March 16, 2008
This afternoon, Gothamist posted a piece about Outalot:
“New Yorkers like to go out. A lot. A website aptly called Outalot allows fast and easy browsing of three nightlife basics: restaurants, bars, and movies…”
Continue reading the full post at Gothamist.
We appreciate all the positive feedback we’ve received from users who have found out about us through local media. Here are some user comments we received this week:
- “It’s a service I personally need.”
- “Am loving the application…”
- “I just moved to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and read about Outalot.com on Thrillist so it’s definitely something that I will start using since I don’t really know the area yet.”
- “It’s better than Yelp.”
We are grateful to users who tag, comment, and rate local businesses, and send us updates about what’s happening in their neighborhood like restaurant openings and closings. We want to provide the highest quality data possible and your support helps us do this. Please keep it coming!
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Posted by Joe
March 13, 2008
Thanks to some local NYC blogs, in particular Down by the Hipster and 78thand2nd, our story has been picked up by some popular local media, including Gridskipper and this morning’s Thrillist newsletter for New York. They wrote:
Evolution has provided animals with advanced methods of terrain mapping: dolphins orient themselves by echo location, and lemmings orient themselves by cliffs. Mapping out the waypoints of man’s existence: Outalot.com.
Read the entire review of Outalot on Thrillist.
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Posted by Joe
March 4, 2008
Here’s one little feature we put in as an experiment: KML for recent comments on Google Earth. If you have it installed, click on the 
icon under ‘Recent Comments‘ on Outalot and get a different view on what’s been happening lately:
P.S. I also wanted to give a big thanks to the people who have helped us get to launch. Your contributions were unbelievably valuable! Please keep the feedback coming!
We’ll continue to keep this blog updated with what we’re up to, so stay tuned for new features, company news, stats we find interesting, job postings, incriminating photos of celebrities at our wild dot com parties, etc.
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Posted by Jesse
March 3, 2008
A few months ago, my partner and I traveled to Melbourne, Australia, his hometown, to visit family. While we were there, we began entering Melbourne-area restaurants into Outalot. Even though we say on the site that Outalot’s currently available for NYC area, it actually contains a lot of data for Melbourne, too. Try changing your location to “Melbourne, Vic, Australia” or use an Australian postal code (eg, “3040, Australia”). You can even enter an exact street address “184 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Vic, Australia”.
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