Gentrify coverage roundup
Gentrify is getting a lot of attention the past few days, plus some polite inquiries from the Yelp folks about WTF we’re doing. See also Lifehacker, Delicious, NOTCOT, Thrillist, Laughingsquid, SFist, Curbed SF, and even Future of Real Estate Marketing! Plus various linkage on Twitter and even Pownce.
Reactions range from expressions of horror and disappointment, to ironic glee, to thankfulness and requests to bring it to other cities! The 734m team (Visnu, Gerad, Huned, and I) is meeting tonight to go over all this and figure out what to do next.
Update: Now on Apartment Therapy! Feels good to get on blogs that I actually read regularly.
Update 2: Featured in Venturebeat, and syndicated on The New York Times!
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October 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Congrats Brent! We want one for NYC!
It would be nice to have an inverse question and interaction option. Besides asking What do you care about? ask => What you don’t care about? and as I get rid of stuff, reduce the info on the map.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
When I saw your first tweet for Gentrify, I misread your description and thought it was a tool for people to vote on which area of a city they wanted gentrified next - and then a crack team would descend on the most voted area and start opening coffee shops and art studios, adding banksy stencils and seedbombing etc..
October 30th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Hahaha! Ben!