Simon Willison’s Weblog

Knight Foundation grant. Adrian’s leaving the Washington Post to found EveryBlock, a startup focusing on local news and information in the style of chicagocrime.org.

# 24th May 2007, 4:27 pm / everyblock, adrian-holovaty, chicagocrime, startup, washington-post

LiveBus.org (via) Brilliant Google Maps mashup in a similar vein to Chicago Crime—displays screen-scraped bus timetable information for Oxfordshire and Surrey in a far more useful format.

# 10th February 2007, 10:56 pm / livebus, james-wheare, google-maps, chicagocrime, maps, mashup, oxford

How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files. Adrian’s saving server overhead on ChicagoCrime by serving media from S3.

# 7th April 2006, 6:51 pm / adrian-holovaty, s3, amazon, chicagocrime, aws