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31 May 2011

After finding success revolutionizing restaurant reservations, OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has taken up a new challenge: to bring neighbors closer together through hyperlocal sharing. Templeton’s new startup, OhSoWe, quietly launched earlier this month. At its core, it’s an online community platform for neighborhoods to network and communicate online. Instead of providing local news (like AOL’s [...]

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Tags: AOL, collecting dust, community platform, Craigslist, lawnmower, opentable, plumbing web, public message board, restaurant reservations

OhSoWe Is a Hyperlocal Network for Neighborhoods

In: web resources

31 May 2011

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Tags: AOL, collecting dust, community platform, Craigslist, lawnmower, opentable, plumbing web, public message board, restaurant reservations

Crowdtap

In: web resources

27 Apr 2011

What can you use the application for? CrowdTap lets companies tap into a crowd to improve their product and the way they market it. Users who belong to the CrowdTap community can also benefit by participating in the process. The user connects through Facebook and provides information through polls about the brands they like and [...]

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Tags: AOL, brandon evans, codeblue, dan lafontaine, facebook, matt britton, matthew purdon, old navy, pepperidge farms

Is Blogging Really in Danger Because of Social Networks?

In: web resources

23 Feb 2011

Here we go again with another one of those silly social media vs. blogs debates. The New York Times stirred the pot this time with an article called, "Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter." Can you imagine ever reading only social media updates and no blogs? Share your thoughts. "Blogs were [...]