Today Twitter updated its API to enable applications like Oodle to geo-code tweets.    Now, when someone posts a local listing through Oodle we can help them share it on Twitter and automatically note where the listing is located.  This local context is key for enabling the discovery of local content (like classifieds listings) on [...]

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.  [...]

We recently heard that Jeremy Zawodny is leaving Yahoo! for Craigslist. We’re hoping that with Jeremy’s influence, Craigslist decides to become more open. Historically, the company has not only blocked search engines (like Oodle), but has also tightly restricted user activity. It will be interesting to see if Craigslist’s stance on openness changes in the [...]