Radar

Radar puts you at the center of your news, showing you all the news stories, blog posts, discussion threads, and Twitter tweets happening near the places you care about. Its a whole new way of exploring the information around you. Find restaurants, dive into real estate gossip, get the insider view of local schools, track nearby crimes--Radar shows you everything thats happening right around the corner.

Your iPhone will tell Radar where you currently are, but you can also set up profiles for where you live and work. Once youve set your location, you can use the icons at the bottom to switch between different zooms: seeing only stories within 1,000 feet of your selected location, or stories from the surrounding neighborhood, or your city. Shaking the phone jumps you to a map view of all the latest buzz.

Each hotspot in your neighborhood has its own dedicated page, so you can scroll through all the reviews of a new restaurant or blog posts about a controversial new real estate development. Wherever you go, Radar will give you the insider view.

Radar is U.S. only (for the time being!) Visit us at outside.in for more information.

UPDATE: Weve optimized performance of this app to speed up your local news and eliminate timeouts. Thanks to initial users for their great feedback!