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Know your neighborhood.

Following up on my previous post…

Once you’ve moved to a new place you can also use My Yahoo! to keep track of what’s going on in your new neighborhood. The San Francisco page and Yahoo! Local module are a good start.

The Food (first things first)
Yelp! has a great online community of foodies who eat out and share their experiences. You can add a module with all restaurant reviews for your neighborhood. First head to Yelp! Locations and click on the city nearest you.

If you’re running Firefox 2.0 or Internet Explorer 7, you can just click on the RSS icon and follow the prompts to add the feed to My Yahoo!. Now you have a feed of the latest restaurant reviews for your city.

Music and More
Upcoming is a wonderful place to find concerts and other events. And you can easily add a listing of events tailored to your city. To do this:

1. Head to Upcoming and enter your location in the “Where” box
2. Click on “All Events”
3. Click on “Subscribe” and “Add to My Yahoo!”
…and you’re done.

Events and Such
Finally, outside.in is a great site that combines neighborhood news, event listings, and more into a single page. They even publish an RSS feed for every zip code. To add their feed to your My Yahoo! page:

1. From My Yahoo!, click “Personalize this Page”
2. Click “Add RSS Feed” and enter in http://outside.in/rss.php?region=98101; replacing 98101 with your zip code

Hope some of my local favorites modules inspire you. And if you have some great neighborhood modules of your own, I’d love to hear about them in the comments.

Enjoy!

-Joseph, My Yahoo! Product Manager