Persistence pays off in 'real-time' for Windy Citizen
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Link here: http://nowspots.com/
We've already gotten some great coverage from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74...
Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challe...
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-cha...
Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/wind...
And the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/goo...
I want to say thanks to the folks on HN for your support and encouragement over the last two years as I bootstrapped Windy Citizen and learned a ton about what works and what doesn't in the online ad space. Now I'm going to make a run at it.
We're going to be hiring (announcements coming soon), and there will be several open source releases as part of this project, which will all be announced on here.
If you've got questions about the Knight News Challenge, bootstrapping, or anything else, ask away!
(I posted an article about your winning the grant here yesterday, but it didn't seem to get any traction.)