Launching Radar Beta on Monday
Everyone at outside.in is working hard right now on getting all of the final pieces together for our beta launch of Radar, scheduled for next monday. It’ll be great to finally get it launched and open to the world for everyone to play with.
In my two years of working on outside.in, I think Radar has been the most interesting feature we’ve produced yet. The first time I looked at a working version of it, it actually kind of gave me the chills. It was giving me news about things happening right around the corner from my apartment, and they were really interesting. One item was about someone who had been shot and killed in an elevator two blocks away from me the day before (hey, this is New York after all). The other was a critical review of a restaurant in my neighborhood, one of my faves. Both stories transcended normal news-dom and felt like things that were about my life, my personal sphere. You don’t get that feeling very often from normal news sources.
Until Radar came along, I’ve felt like we were building an enormous platform at outside.in. Now, with Radar, I feel like we’re finally starting to build on top of that platform, with some very interesting results. And we already have a lot of conversations going on in the office about cool things we could put into later releases of Radar, so I feel pretty safe in saying that it’s going to continue to get more interesting and more useful for people.
So check outside.in on Monday, and give Radar a try if you haven’t yet. And look for a blog post on the outside.in blog, where you can read about all of the interesting things we’ve packed into Radar.
