Persistence pays off in 'real-time' for Windy Citizen(blogs.vocalo.org)
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Persistence pays off in 'real-time' for Windy Citizen
http://blogs.vocalo.org/feder/2010/06/persistence-pays-off-in-%E2%80%98real-time%E2%80%99-for-windy-citizen/26634
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Congratulations, Brad! It looks like you are doing some great work.
(I posted an article about your winning the grant here yesterday, but it didn't seem to get any traction.)
(I posted an article about your winning the grant here yesterday, but it didn't seem to get any traction.)
Thanks so much! Perhaps I should have hacked Dustin's Posterous...
Duder who runs that is a super nice guy and has poured his heart into Windy Citizen. Nice to see him win the Knight prize.
Brad was a super-cool person the one time I met him in person. Glad to see him succeed. WC is one of the best twists on the Digg/Reddit model I've seen. And I would totally run his real-time ads on my site.
It's been fun watching Brad learn to hack as he rolls out WC. Best of luck with the ads biz
Rock on!!
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!