http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ A forum about Hyperlocal en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:16:19 +0000 http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/online-form-filling-job#post-37 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:22:02 +0000 cksolanki80 37@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>100% Legitimate, Genuine &#38; Scam Free Online Ad Posting Jobs. Work at Home in your spare time. No work load, No Time Limit. Massive Income Every Month. Do Online Assignments. Get for per assignment. Maximum Earning per month with guaranteed job agreement. 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Some of them are - taking online surveys, working with some work at home business opportunity companies, buying and reselling products, making money with pay-per-click publishing, earning with affiliate programs, online currency trading, submitting photos etc. One of the most popular ways to earn money online is data entry from home work or type at home jobs. Let us have a look on these data entry from home work as home typists. For more details visit <a href="http://www.thenetjobs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenetjobs.com/</a> </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/how-will-you-cover-the-general-election#post-33 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:54:54 +0000 hyperlocalrob 33@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>There will be a General Election within the next 4 months or so, and for me, like many local site publishers, this will be the first opportunity to give local coverage to an election campaign. In some areas there are council elections on the same day too. I can only imagine there will be a huge increase in the amount of stuff to publish from the various candidates' campaigns. So I thought I would start this post as a space to share ideas, thoughts and questions that may arise from covering an election campaign.</p> <p><strong>Online Q&#38;A</strong><br /> It seems fairly logical to approach candidates and ask if they will take part in questioning. What's best - live chat format or by email? Same questions to all candidates or different? This also creates an opportunity for readers to get involved in submitting questions?</p> <p><strong>Real life hustings</strong><br /> An idea I had was to try and organise a proper, real life hustings between the candidates. This would be a real local service and be a great offline profile raiser for a site too. Could be expensive though, and will need a competent person to run proceedings. Would provide a lot of content for a site and creates opportunity for video / audio content too.</p> <p><strong>Impartiality</strong><br /> What, if any, issues surrounding impartiality will affect hyperlocal publishers?</p> <p><strong>Extremists</strong><br /> We all remember the controversy that surrounded Nick Griffin's appearance on BBC Question Time. If you are reporting on the campaigns of local candidates, will you also include candidates with extreme or controversial views?</p> <p><strong>Advertising</strong><br /> Will local political parties prove to be useful advertisers at the time of an election, and should you start soliciting ads soon? Or better not to alienate readers and steer clear of political ads?</p> <p><strong>Election night</strong><br /> Would you goto the election night count itself (if it is indeed on election night - apparently many places are trying to opt for the following day this time)? </p> <p>Got any thoughts of your own on these topics, or additional ideas and questions to do with covering an election? </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/hyperlocals-re-publishing-council-info-snow-disruptions#post-30 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:39:36 +0000 helenewilliams 30@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hi I am looking for examples of how hyperlocals are using council feeds and data, and spreading the word about service disruptions.</p> <p>Do any local sites automatically republish any council information? E.g. embed jobs feed, news feed, do any mash-ups.</p> <p>In the severe weather, are any hyperlocals publishing disruption information? Retweeting council tweets? Spreading the word to residents in any other way? Feeding anything back to the council?</p> <p>Thanks in anticipation! </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/hyperlocal-domains-for-sale#post-29 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:29:50 +0000 QualityNonsense 29@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hello All,</p> <p>Got a load of hyperlocal domains for sale. Details below:</p> <p>* BecktonPark.com<br /> * BowChurch.com<br /> * FriernBarnet.com<br /> * GipsyHill.com<br /> * TottenhamHale.com<br /> * HendonCentral.com<br /> * NottingHillbillies.com<br /> * CheapoLondon.com<br /> * RoyalBorough.com<br /> * BCNproperty.com<br /> * ChelmsfordProperty.com<br /> * EastSussexProperty.co.uk</p> <p>Interested? Drop me a line <a href="http://www.qualitynonsense.com/contact">here</a>.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Richard </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/hi-from-lichfield#post-25 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:13:43 +0000 philipjohn 25@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hi! I'm Philip John, the geek behind The Lichfield Blog which was set up by a fellow Lichfieldian and ex-journalist back in January 2009.</p> <p>Since then it's gone from strength to strength and we're very much looking forward to the future of hyperlocal. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/new-directory-of-hyperlocal-websites#post-21 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:07:56 +0000 hyperlocalrob 21@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>There's a new directory of local blogs, local websites, local aggregators and local networks at <a href="http://www.nutshell.org.uk" rel="nofollow">www.nutshell.org.uk</a></p> <p>If you run a local website you can submit it through a feedback form. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/court-reports#post-6 Tue, 26 May 2009 11:51:01 +0000 upthejunction 6@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Does anyone know if it's possible to get a feed of local magistrate court reports at all?</p> <p>What I'd like to do is to filter such a feed for entries relating to a particular town/village and use the results in my news section. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/oodle-api-access-to-6m-uk-classifieds#post-24 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:51:06 +0000 dunlopd 24@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Oodle.co.uk is the UK's largest index of classifieds advertisements, indexing not only commercial listings but private party ads as well, providing an unmatched diversity and comprehensiveness.</p> <p>Sites can enhance their own classifieds inventory or launch their own classifieds marketplaces selling everything from Cars to Pets, Tickets to Sports equipment by using our API, details at <a href="http://developer.oodle.com." rel="nofollow">http://developer.oodle.com.</a></p> <p>Its free to use and sites keep 100% of the revenue from the display ads on the pages as well as 50% of the revenues generated from the clicks they generate.