Thursday 22 January 2009

Existing Sites

There are a number of sites out there that do parts of what we want to do, but nothing that really ties them together.

Here are some older examples :

neighbournet

communitykit

my neighbourhoods

Here are some cool Facebook widgets:

meet your neighbours

friend plotter

We can use these to integrate peoples friends from facebook enabling 'weak-linked' friends to discover each other in the community and encourage involvement.

Corporate Style:

everyblock.com

This is by far the most informative community portal I have yet to see, but is clearly aimed at the commercial market. We should investigate getting local information feeds, but our focus is on community projects and engaging the youth.

SDBackyard.com

..this looks interesting. I like the idea of working 2-way with local papers (eg. let them add and publish content back into their papers)

http://streetsize.com/

..shouldn't take much effort to do this better!

Rizwan from the Urban Survival Project is keeping an online-volunteering list of links 

Most local websites focus on business searches, as they pay to be in search results. There are lots of good examples and we should get some good ideas from their features!

Please let us know if you know other sites ...

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