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 [...]

It’s been another busy week in the fast-changing online world. Here are a few updates from The GH Spin’s “In case you missed it” file. Patch goes live: AOL’s hyper-local news source, Patch, went live in Edina this week. Patch journalists in several Twin Cities locations are already active on Twitter and Facebook. According to [...]

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 [...]