Build Web audiences around tasks; start with getting your news on service sites such as Hubbuzz.com
Written by amedeo on October 17th, 2007
Hubbuzz helps people find apartments and understand the character of neighborhoods they’re evaluating during a move.
If Hubbuzz wanted to work with news providers, it would be a good spot to publish hyper-local news because:
- Its users would be interested in neighborhood news that helps them make a moving decision.
- It would benefit Hubbuzz by giving its users a fuller picture of a neighborhood.
- It would be a no-cost way for Hubbuzz to improve its service and journalism organizations to increase their ad revenue if news sources offered free, ad-integrated content that was easily embedded.
Hubbuzz is one opportunity of many to build a news audience around the tasks its members undertake on the Web.
To find other opportunities, check out the amazing eHub. If you don’t feel like hunting, here are a few picks from eHub’s impressive list:
- TripCart, a trip-planning service.
- MedBillManager, a (you guessed it) medical bill management service.
- Blockhunter, a site helping people find a place to live.
- FlippingPad, a site focused on flipping homes.
- Cork’d, a site for sharing and reviewing wine.
- Change.org, a social activism site.
- SpendView and Mint, personal finances management services.
- LifeAt, social networking for a single building (found this through Web2List).
