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Persistence pays off in 'real-time' for Windy Citizen

34 points by brandnewlow 16y ago

kljensen 16y ago
Duder who runs that is a super nice guy and has poured his heart into Windy Citizen. Nice to see him win the Knight prize.
brandnewlow 16y ago
Hey guys, I just received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to spin off our advertising program into a new online ad startup that is going to reinvent display ads and make them stop sucking. Link here: http://nowspots.com/ http://nowspots.com/ We've already gotten some great coverage from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74-million-for-future-news-tools/ http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74... Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challenge-winners-take-home-274-million-in-grant-awards/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challe... PBS: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-challenge-winners-for-2010166.html http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-cha... Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/windycitizen-brad-flora-wins-knight-news-challenge-grant-jobs-joann-genette-wbig-high-dellios-ap.html http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/wind... And the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/good-knight-brad-flora-gets-250000-grant http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/goo... I want to say thanks to the folks on HN for your support and encouragement over the last two years as I bootstrapped Windy Citizen and learned a ton about what works and what doesn't in the online ad space. Now I'm going to make a run at it. We're going to be hiring (announcements coming soon), and there will be several open source releases as part of this project, which will all be announced on here. If you've got questions about the Knight News Challenge, bootstrapping, or anything else, ask away!
- michael_dorfman 16y ago
  Congratulations, Brad! It looks like you are doing some great work. (I posted an article about your winning the grant here yesterday, but it didn't seem to get any traction.)
  - brandnewlow 16y ago
    Thanks so much! Perhaps I should have hacked Dustin's Posterous...
jordo37 16y ago
It's been fun watching Brad learn to hack as he rolls out WC. Best of luck with the ads biz
hnhasNOpwreset 16y ago
Rock on!!
shortformblog 16y ago
Brad was a super-cool person the one time I met him in person. Glad to see him succeed. WC is one of the best twists on the Digg/Reddit model I've seen. And I would totally run his real-time ads on my site.
ajkirwin 16y ago
I'm quite sad that they passed over such great things as WikiLeaks for Yet Another Ad Company.
- frossie 16y ago
  Did WikiLeaks apply?
  - ajkirwin 16y ago
    I believe so, yes.

34 points by brandnewlow 16y ago

Duder who runs that is a super nice guy and has poured his heart into Windy Citizen. Nice to see him win the Knight prize.

brandnewlow 16y ago

Hey guys, I just received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to spin off our advertising program into a new online ad startup that is going to reinvent display ads and make them stop sucking. Link here: http://nowspots.com/ http://nowspots.com/ We've already gotten some great coverage from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74-million-for-future-news-tools/ http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74... Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challenge-winners-take-home-274-million-in-grant-awards/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challe... PBS: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-challenge-winners-for-2010166.html http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-cha... Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/windycitizen-brad-flora-wins-knight-news-challenge-grant-jobs-joann-genette-wbig-high-dellios-ap.html http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/wind... And the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/good-knight-brad-flora-gets-250000-grant http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/goo... I want to say thanks to the folks on HN for your support and encouragement over the last two years as I bootstrapped Windy Citizen and learned a ton about what works and what doesn't in the online ad space. Now I'm going to make a run at it. We're going to be hiring (announcements coming soon), and there will be several open source releases as part of this project, which will all be announced on here. If you've got questions about the Knight News Challenge, bootstrapping, or anything else, ask away!

michael_dorfman 16y ago
Congratulations, Brad! It looks like you are doing some great work. (I posted an article about your winning the grant here yesterday, but it didn't seem to get any traction.)
- brandnewlow 16y ago
  Thanks so much! Perhaps I should have hacked Dustin's Posterous...

jordo37 16y ago

It's been fun watching Brad learn to hack as he rolls out WC. Best of luck with the ads biz

hnhasNOpwreset 16y ago

Rock on!!

shortformblog 16y ago

Brad was a super-cool person the one time I met him in person. Glad to see him succeed. WC is one of the best twists on the Digg/Reddit model I've seen. And I would totally run his real-time ads on my site.

ajkirwin 16y ago

I'm quite sad that they passed over such great things as WikiLeaks for Yet Another Ad Company.

frossie 16y ago
Did WikiLeaks apply?
- ajkirwin 16y ago
  I believe so, yes.