+ like the design + LOVE the domain & name + clear and simple sign ups - Twitter only - USA only - nearlies != near.ly

Looks cool but why does it have to use twitter? Why can't I just get an RSS feed, or emails?

I was thinking about that too. It seems that in some ways, Twitter has already become what RSS has been trying to become for years. It's much easier for people to understand "following someone on twitter" than it is for them to understand "subscribing to an RSS feed in an aggregator."

Obviously there are some pretty big differences in the purpose and functionality of the two technologies, but maybe there's something to learn regarding the terminology used to describe RSS.

Where the data comes from (Outside.in) - the Radar part of their site already sends e-mail so we didn't do the e-mail part. You should be able to get an RSS feed there too

pet peeve of mine: when you click on one of the form fields the "title" disappears and when you blur that field (after not typing in it at all and or deleting the content) it remains blank, surely it should put the title back on if blank?

This is fixed, by the way

You know, it isn't bad for something that these guys built in 48 hours :)

http://blog.outside.in/2008/11/11/announcing-the-new-outside...

PS. I work at outside.in so I'm probably biased.

It's tough that I have to give you my email address, real world address, twitter account name and twitter password (!!) before I can even see how good your service is. How about letting me type in an address and see what you would have sent me had I been signed up.

Ooo, .ly domains!

What technology do you think they are using to aggregate that data?

it's the brand new outside.in API: http://api.outside.in

I think I answered my own question. Outside.in

Ah, they just use outside.in .. still cool but not as amazed. Someone needs to make the same thing for Canada. A very cool idea :)

.ly? Libya?

O RLY? http://or.ly

I actually checked yesterday if that was still available.

I need to go outside more :p

I think it would be cool if I could use it as a search engine for local news.