Outside.in

Outside.in was a hyperlocal news aggregation service that clustered blog posts and local news by geography ("placeblogging"), founded in 2006 and backed by Union Square Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners. It was acquired by AOL in 2011 and folded into the Patch local-news network; the standalone product and its geo-tagging API were subsequently shut down. The company is defunct: the outside.in domain no longer serves a website and there is no live developer portal, documentation, or API surface to enrich. This profile is retained as a historical/portfolio-lead record.

Outside.in is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Hyperlocal, News Aggregation, and Local News.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyDefunctHyperlocalNews AggregationLocal NewsGeolocation

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: outsidein
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/outsidein.png
name: Outside.in
description: 'Outside.in was a hyperlocal news aggregation service that clustered blog posts and local news by geography ("placeblogging"),
  founded in 2006 and backed by Union Square Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners. It was acquired by AOL in 2011 and folded
  into the Patch local-news network; the standalone product and its geo-tagging API were subsequently shut down. The company
  is defunct: the outside.in domain no longer serves a website and there is no live developer portal, documentation, or API
  surface to enrich. This profile is retained as a historical/portfolio-lead record.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/outsidein/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- union-square-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: Acquired by AOL in 2011, folded into Patch and shut down; domain does not resolve to a live site.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Hyperlocal
- News Aggregation
- Local News
- Geolocation
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://outside.in
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1