MetroCascade Victoria: see, read, do
Whoa, it’s up…!
Announcing the soft launch of my baby, what I and my partners have been working on: MetroCascade, the local news aggregator for Victoria, BC.
The site was up a while ago, but now it has a great new look, much of the behind-the-scenes work is done, and the upfront work can begin in earnest: populating the site with more content by finding additional local bloggers for the “read” cascade; getting the “see” cascade going by tapping into all the amazing local photography talent; and inputting events data into the “do” cascade.
Oh, and working on MetroCascade’s own blog…! 🙂 Every start-up is supposed to have its own blog, right? (Somehow, we’ve sort of neglected that…)
What does MetroCascade do? The main “cascade” is the Read cascade, in the middle: that’s where we aggregate local bloggers and local news, all on the Google model (i.e., you the reader get a link that sends you away, to the blog or news page). On the left, there’s the See cascade, which right now is unfinished, but will feature local photographers – again, “google model,” you get a thumbnail, click on it and it’ll send you to the photographer’s site (could be Flickr, Picasa, GPhoto, or another photo service site, or could be their own website). And on the right, there’s the Do cascade, which will be our events calendar. Believe it or not, there’s a lot to be put into the Do cascade – Victoria has plenty of events – and venues. We’re still working on getting that up and running; right now I think it’s going to depend on some inputting of data by hand, but soon many venues will be automatically included.
So, in short: the Read cascade is the most “populated” right now, and of course we’re still looking for more content. The See cascade should be coming along really soon, as should the Do cascade. It’s our soft launch, and slowly but surely we’re going to get a solid content build-up.
This is for you, Victoria: show yourself to yourselves, all of your selves.
Congratulations! The site looks great! am looking forward to cascading through Victoria virtually!
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