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]]> By: 3spots • • • http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-14967 3spots • • • Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:53:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-14967 <strong>TagClouds Obervations, font sizes and colors •...</strong> Do you use Tag Clouds? Some people may not like Tag Clouds, I personally find them interesting, useful and aesthetically appealing even if they are not precis information. They can have different useful purposes, ma.gnolia icon ma.golia for example ..... TagClouds Obervations, font sizes and colors •…

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]]> By: Brad http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-13582 Brad Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:09:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-13582 I am the CEO of Rich Media Worldwide the company that developed the 3CDepot.com site. The 3CDepot is something that is here there and everywhere when it comes to selling and or buying. The site is a cross between EBay and Craigs List does not charge fee's to sell and makes it money through advertising sold through biding.I believe the depot is a site that will change the way the classified business is sone on the internet. It is in Beta now and will go live April one. I would like to hear your comments. I am the CEO of Rich Media Worldwide the company that developed the 3CDepot.com site. The 3CDepot is something that is here there and everywhere when it comes to selling and or buying. The site is a cross between EBay and Craigs List does not charge fee’s to sell and makes it money through advertising sold through biding.I believe the depot is a site that will change the way the classified business is sone on the internet. It is in Beta now and will go live April one. I would like to hear your comments.

]]> By: Adam http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-10199 Adam Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:10:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-10199 http://www.listsomething.com is another Web 2.0 classified site worth mentioning. It was originally created for the local South Florida community but has evolved to include other cities now. The site was designed with simplicity in mind and has lots of cool ajax features to enhance usability. Oh yeah, it was designed with the fabulous RoR framework too (our first rails project). Let us know what you think. Thanks, Adam http://www.listsomething.com is another Web 2.0 classified site worth mentioning. It was originally created for the local South Florida community but has evolved to include other cities now. The site was designed with simplicity in mind and has lots of cool ajax features to enhance usability. Oh yeah, it was designed with the fabulous RoR framework too (our first rails project). Let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Adam

]]> By: Dana http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-9073 Dana Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:39:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-9073 here's another classified site http://plugstar.com here’s another classified site http://plugstar.com

]]> By: Nathan http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8907 Nathan Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:12:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8907 It's great to see all these implementations of various technologies for a service as simple as classified ads. Can't wait to see how this plays out. As someone mentioned earlier, classifieds are a hard market to break into. :-) It’s great to see all these implementations of various technologies for a service as simple as classified ads.

Can’t wait to see how this plays out. As someone mentioned earlier, classifieds are a hard market to break into.

:-)

]]> By: bob http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8842 bob Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:48:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8842 Looks like theadcould was “crunched.” Their welcome page display nothing except “DB PROBLEM”. Looks like theadcould was “crunched.” Their welcome page display nothing except “DB PROBLEM”.

]]> By: DrDel http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8825 DrDel Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:31:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8825 wow, so many different classified web 2.0 sitess it is nice to see that 2/3 of the sites show on this post are not from Silicon Valley Mike, I hope you are planning on promoting more sites that aren't from the Valley - DrDel http://www.Gabbr.com wow, so many different classified web 2.0 sitess

it is nice to see that 2/3 of the sites show on this post are not from Silicon Valley

Mike, I hope you are planning on promoting more sites that aren’t from the Valley

- DrDel
http://www.Gabbr.com

]]> By: keith http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8765 keith Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:37:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8765 Agreed, tagging is really effective concept to effectively organize/filter un-structured data that has inherent patterns and complex relationships.. So how well suited it is for classifieds ?? I liked the idea of suggesting the tags that makes sense..otherwise this tag abuse will backfire.. Not to mention, better make sure there is a lot of data otherwise "noise (bad tags) will dominate over signal(good tags)".. So good work but long way to go..keep an eye on google providing APIs for Google Base also.. Keith Hollins http://www.getvendors.com Agreed, tagging is really effective concept to effectively organize/filter un-structured data that has inherent patterns and complex relationships.. So how well suited it is for classifieds ?? I liked the idea of suggesting the tags that makes sense..otherwise this tag abuse will backfire.. Not to mention, better make sure there is a lot of data otherwise “noise (bad tags) will dominate over signal(good tags)”.. So good work but long way to go..keep an eye on google providing APIs for Google Base also..

Keith Hollins
http://www.getvendors.com

]]> By: Kevin http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8725 Kevin Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:12:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8725 Actually you can write a little bit about Fremont - it is now Windows Live Expo, listed up on the Windows Live Ideas page. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=22032d98-43b2-4855-bbf0-8e1e7645b089 Actually you can write a little bit about Fremont - it is now Windows Live Expo, listed up on the Windows Live Ideas page. http://ideas.live.com/programp.....1e7645b089

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8717 Michael Arrington Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:31:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8717 Kevin, Its a little known territory up near the north pole. Kevin, Its a little known territory up near the north pole.

