Comments on: Piecing Local Together – Share Your Thoughts http://www.rikinontheweb.com/piecing-local-together-share-your-thoughts A blog about how digital media and the internet are effecting our lives. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:16:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Matt Cheuvront http://www.rikinontheweb.com/piecing-local-together-share-your-thoughts/comment-page-1#comment-273 Matt Cheuvront Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:52:34 +0000 http://www.rikinontheweb.com/?p=540#comment-273 There have been grassroots 'local awareness' endeavors launched in most major cities - 'Nashvillest' is a great example of a provider of local information - daily deals, events, and news. On Twitter they report everything from concerts to breaking news to traffic reports. It's this type of grassroots aggregation of information that is making a name for itself on the social web, providing a one-stop-source of information (so you don't have to waste half your day googling and searching - they do it for you!) There have been grassroots 'local awareness' endeavors launched in most major cities – 'Nashvillest' is a great example of a provider of local information – daily deals, events, and news. On Twitter they report everything from concerts to breaking news to traffic reports. It's this type of grassroots aggregation of information that is making a name for itself on the social web, providing a one-stop-source of information (so you don't have to waste half your day googling and searching – they do it for you!)

]]> By: Matthew http://www.rikinontheweb.com/piecing-local-together-share-your-thoughts/comment-page-1#comment-212 Matthew Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:52:34 +0000 http://www.rikinontheweb.com/?p=540#comment-212 There have been grassroots 'local awareness' endeavors launched in most major cities - 'Nashvillest' is a great example of a provider of local information - daily deals, events, and news. On Twitter they report everything from concerts to breaking news to traffic reports. It's this type of grassroots aggregation of information that is making a name for itself on the social web, providing a one-stop-source of information (so you don't have to waste half your day googling and searching - they do it for you!) There have been grassroots 'local awareness' endeavors launched in most major cities – 'Nashvillest' is a great example of a provider of local information – daily deals, events, and news. On Twitter they report everything from concerts to breaking news to traffic reports. It's this type of grassroots aggregation of information that is making a name for itself on the social web, providing a one-stop-source of information (so you don't have to waste half your day googling and searching – they do it for you!)

]]> By: kareemk http://www.rikinontheweb.com/piecing-local-together-share-your-thoughts/comment-page-1#comment-211 kareemk Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:21:22 +0000 http://www.rikinontheweb.com/?p=540#comment-211 With respect to looking for things to do, through our user testing, we've found that most people spend up to an hour searching for things to do online and they generally start their search on google and triangulate the information on different sites before making a decision on whether to go to one place or another. Context is very important. <br><br>This echos my personal behavior. I'll want to read about an event on flavorpill, on the venue's site and read about the location on yelp and new york mag before I make a final decision. Now if only there was a service that aggregated all that information on one page...:) With respect to looking for things to do, through our user testing, we've found that most people spend up to an hour searching for things to do online and they generally start their search on google and triangulate the information on different sites before making a decision on whether to go to one place or another. Context is very important.

This echos my personal behavior. I'll want to read about an event on flavorpill, on the venue's site and read about the location on yelp and new york mag before I make a final decision. Now if only there was a service that aggregated all that information on one page…:)

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