9 posts and columns on hyperlocal

QOTD: A Little Spite Music

I’ve never worked for a company that has been as scrutinized, criticized, and coal-raked as this one. … We have critics on Wall Street, critics in the media, local critics, national critics, the business press, the journalism reviews, bloggers, etc. There are so many that I’ve come to think of them as a single large, screechy, off-key band called BI and the Haters. It’s music to kill yourself by.

– Patch editor in chief Brian Farnham bids farewell to AOL’s network of hyperlocal sites and its critics

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Fwix Unveils Revenue-Sharing Plan for Hyperlocal Bloggers

in News on November 12, 2009 at 7:47 am PT

An online news start-up is going where Google and other giants haven’t: sharing revenue with the people who write the news. Fwix, a one-year-old start-up backed by BlueRun Ventures, is one of a growing number of portals for “hyperlocal” news, a buzzword that refers to sites about schools, culture, gossip and other information on a neighborhood level.

Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor

in News on November 4, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto entrepreneurial talent, Conrad has agreed to become “Special Advisor” to its AOL Ventures Unit. Apparently, he is also mulling a new start-up and remains a VC too.
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