]]> By: Kevin Burton http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8713 Kevin Burton Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:26:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8713 What's this "Canada" you speak of? What’s this “Canada” you speak of?

]]> By: Josh Whiting http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8697 Josh Whiting Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:29:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8697 Good stuff! I'd like to also point out http://tagifieds.com/ Classifieds is a tough business to break into, no doubt. It's an old concept with deep roots in newspapers (and now the Craiglist behemoth), and it is hard thing to do really well. To make it even tougher, it has a huge resistance to growth due to the catch-22 of "critical mass" - the site doesn't provide real value until everyone else is already using it. On the other hand, I think we are ready for some new life and ideas to be brought into this entrenched and somewhat boring industry. Good luck to these sites... keep the innovation coming! Good stuff! I’d like to also point out http://tagifieds.com/

Classifieds is a tough business to break into, no doubt. It’s an old concept with deep roots in newspapers (and now the Craiglist behemoth), and it is hard thing to do really well. To make it even tougher, it has a huge resistance to growth due to the catch-22 of “critical mass” - the site doesn’t provide real value until everyone else is already using it.

On the other hand, I think we are ready for some new life and ideas to be brought into this entrenched and somewhat boring industry. Good luck to these sites… keep the innovation coming!

]]> By: Graham http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8695 Graham Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:02:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8695 Hey Michael - thanks for the review!! A quick update: We'll be adding tagging over the next few weeks to a month...the reason that we didn't go this way originally is that many, many internet users still are very comfortable with the "large taxonomies" of yester-year (we currently have 13000 of them). We'll be doing a semi-mashup of tax-folksonomy with the next realease. We currently use something called Notifieds to allow individuals and businesses to be emailed when auction and classified requests and offers of interest get posted on the site (by geographic location). That said, we have also been asked to allow our users to create custom rss feeds based on the listings of interest that they choose...if this one doesn't quite make the next release, it will be soon after. We are also in the process right now of building the feeds for Froogle and GoogleBase so that all items posted on rbloc.com get shunted into those two marketplaces...and I can't wait to see if we can do the same with Fremont. Congrats to BlockRocker and theadcloud on their sites. They are both very cool!! Mike, congrats on MobileCrunch and getting Oliver...another very exciting blog. Hey Michael - thanks for the review!!

A quick update:

We’ll be adding tagging over the next few weeks to a month…the reason that we didn’t go this way originally is that many, many internet users still are very comfortable with the “large taxonomies” of yester-year (we currently have 13000 of them). We’ll be doing a semi-mashup of tax-folksonomy with the next realease.

We currently use something called Notifieds to allow individuals and businesses to be emailed when auction and classified requests and offers of interest get posted on the site (by geographic location). That said, we have also been asked to allow our users to create custom rss feeds based on the listings of interest that they choose…if this one doesn’t quite make the next release, it will be soon after.

We are also in the process right now of building the feeds for Froogle and GoogleBase so that all items posted on rbloc.com get shunted into those two marketplaces…and I can’t wait to see if we can do the same with Fremont.

Congrats to BlockRocker and theadcloud on their sites. They are both very cool!!

Mike, congrats on MobileCrunch and getting Oliver…another very exciting blog.

]]> By: Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » TheAdCloud - Classifieds with Tagging (Plus: How Your Blog is Becoming the Submit Form for the Web) http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8694 Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » TheAdCloud - Classifieds with Tagging (Plus: How Your Blog is Becoming the Submit Form for the Web) Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:32:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8694 [...] Mike at Techcrunch has been looking at the classified ad space - picking out BlockRocker, rbloc and theadcloud as the most exciting additions. But as far as I’m concerned, theadcloud is the only really exciting service here. So what does theadcloud do? Very little, in fact - but it has the same brand of extreme openness that made del.icio.us such a success. Theadcloud is all tags, all the time - it lets you create a classified listing with a title and short explanation and then tag it so others can find it. There are feeds for tags and individual cities - I love the openess here. [...] […] Mike at Techcrunch has been looking at the classified ad space - picking out BlockRocker, rbloc and theadcloud as the most exciting additions. But as far as I’m concerned, theadcloud is the only really exciting service here. So what does theadcloud do? Very little, in fact - but it has the same brand of extreme openness that made del.icio.us such a success. Theadcloud is all tags, all the time - it lets you create a classified listing with a title and short explanation and then tag it so others can find it. There are feeds for tags and individual cities - I love the openess here. […]

]]> By: SM Guy http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8687 SM Guy Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:10:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8687 Looks like theadcould was "crunched." Their welcome page display nothing except "DB PROBLEM". Looks like theadcould was “crunched.” Their welcome page display nothing except “DB PROBLEM”.

