Mibazaar local news and map mashup |
Just throw in your zip code (or a zip code to a big town near you) and then Mibazaar will show you where it is on the map and local news from that area.
This web app mashes Yahoo Geocoding + Google News RSS Feeds and displays Yahoo Publishing Network ads. Kind of interesting. Too bad it doesn’t remember your zip code on return visits or try to parse your IP address and come up with a nearby zip code. Maybe a future version will offer these features.
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Hmm. My zip only came up with one item of news from our island. The rest was from across the Sound. Maybe there just isn’t that much going on over here.
Comment by Sterling Camden — April 14, 2006 @ 2:44 pm PST
[…] Why should anybody subscribe to print newspapers any more? Local news? Nope. Sports? Nope. Classifieds? Craigslist and eBay. Sunday comics? Ok, maybe, but there’s plenty of comics and cartoons online. Coupons? This might be the only logical reason left, at least that I can think of, but can enough coupons be clipped and used to save the cost of the paper? Sentimental value could be another reason. […]
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