Posts tagged Classifieds
Locanto Classifieds Expands to 10 New Countries
Jan 25th
New York, NY, January 20, 2010 — Locanto announced the expansion of their local classifieds sites to ten new countries: Jamaica, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates are now available in English, and in Latin America, the Locanto classified sites (http://www.locanto.com/) are accessible in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, El Salvador, and Panama. With this expansion, Locanto is meeting the high demand for online classifieds sites in more locations as expressed by users.
Verizon patents system for location-aware classifieds
Jan 20th
It’s not often that we genuinely like what these big corporations are doing, so you’d better pay close attention here. We’ve caught wind of a Verizon patent covering the logistics of setting up and running a GPS-based classifieds service, which matches potential buyers and sellers of goods on the basis of their stated interests and location. Thus, next time you’re driving by the home of a carpenter, for example, you might be alerted of his contact details should you need some woodworking done. This seems like a legitimately useful expansion on the location services already available on GPS devices, but — as with the — the application was filed back in 2008 indicating that nothing is imminent. Still, at least it’s comforting to know that good ideas can fleet by carriers’ brain trusts when they’re not too busy .
[Thanks, Anand]
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