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Introducing Oodle Pro for Local Advertisers, Bringing AdWords Sensibility (simple but powerful) to Classifieds

We’re excited to launch Oodle Pro, our self-service platform for local classifieds advertisers: real estate agents & brokers, property managers, car dealers, and employers. We believe the future of local advertising is simple, cost-effective and social. Oodle Pro delivers on all three.
Simple.  Many local advertisers have become comfortable using self-service online tools [...]

MySpace Classifieds Users to See Major Upgrades

MySpace users will begin to see some major upgrades to their classifieds experience. We are transitioning the classifieds marketplace from a “channel” to an application.
As MySpace focuses its brand on music and entertainment, it’s transitioning many of its “channels” into applications – including classifieds. What does this mean for MySpace users? Now, [...]

Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens Now Featured on Facebook Marketplace

It’s hard to believe that the 2010 Winter Games are just around the corner. But starting today you can prepare for the impending cold, while showing support for Canadian athletes in their quest for gold in Vancouver by purchasing a pair of Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens, which are being featured on Facebook Marketplace.
The knitted mittens, [...]

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 [...]

Twitter Ready for More Asking

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

Five Alternative Father’s Day Gift Ideas

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 [...]

Twitter Integration For Oodle: What Would You Like to See?

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 [...]