Seo, Development and Internet Observatory

The Toronto-based real estate classified site RentCompass has launched a new Facebook app to complement the mobile apps it already has.

The basic concept behind RentCompass is nothing we haven’t seen before – a Google Map with available rentals appearing as house icons. Click any item to go to the property’s details page, which includes the usual goodies – pictures, contact info, floor plans. But in the relatively smaller Canadian...

Michael Jones

Amazing news! On May 16, all sellers can list Auction-style with Buy It Now FREE—to catch those buyers who need their items fast. Pay zero...

Michael Jones

Amazing news for sellers with an eBay Stores subscription: from May 7–13, you can list Auction-style for FREE. Pay zero insertion fees, even for...

We last wrote about the Canadian daily deals site TeamSave in November 2010 when the company inked a deal to power Kijiji’s deal functionality in Canada. This was in addition to TeamSave’s own daily deal site which competes with other local deal companies such as DealFind and of course Groupon.

We caught up with TeamSave’s president Chris Nguyen who shared with us an...

If the Queen's Jubilee and 2012 Olympics pride have overcome your sense of subtlety, Microsoft has a special game console for you. The Celebration Pack Xbox 360 is a plain-jane 4GB Kinect bundle underneath, but it...

According to recruitment software provider Bullhorn British recruiters are world leaders when it comes to adopting social networks. A survey of 65,000 users showed that 87 per cent of U.K. recruiters post their jobs on LinkedIn, a whisker ahead of the 86 per cent of their Canadian counterparts. 85 per cent of Australians and 84 per cent of American recruiters turned to LinkedIn compared to 75 per cent for the rest of the world.

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Traffic to U.S. websites that publish escort and body-rub ads hit a record in March, while five of those sites sold at least $3.2 million in online prostitution ads during the month.

March revenue from online prostitution ads increased 2 percent from the previous month and 8.6 percent from March 2011, according to estimates by the AIM Group, and it was just $60,000 short of the record set in January.

There were 6.1 million unique visits to 22 tracked sites, according to...

This isn’t exactly a Canada story, but we were interested to see where Canada placed in terms of property website reach. Property Portal Watch’s Simon Baker put together the list, which found Australia’s RealEstate.com.au in the clear lead, reaching 17 percent of the country’s population of 22 million people. AtHome.lu in Luxembourg and ImmoWeb.be in Belgium also scored high with 14 percent reach.

On the other end of the scale, Japan, China, Brazil and Mexico have relatively...