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YourStreet

Born in late 2006, YourStreet started as a real estate community site, allowing users to share news and opinions regarding the state of the housing market in the site's five target cities. After launching, development began on the second version of the site, shifting the focus to local news aggregation, with a web crawler that analyzes thousands of news sources, intelligently placing and dynamically updating articles on a scrollable map.

That shift in focus required a massive shift in the site architecture to ensure an elegant user-experience. While the first version of the site was a relatively simple database front-end, the second version required more sophisticated client-side data management (via JavaScript) for not only the pins that would appear on the map, but for updating the page contents based on the current map state. That necessitated cataloguing and querying a constantly growing stream of geospatial (map)/article associations. This was coupled with a full visual refresh to increase user engagement.

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