September 2008
1 post
Suggestion box now open
Today, Local Signal experienced what some would call a spike: http://twitpic.com/9ybm . With that, I’ve realized I need to show a little more care to the site and so wanted to start taking suggestions for sites/feeds, as I can only track down so many, especially for cities I don’t live in.
Please send me your suggestions here:
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August 2008
1 post
Fixed Yelp feeds - the magic of Yahoo Pipes
As noted a couple months ago, the Local Signal aggregator was being blocked by Yelp. I don’t blame them, they are within their rights to do so, even if I didn’t think it was in their best interest. On the plus side, they were responsive and presented a solution which included moving to a dedicated IP and signing some contract. Well, this is a hobby project for now and I didn’t...
June 2008
3 posts
Interesting Places
With the Yelp issue, I thought it would be a good idea to explain the places tab a bit. The “places” tab (see Bend, Oregon’s places for an example) is meant to represent interesting places to check out in the city, be it tourist attractions, local restaurants, businesses and anything else. The primary services, besides Yelp that are used for this tab include Platial, 43 Places,...
Yelp! We've been blocked
Despite the status as a “preview release” which essentially means pre-alpha, and the fact that feeds are aggressively cached to reduce load on the services being aggregated, we’ve already managed to get blocked by Yelp. They do have an API, so it looks like it would be best to migrate to that soon. So, for the time being, no Yelp feeds will be available on each city’s...
Local Signal Updates
Added TripAdvisor and Topix forums for each city.
Corrected spelling of Tucson (was using Tuscon, whoops)
Added more icons throughout