Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category


Local Twitter

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 [...]

Oodle’s Real-time Stream of Classifieds Listings

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.  [...]

First the Facebook app, now the real thing

As you may have noticed, we have launched a Facebook version of BandTracker on Facebook Platform, but now it’s time to officially introduce the beta launch of Oodle’s newest service: BandTracker.
What it is
In short, BandTracker is a free service that allows music fans across the US (and expanding to the UK and Canada soon) to [...]