EB may have suffered from a lack of discoverability of its best features. The feature I found most useful was the ability to define an area on a map, then get

EB may have suffered from a lack of discoverability of its best features. The feature I found most useful was the ability to define an area on a map, then get email updates when other users posted news in that area. I think that should have been the primary focus of Everyblock instead of the raw stream of data.