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Citysearch pulls a total overhaul
Webware.com —
... , the online business directory owned by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, has gotten a full makeover. It's available now at beta.citysearch.com--there's a more streamlined and Ajax-y interface, but a few important features have been tweaked as well. According to company representatives, this is about a year and a half in the making. ...
Citysearch Becomes More Social and Mobile
ReadWriteWeb —
... the ability to search specific neighborhoods instead of just metropolitan areas. Citysearch also announced a retooled mobile site, which lets users read and write reviews on their mobile devices, and gives them access to menus from participating restaurants. Citysearch has also implemented Facebook Connect, which allows users to log in to the site with their Facebook accounts, and the company plans to roll out OpenID support early next year.
You can fine the new beta at beta.citysearch.com.
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Citysearch pulls a total overhaul
The Social —
... , the online business directory owned by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, has gotten a full makeover. It's available now at beta.citysearch.com--there'... ...
Citysearch Integrates Facebook Connect and Enters Hyperlocal Review Race
Mashable! —
... , the popular local events and review site owned by IAC, is getting a big makeover tonight. The site is expanding to become “hyperlocal” – creating listings for more than 75,000 different cities, adding social features through Facebook Connect, and launching an enhanced mobile experience. Initially, the new features will be available on a separate beta site, where they’ll be refined before going live early next year. ...
Some Thoughts on Facebook Connect and CitySearch
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
Early this morning I found out that the new CitySearch
beta site uses Facebook Connect to
allow Facebook users to sign-in to the site and bring their social network with them
to CitySearch. Below is a screenshot of the sign-in experience
a user can choose sign-in with their Facebook credentials and if so they can bring
their social network and profile info from Facebook to CitySearch and there is the
option that some of their activities on CitySearch are republished to Facebook.
Here's what it looks like to view my friends page on ...
CitySearch Launches Facebook Connect Implementation
Inside Facebook —
... Tonight, CitySearch Beta launched with a very standard Facebook Connect implementation. But unlike other sites, which sometimes still require users to go through a somewhat wonky double-registration, CitySearch only asks for a site username in addition to your Facebook credentials. ...
Citysearch Gets More Local & Mobile
Screenwerk —
... . The new beta site went live last night (was too tired to write about it then) and I’ve just played with it for about 15 minutes. ...
Revamped CitySearch Makes Facebook Connect Look Useful
Webmonkey —
... But CitySearch is hoping to change that perception with a new beta version that brings the site up to web 2.0 speed with Facebook Connect integration, a coming iPhone app and much expanded local coverage. ...
Citysearch Learns to Coexist With Search Engines
Bits —
... model that accepts, rather than fights the decentralized nature of the Web today, including the power of search engines and social networks. It is weaving its content throughout these other sites. Lots of sites talk about various forms of syndication, but what is particularly interesting about Citysearch is how its advertisements from local businesses can follow its content, so it can profit no matter where someone sees a Citysearch listing. On Wednesday, Citysearch launched a beta version of a new site design that furthers this decentralized approach. It is changing the ...
Facebook Connect: Does Issuing Passports Make Facebook A Country?
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... . How many sign-in buttons will end up adorning these sites? http://beta.citysearch.com already
has two sign-in links, will that expand to four as they move to support signing in
with your MySpace account and your Google Friend Connect-enabled account? Or will
services decide to pick a social network to side with to the exclusion of all others?
It's beginning to remind me of the high definition DVD format wars and not in a good
way. ...
Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... Ignoring the fact that Facebook Connect is a proprietary and centralized approach
instead of being based on open standards, there are still other points worthy of debate.
When trying out sites like CitySearch beta with
Facebook Connect, the experience is that I am connected with all of my Facebook
friends who also use CitySearch. There is the genuine question of whether users really
want to use one friends' list across every site regardless of context (e.g. interacting
with the exact same people on LinkedIn, MySpace and XBox Live) or whether they want
to have universal access to ...