</p> <p>Interested - then contact <a href="mailto:duncan@corp.oodle.com">duncan@corp.oodle.com</a> or call Duncan on 0777 926 2121 </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/new-touch-local-api#post-23 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:55:09 +0000 danielm 23@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hi,<br /> My name is Daniel Mermelstein and I am a product manager at business directory touchlocal.com( <a href="http://www.touchlocal.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.touchlocal.com</a> ).<br /> We have just made available an API to our content. Details of our API can be found at <a href="http://www.touchlocal.com/developers" rel="nofollow">http://www.touchlocal.com/developers</a> .<br /> Initially, our API can be used to retrieve business information for category+location searches as well as reviews for those businesses.<br /> It can also be used to retrieve special offers around a given area.<br /> Please have a look and let us know what you think. There is an API discussion forum at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/touchlocal-api/topics." rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/touchlocal-api/topics.</a><br /> Look forward to hearing from you! </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/harrogateorguk#post-22 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:10:42 +0000 hyperlocalrob 22@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Harrogate.org.uk was recently listed on Sedo as having been sold for £1100. Nice price for a geo .org.uk I'd say.</p> <p>Spotted via Acorn Domains<br /> <a href="http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/sold-domains/53894-harrogate-org-uk-1100-a.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/sold-domains/53894-harrogate-org-uk-1100-a.html</a> </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/anyone-know-of-a-mashups-guide#post-19 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:44:01 +0000 RayFromManchester 19@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>I've got loads of geogenerics in the form of Manchester + Keyword, Liverpool + Keyword etc. Its taking too long to develop them using Wordpress and I thought mashups might be the way to go.</p> <p>Any suggestions? </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/maidstonecouk#post-8 Wed, 27 May 2009 09:50:48 +0000 hyperlocalrob 8@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Interesting to see that the domain name Maidstone is up for auction at Sedo.co.uk, and has apparently received a bid already of £5,000.</p> <p>What do you think about the power of prime geo-domains such as this? I've always been a fan of this kind of location domain, and creating a site which is a clear authority site on the local area seems like a good way to win advertising as any local business man gets the name recognition of their town name dot co dot uk even if they don't know much about the web.</p> <p>But on the flip side, sometimes I think that having a site that sounds too official means readers, and other webmasters perhaps, judge you differently from other local bloggers etc.</p> <p>So what do you think of the domain name maidstone.co.uk and its apparent vaulation of at least £5k, and also what do you think of the wider issue of these geo domains? </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/tube-updates-api#post-16 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:02:56 +0000 hyperlocalrob 16@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>There's some nice widgets available from TFL to carry live tube sevice information on websites at <a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/widgets/," rel="nofollow">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/widgets/,</a> but I've just found this API which looks very cool.</p> <p><a href="http://tubeupdates.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tubeupdates.com/</a></p> <p>The guy is scraping the info from TFL and making it available by REST (XMl over HTTP) which means it can used in more flexible ways than just a widget. Nice, I will have a go with it soon. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/greetings-from-manchester#post-10 Fri, 29 May 2009 20:20:56 +0000 RayFromManchester 10@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hi, I'm Ray, from Manchester, England. I have been a domain name investor and amateur website developer for the last 5 or 6 years. </p> <p>About a year ago I became aware of the power of prime geo-domains and geo-domain development and also became aware of hyperlocal domain development which has many similarities to geo-domain development.</p> <p>I am currently developing an events and entertainment geo-site called Manchester Wide. Not sure if it would fit the definition of 'hyperlocal' but still faces many of the issues of hyperlocal site development, such as generating traffic, monetising sites and so on.</p> <p>Great forum idea, but will need a bit of promotion to reach critical mass, I would think. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/west-seattle-blog#post-13 Fri, 29 May 2009 20:41:03 +0000 RayFromManchester 13@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Here is an interview with the owner of a profitable hyperlocal site, West Seattle Blog which I thought was quite interesting..............</p> <p><a href="http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2008/12/26/building-community-around-neighborhood-news-an-interview-with-tracy-record-of-west-seattle-blog-part-1-of-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2008/12/26/building-community-around-neighborhood-news-an-interview-with-tracy-record-of-west-seattle-blog-part-1-of-2/</a></p> <p><a href="http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2008/01/01/monetizing-neighborhood-news-more-from-tracy-record-of-west-seattle-blog-part-2-of-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2008/01/01/monetizing-neighborhood-news-more-from-tracy-record-of-west-seattle-blog-part-2-of-2/</a> </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/some-suggestions#post-11 Fri, 29 May 2009 20:26:50 +0000 RayFromManchester 11@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>There are really only two or three ways of monetising hyperlocal websites. These are on site advertising and establishing a free / premium business directory. Everything else is just a variation on this. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/hello-from-wirral#post-3 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:57:13 +0000 upthejunction 3@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hi There</p> <p>I'm John and I'm a budding hyperlocal fan attempting to make a success of local news publishing. I have a portfolio of <a href="http://www.upthejunction.com/local/">local sites</a> (not all developed) concentrating on the Wirral and northwest.</p> <p>Hoping to share thoughts, tips and ideas. </p> http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/topic/first-post#post-2 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:35:54 +0000 hyperlocalrob 2@http://forum.hyperlocal.co.uk/ <p>Hi - this is the first post to this embryonic forum dedicated to hyperlocal matters. There's conversations happening all over the place about hyperlocal, so this forum might be completely superfluous, but it felt like a useful place to host a discussion.</p> <p>As for me, my name's Rob and I run a few local websites under the Hyperlocal.co.uk banner, most of which you can find listed and linked to at <a href="http://www.hyperlocal.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.hyperlocal.co.uk</a> </p>