Most of the hyperlocal sites focus exclusively on a community in a tight geographic area.
Paid Content makes a good case that hyperlocal might work on paper more than the real world.
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In particular, that is when a significant number of Patch hyperlocal sites are projected to become profitable.
But a relatively new crop of "hyperlocal" news sites is growing into the void left by failing news organizations.
Generally, the people who run hyperlocal Web sites say they are optimistic about the future of the news business.
Meanwhile, other big media conglomerates are reconsidering the size of the hyperlocal opportunity.
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Armstrong and his team offered a little insight into ongoing changes at the hyperlocal network Patch, but just a little.
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Hyperlocal sites tend to get a chunk of money from nonprofit organizations, some revenue from ads and some money from readers.
Founders of hyperlocal sites say they're trying to serve a civic purpose.
Omidyar wrote of his admiration for Jobs last night in a post on Honolulu Civil Beat, the hyperlocal news site he publishes.
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And I got a good lesson in hyperlocal journalism when I entered the Dunn County News as the editor nearly 20 years ago.
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The new Netatmo Urban Weather Station for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch promises to help you track and monitor your hyperlocal weather.
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C. he has stood on street corners passing out free copies of his Examiner newspapers (he also owns Examiner.com, hyperlocal dispatches by hundreds of journalists).
Once you've shared your hyperlocal weather report, check out what people nearby or in different parts of the city are experiencing, maybe start following your favorites.
The analysts are particularly bullish on Project Devil, a new ad format intended to lure premium brand advertising from TV to print, and Patch, the hyperlocal venture.
By refining geo-location, deeply integrating social media and presenting it all with a transmedia-inspired interface the weather gets closer to being what it always needed to be, hyperlocal.
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Jane McDonnell, executive director of the Online News Association, said the hyperlocal movement places emphasis on community news that's written by volunteers who usually are entrenched in their neighborhoods.
Hyperlocal news sites regard Groupon and other daily deal services with a mixture of love (for flooding their coffers with ad dollars) and dread (for competing with their own deal offerings).
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Software will make hyperlocal content possible and even profitable.
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That point was driven home to Patch, the network of hyperlocal news sites owned by AOL, when a contributor to its Fair Lawn, New Jersey site was arrested last week on charges of stalking.
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Groupon is getting even more scrutiny than usual this week thanks to its IPO roadshow, and it was the subject of much discussion at the Street Fight Summit on hyperlocal media Tuesday morning.
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Realizing, belatedly, that Albritton is on the verge of doing to it in local news what it already did to it in political news, the Post is reportedly exploring a major hyperlocal venture of its own.
The site is engaging with a community on a hyperlocal level through the types of stories it publishes and engaging with readers directly, giving them a chance to interact with content through multimedia and the Park Bench section.
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Meanwhile, Patch, the network of more than 800 hyperlocal news sites also overseen by AOL editor in chief Arianna Huffington, is also soliciting adolescent contributors from high schools and even middle schools as it seeks to recruit thousands of community bloggers.
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