Introducing 9Neighbors
For the past few months, Theo and I have had our heads down, working on a new project we call 9Neighbors. Over the last week, we’ve begun to open it to the public.
9Neighbors is a local news aggregation and filtering tool for five Boston towns. We’re very excited about it. We think it’s an excellent way to give users a personalized, relevant feed of information about the communities they live in.
If you live in the Boston area, signup, bang around on it, and send us your thoughts. I think you’re going to find it a very different, very useful site.
9Neighbors evolved out of our earlier work with mapping and geographic data. Through that work it became clear to us that there is an enormous amount of unstructured, unorganized content and data related to places. 9Neighbors aims to organize that content. I posted a bit more about this thought process on my personal blog.
Atlas users out there will be happy to know that while we are now focusing all of our development work on 9Neighbors, we will continue to support Atlas. In fact, Atlas is now getting more traffic than ever. Our most popular map, Rotten Neighbor, was the top search on Yahoo for much of Tuesday and Wednesday.
With the launch of 9Neighbors, we’re making a few blog changes. Beginning after this post, I will move the FM subscriptions to my personal blog. In addition, I’ve set up a new 9Neighbors blog. The Faneuil Media blog and the Atlas Blog will both be available as archives.
