to create and edit a custom location.
Since we launched our custom locations feature a few weeks ago, lots of you have added public c...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-08-28 |
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Where does your neighborhood begin and end?
Does it stretch all the way to Rockwell St., or does it end at Western Ave.? Does it include the bordering cemetery? Does it stop at the railroad trac...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-08-24 |
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A new version of the EveryBlock iPhone app is now available.
Although we've made a number of small tweaks to the app since originally releasing it in April, this is the first major upgrade. Here's...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-08-17 |
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We've got some huge news today: EveryBlock has been acquired by MSNBC.com.
If you've been following along with us, you'll know that we were funded for our first two years by a grant from the Knigh...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-07-15 |
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We've made some updates to our Los Angeles crime data, and the story behind these updates is a good example of the sort of behind-the-scenes work we do at EveryBlock to improve our data sets and ad...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-07-07 |
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Gale Brewer, chair of the Committee on Technology in Government of the New York City Council, has introduced a draft law that would adopt open data sharing standards for the city's government.
At ...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-06-30 |
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Today's a big day for us at EveryBlock. We're making our source code available.
Over the past two years, EveryBlock has been funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation. The purpose of the grant ...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-06-11 |
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We expect this maintenance to take a few hours. We’ll update this post and Twitter when the site is back up. Thanks for your patience.
Update: The maintenance period is over, and the site is back ...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-06-08 |
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Today we're launching beta versions of EveryBlock in four cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit and Houston.
Why the "beta" designation? We got so much demand for these cities in our city expansion pol...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-05-18 |
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Today we're officially launching EveryBlock accounts — our first step at letting you customize the information you see on our site. You can create a free account by clicking the "Register" link in ...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-04-29 |
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We've released an EveryBlock iPhone app, which combines the iPhone location-awareness with EveryBlock's rich assortment of local news. It's available for free now at the App Store.
We've written m...
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The EveryBlock Blog
2009-04-08 |
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We've launched a number of improvements today that help solve two problems: ungeocoded data and inaccurately geocoded data. Some of this is unavoidably technical, but I'll try my best to explain it...
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