Twitter is evolving its offering around social discovery, more specifically asking:  Twitter Plans to Offer Shopping Advice & Easy Purchasing

As one who can’t stand the idea of golf-themed ties, I’ve always opted for an alternative Father’s Day gift.  Now, I know that if you’re a well-organized, responsible person, then you have already bought your Father’s Day gift and are set to go.  Though if you’re like the majority of sons, daughters, and wives that [...]

This week we began working on Twitter integration for Oodle. Soon you will be able to easily share your listings when posting from Oodle. We will also bring relevant tweets into our classifieds search index, so that you will be able to see these listings when searching on the Oodle Network, which includes our [...]

Everyone seems to recently have found religion on real-time search — which is great.   With this acceptance, however, many people are missing the big opportunity for Twitter and Facebook to revolutionize the way people discover information.
Internet search is in the mature phase of the innovation timeline.  While we occasionally see cool new advancements, it is [...]

From a platform perspective, Oodle has a lot in common with Twitter…
1. We index a real-time a stream of perishable, unique “tweets” (800-900k new messages a day) in the form of classifieds listings. Actually, we do more than just index these listings.  Our real-time infrastructure tags, enhances and prunes the messages flowing through our system.  [...]

If the dad in your life expects more than a handmade card for Father’s Day (June 21), consider shopping online classifieds sites. In addition to finding one-of-a-kind gifts, gently-used is a greener alternative to purchasing new. Best of all, shopping slightly-used keeps extra dollars in your pocketbook.
Here are a couple of nifty green Father’s [...]

Since the Facebook Marketplace launched in March, I’ve seen a lot of clever ways that users have leveraged the social graph for word-of-mouth marketing. Whether it’s a an agent selling a piece of real estate or a college student looking to fill a sublet, individuals have found that posting a social classified is a [...]

In 2004, I attended my first Inman Real Estate Connect, a wonderful conference that brings together thought leaders in the real estate industry. I remember being surprised to hear so much debate about search and whether it was a good thing for search engines to index their listings that were historically locked in [...]

There are two big benefits to social classifieds.  First, by moving from a world of anonymous communications to one based on identity and reputation, we can provide a more clean, well-lit place to buy and sell.  Second, by integrating the marketplace within a social network, we can turn classifieds into a form of conversation.  Now [...]

There are two types of classifieds listings: private party listings, where consumers buy and sell with each other, and professional listings, where a business (car dealer, landlord, real estate agent) is selling to a consumer. When you’re looking to get the best deal, it’s important to see both types of listings so that you can [...]