My Curious Life

My friend and co-conspirator, Ryan Williams, has been putting together a little something he calls Local Signal for some time now. Even in its infancy, I thought Ryan was on to something, but after getting a few reviews and mentions, I’m sure of it.

There have been a number of comparisons with Goboz, even on the PDX Web Innovators discussion boards, but there’s something much simpler and more elegant about Local Signal that beats a crazy busy site like Goboz. (It’s got a cooler name, too, in my opinion, and Ryan even got help picking it out.)

If I’m traveling to a new city or just curious about what’s happening around town, I just want to peruse the news — serendipity is more useful than specific categorization and top 10 lists, as Goboz does. It’s like reading the paper … articles of interest can catch my eye that I might not otherwise have known to look for. Local Signal accomplishes that. And while I do use a feed reader (my old reliable is Bloglines), I don’t necessarily want to gather even more feeds in my feed reader than I already have just to keep up with local events and news.

I’m really hoping that Ryan sees some activity on Local Signal. With about 50 U.S. cities and counting, it’s already something I use as a regular tool. If you’ve got ideas for Local Signal, or just want to wish him well, stop by Ryan’s blog and give him feedback. You can read more about his “official” preview release on his blog as well.

It’s always exciting when something you’re involved in gets mention in the Wall Street Journal. NetworthIQ has been the pet project for some time now of my friend and co-founder, Ryan Williams. It’s been his baby from the get-go and he’s really spent a lot of time and effort in developing a tool that fills a specific need in the personal finance community.

Here’s hoping that visitors from the WSJ will see the value and sign up in droves. I only wish we’d had time to get the upcoming redesign in place. *sigh*