What Is Our City
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- How local, interesting, engaging and useful can the internet become?
- - What kind of online content exists about our city?
- - Is there one place that i can go to and find interesting photos, videos, podcasts, event information, blogs and news about our city as it created?
- - What do people think about our city ?
are just few of the questions that led to the conceptualisation of Yahoo! Our City.
Yahoo! Our City provides a very interesting, rich and dynamically updated perspective of our city as seen and experienced by us all. You can use Our City to
- - Explore photos, videos, events, news, weather, blogs and a lot more
- - Share events, photos, videos, trip plans and blogs with others
This is the new generation of the web - City content of the users, by the users and for the users.
More cities and several more features will follow soon. The internet has to become more local, interesting, engaging and useful - the journey has just begun.
Let us know what you think about Yahoo! Our City. Invite your friends to experience Our City
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A City page for every Citizen and City around the World
Your clamour for an Our City page for your city has been heard! Get to know the latest about your city by just entering your city name and we will generate a page for you with the latest news, photos, maps, weather and several other interesting resources about your city. So no matter where you live in this world, a capital city or an important tow...
A new landing page
Some of our first time visitors who are on slow connections (dial up etc.,) had problems with loading the home page of Our City given the rich content on the page. We now have a new landing page for new visitors that loads in a jiffy. It provides a brief description of Our City and allows users to Select the City they would like to see. Users who ...
Five more cities and other features
Jammu , Nasik , Trichy , Udaipur and Vadodara Our City versions are now live. People from these cities have a new destination to check out latest news, weather, photos, events in their city. You have written to us asking for your city version to be created and we have now built five more city versions. Additional city versions will be built based ...
Did you know?
It has been a while since the last update on this blog. While we are working on the next set of features to keep you more engaged on this site, here is some info on some of the existing features. This is more for the uninitiated, frequent users among would know many of these. * The site changes it visual theme based on the time of the day. We have...
40 cities now on Our City
Agra , Allahabad , Amritsar , Dehradun , Jamshedpur , Raipur , Surat , Varanasi and Vijayawada have their own city portals now. Our City covers all Indian cities that have more than a million people and has 40 of them. So if you are from any of the above cities or planning to visit them - don't forget to check out the latest news, weather, even...
Help answer questions related to Our City
The most recent questions related to Our City now appear on the home page. Help solve these questions and earn points... In case you have more questions than answers, go ahead and click on the 'Ask' button and someone out there might give you an answer.
Guwahati, Patna, Ranchi, Indore and Puducherry takes us past the 30 mark
We now have 31 cities covered on Our City ( Guwahati , Patna , Ranchi , Indore and Puducherry being the latest to join our growing list). Guwahati version initiates our coverage of the North-east region and the other cities ensure a good distribution across the length and breadth of the country. Keep looking for more cities and features. Do let us ...
Have your say!
Want to pour your heart out, rant on something or just want fellow city netizens to comment on your suggestions - you now have a new avenue for this. Our City has introduced message boards and hope this becomes your virtual neighbourhood coffee shop. Users are already talking about their favourite radio stations, infrastructure, party places etc. ...
Heading to Goa, Srinagar, Kanpur or Nagpur?
Check out these ( Goa , Srinagar , Kanpur and Nagpur ) Our City versions and feel their latest pulse. Orient your self using maps , look at recent photos , videos , or just catch up with the latest news (available in regional languages for many cities). Netizens from these cities have a new destination for event information and for reading/shari...
Hubli/Dharwad and Vizag have a new home
Hubli/Dharwad and Visakhapatnam (Vizag) have a new home on the net. Get all news, photos, videos, maps, blogs and a lot more in one place. We are now well into covering tier II cities. Take a look and let us know what you think. As usual, expect more cities and more features in the next few weeks.
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