is all the kind words. Not just from our users,
but from the press, here, and here. oh, and here
and from a load of webloggers everywhere.
but, as ever, NTK does it best.
It's dark times, but they do make a difference.
Anyway, I was hoping that my next post would have been a bit more upbeat, so here's something like it was, anyway.
Upmystreet has 665,000 unique users. Not your common-or-garden we-picked-these-out-of-webtrends users, but yer ABC audited this-many-people-really-in-january-2003 users. Looking at nearly 9 million pages of central (and more importantly) local government data and information about them and their ~14 immediately neighbouring households.
it awes me. When we first conceived the demo in the attic in Maiden Lane, the idea was that the government should publish all this data they had that people had paid for, had a right to, and could use. But even we thought that it would be the usual activists, lobbyists, and civil rights suspects that would do it, not more than half a million people every month.
The other thing we have, that we've never really been able to shout about enough:
A digital TV service (for all Sky's 6 million households), that automatically picks up their postcode from their box, and displays contact information for 23,000 council services, across 468 Local Authorities, allows them to email said council service providers, contact information and results for their (26,000) local schools, further education, and local transport info. Oh, and it's extensible by anyone who wants to, to provide additional services behind.
government on digital TV. everywhere, now.