Hey local bloggers, hey newspapers, hey anyone else who has a locally relevant website – want to display businesses in your neighborhood, city, or town, on your website? CitySquares just made it very easy for you to do that with Local Feeds for Publishers. You can add these feeds of local businesses to your website [...] [...more]
Part of CitySquares‘ mission is to give small merchants a voice. We’re still quite a ways from achieving that goal, but we’re getting closer and you’ll see more of that in the coming months. If one thing is certain though, it’s that consumers have lots and lots of ways to express themselves. You might even [...] [...more]
I have been working with a company that created a .mobi website to augment their existing website. One of my jobs was to submit their .mobi URL to mobile specific directories and search engines. At first I thought that would be an easy task. After about an hour at it, I changed my mind. What I [...] [...more]
Well, it’s official! As of last week CitySquares finished off our national expansion. All 50 states, and hundreds of thousands of neighborhoods, towns, cities, and staggering 16,000,000 small businesses are all on CitySquares now! This is a big step for us, for local search, and for the hyper-local concept but most importantly, for small businesses. [...] [...more]
As we announced a few weeks ago, CitySquares is beginning it’s national roll-out. We’re now happy to announce that the states of Delaware and Maryland are now live on the site! It’s an exciting and busy time for the development team and we will continue to update you on what states have been launched and when. [...] [...more]
I’ve long believed that at the heart of our communities, be they urban neighborhoods or rural villages, there are a few things that define the character of the community. Those things are… 1) the small businesses along the streets, with their storefronts, their goods and services, their owners who employ the locals and teenagers during the [...] [...more]
CitySquares started in 2005 with only seven neighborhoods on the site. We wanted to provide a useful and relevant hyper-local resource for local residents and for the small businesses. Those seven neighborhoods in Somerville and Cambridge Massachusetts (Davis Square, Porter Square, Harvard Square, Kendall Square, Union Square, Central Square and Inman Square) are now the [...] [...more]
I’m in NYC this week attending the SES conference. I’m staying uptown at my friend Rich’s place. Last night, to thank him for putting me up (and putting up with me) I treated him to sushi and sake. Rich and I used to work together at Delphi.com, who later become Prospero.com, from 1999 thru 2001. [...] [...more]
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