]]> By: Paul http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8685 Paul Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:40:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8685 Here's another interesting, non-Silicon Valley based classifieds company... http://www.3cdepot.com Here’s another interesting, non-Silicon Valley based classifieds company…

http://www.3cdepot.com

]]> By: antonio queiroz http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8671 antonio queiroz Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:18:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8671 Hi Guys, I also launched a new classified site - www.anuncioo.com, and its hard to emerge into the market but with some time and efford its worth while, so keep it up … for us its beginning to progress… we now have up to 3,000 visitors / a day with 0 advertising Also, if anyone is interested guve a buzz, we can discuss problems, partnerships …. or just if you need a pep talk :) Hi Guys,
I also launched a new classified site - http://www.anuncioo.com, and its hard to emerge into the market but with some time and efford its worth while, so keep it up … for us its beginning to progress… we now have up to 3,000 visitors / a day with 0 advertising
Also, if anyone is interested guve a buzz, we can discuss problems, partnerships …. or just if you need a pep talk :)

]]> By: Eek! » Blog Archive » theadcloud http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8664 Eek! » Blog Archive » theadcloud Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:51:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8664 [...] As I’m not good with words, go take a look at Michael’s post here. [...] […] As I’m not good with words, go take a look at Michael’s post here. […]

]]> By: Roberto Alamos http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8663 Roberto Alamos Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:48:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8663 Thanks for the mention to theadcloud.com Michael! I'm working, as Rod Edwards of BR, in new features to the site, and you'll see those additions soon! just keep going to theadcloud.com :) Thanks for the mention to theadcloud.com Michael! I’m working, as Rod Edwards of BR, in new features to the site, and you’ll see those additions soon! just keep going to theadcloud.com :)

]]> By: Tradethis » Three other Web 2.0 classifieds sites listed on Techcrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8661 Tradethis » Three other Web 2.0 classifieds sites listed on Techcrunch Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:34:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8661 [...] Today Techcrunch posted about three classifieds sites. Since Tradethis is not really out there yet we’re naturally not among the three. Instead, we’ll try to earn a whole post of our own some time soon.. [...] […] Today Techcrunch posted about three classifieds sites. Since Tradethis is not really out there yet we’re naturally not among the three. Instead, we’ll try to earn a whole post of our own some time soon.. […]

]]> By: 螞蟻‧夢 » the ad cloud：免費放自己的廣告 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8659 螞蟻‧夢 » the ad cloud：免費放自己的廣告 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:58:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8659 [...] (via TechChunch) [...] […] (via TechChunch) […]

]]> By: Brad Twohig http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8658 Brad Twohig Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:53:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8658 Add one more to the list: www.tradethis.com. They only have a blog (http://blog.tradethis.com) right now, but development is well underway Add one more to the list: http://www.tradethis.com. They only have a blog (http://blog.tradethis.com) right now, but development is well underway

]]> By: Rod Edwards http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8657 Rod Edwards Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:47:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/12/three-new-classifieds-companies/#comment-8657 Hey Michael - thanks for the mention! I'm happy to report that tagging on BR has taken another few steps: - Anyone can add tags to any classified to create their own lists of listings. Nice little ajax tool on each view page to do so. - When creating a classified, it now recommends tags as you type - similar to the del.icio.us behaviour. Another ajaxy implementation. - There's also a rudimentary tag cloud on the main page under the map. It works, but it ain't pretty. Such is "beta" life - Change to follow shortly. Other news - I've been in touch with Marc at TeleFlip, and while nothing's signed or implemented yet, it looks like I'll be going with them for North American SMS as another contact option in addition to the phone/email/AIM/YahooIM that are already there. Will also be adding Skype at some point too. Anyway - thanks for posting about TeleFlip - great find. Alright - thanks again, and looking forward to some constructive criticism and feedback. --Rod. Hey Michael - thanks for the mention!

I’m happy to report that tagging on BR has taken another few steps:
- Anyone can add tags to any classified to create their own lists of listings. Nice little ajax tool on each view page to do so.
- When creating a classified, it now recommends tags as you type - similar to the del.icio.us behaviour. Another ajaxy implementation.
- There’s also a rudimentary tag cloud on the main page under the map. It works, but it ain’t pretty. Such is “beta” life - Change to follow shortly.

Other news - I’ve been in touch with Marc at TeleFlip, and while nothing’s signed or implemented yet, it looks like I’ll be going with them for North American SMS as another contact option in addition to the phone/email/AIM/YahooIM that are already there. Will also be adding Skype at some point too. Anyway - thanks for posting about TeleFlip - great find.

Alright - thanks again, and looking forward to some constructive criticism and feedback.

–Rod.

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