Archive for July, 2009


Fighting the bad guys

With more and more people searching for great deals, many consumers have turned to online classifieds sites, such as Oodle or Craigslist. This rise of popularity has not gone unnoticed by con artists, otherwise known as scammers.
As the freshly-minted product manager for trust and safety initiatives at Oodle, my job is to make sure our [...]

Photos from Camp Oodle 2009

The Oodlers spent the last weekend at CEO Craig Donato’s property in the Sierra foothills.  I went along as faithful photographer and (unintended) playmate of what seemed like 30 Oodle children.  Everyone had a great time, and we couldn’t have asked for more beautiful weather or a more beautiful place to experience it.

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Prompting Conversations Around Classifieds

Since we launched Facebook Marketplace back in March, we’ve been learning a lot about how users share and discuss listings. Today we rolled-out shouts, a new feature which make listings even more conversational.
Historically, conversations around published content lives within the comments section. This enables the author and the people looking at the content to [...]

Oodle’s Twitter Integration: Phase One

Today, Oodle released the first part of our Twitter integration. Now you can post your listing on Oodle and automatically share it with friends on Twitter (as well as your friends on Facebook and MySpace). Listings are tweeted into your Twitter stream where your followers see it immediately.

 
We are also tweeting all of the [...]

Oodle Partners With eQuest

Today we announced an exciting partnership with eQuest. eQuest delivers job listings from their customers’ internal systems to the leading job boards. In 2008, eQuest posted over 200 million jobs for more than 20,000 companies worldwide. Soon, eQuest customers will be able to post their listings into the Oodle network with [...]