AOL’s hyper-local news approach keeps expanding in the Twin Cities Patch, a national network of hyper-local news websites, started growing in the Twin Cities in November 2010 with seven sites.  In just seven months, it has expanded to 23 different metro communities from Hudson, Wisconsin, to St. Michael.  Patch is also planning to add more [...]

The people who coined “you’ve got mail” are now more than a year and a half into what they hope will be the future of America Online.  AOL is spending millions of dollars creating a network of Patch websites – hyper-local news websites across the country that cover individual neighborhoods or communities.  Last October we [...]

There is a new online news source heading into our market that The GH Spin is watching closely. AOL-owned Patch is putting the hyper in hyper-local news. It is creating community-specific sites for suburbs in 18 states so far (mostly near the coasts). It covers everything from little league games to crime, business openings and [...]