Comments on: Fwix Looks Cool, Unless You Live in a Small Town

By: Fwix Shifts into a Local Directory

Fwix Shifts into a Local Directory — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:07:10 +0000

[...] has been on my radar for a little while now as a pretty interesting aggregator of local news. I wrote about Fwix a couple months ago on Hyperlocal Blogger, but haven’t had a reason to cover Fwix here on [...]

By: Fwix Launches Hyperlocal Search Engine

Fwix Launches Hyperlocal Search Engine — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:22:21 +0000

[...] The Local Trend Search tool is interesting and appears to have potential as the company continues to develop it. But like Fwix’s primary hyperlocal news product, it seems to suffer from lack of coverage in smaller towns. [...]

By: Mike Wilton

Mike Wilton — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:16:01 +0000

Interesting site. I live in the city of Corona, which is just outside of Orange County, CA and they actually have it listed, but what’s interesting is that it shows the correct map for the city but is feeding news for Corona Del Mar. I’m hoping by adding our Corona blog we might turn up as the only true Corona resource on the page. Thanks for sharing Matt!

By: Chris Kouba

Chris Kouba — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:30:42 +0000

Hi, Matt – looks like that Fwix widget is smart enough to sense that I’m in Virginia, and it’s showing me Virginia headlines instead of Spokane.