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This seems like a great opportunity for someone to acquire basic contact information from those former EB power users posting on this blog entry, each of whom will likely be able to rally hundreds of former EB users to help you populate an EveryBlock clone you swiftly roll out. Your site could easily take off now that the niche is completely empty again.

Stop whining, start coding.

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Creating yet another centralised web app on a shoestring budget is hardly the solution here. No doubt it too would lose money and get shut down or get bought out and get shut down. Unless somebody with resources is prepared to fund/maintain it, but even then you are reliant on the goodwill, energy and money of a single person. Even charging users doesn't solve the problem of the owner just pulling the plug for whatever reason.

The centralised web model is broken when it comes to any kind of services that stores significant user data (and it turns out that most things involve storing user data). If you are going to order people to start coding, at least tell them to start coding on solutions to the real problem.

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