All news is local, but local to who and where? People's spatial lives are more complicated then ever, with longer commutes, more frequent relocations and increasingly complicated networks of non-spatial relationships. Is local where you live now? where you used to live? where you went to college? where you work? where your friends live? along your commute? the answer is all of those.

Even when you find the news that relates to a single point, you've only begun to scratch the surface of finding the information that's important to a person. Adding other points of interest into the "location" you're looking for can give you a more nuanced picture of the locations that matter to a person.

Our complicated spatial lives require a better defiition of what local is, and that is where we're innovating, by building tools that redefine the scope of local. Local is the world around a single point, and local is also the network of relationships and places that surround a single person.