Constant Contact kicks off SaveLocal deals
By Sharon Hill
The new SaveLocal daily deals product by Constant Contact has an impressive array of differentiators that would seem to give local merchants far greater power and chance for revenue boost than any other Daily Deals product so far. There are many facets to this that we’ll be exploring in depth at a later time, but here are its primary differentiators: Continue reading
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EBay tests new mobile deals platform in Denmark
By Linda Karlsson
MyDealNow is EBay’s new location-based deals platform being tested in Denmark, a country that has turned into something of EBay’s European test laboratory for new technology platforms. MyDealNow was started by Ebay-owned Den Blå Avis A/S and uses the physical position of the smartphone user to send push notifications on deals in the vicinity.
Canadians can monitor Kijiji, Craigslist and Backpage all from one site
Canadians now have a new tool that makes it easier to stay on top of the top three general classifieds websites in the country. iSiteWatch lets you enter in search criteria (or “watchers” as the site calls it) for Kijiji, Craigslist and Backpage. iSiteWatch then updates you whenever results come in matching your keywords.
iSiteWatch is not a big time tool from a major classifieds player – it was developed by a computer science student at the University of Toronto – but it works well enough. In our test, it was fast and the interface was delightful (and we don’t dole out user experience praise that easily). The results come in simple text, as you’d expect from the sources iSiteWatch is scraping.
The developer, Bogdan Makovsky, says he mainly wanted to minimize the time he was spending searching for car parts online and noticing “that I was visiting the same sites everyday, looking for the same items.”
The site is running in all the major Canadian cities and is free. It’s not rocket science but it’s nevertheless a helpful service for Canadian classified searchers.
Zillow Mortgage Marketplace app now for Android
Zillow Launches Mortgage Marketplace Android App
Only Mortgage App to Offer Personalized Loan Quotes, Real-Time Rates and Mortgage Calculators in One Place
SEATTLE, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Zillow® (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace, today announced the launch of the free Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Android™ App giving home shoppers on-the-go access to the innovative loan shopping experience of Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. Also available for the iPhone®, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace is the only mobile app with personalized loan quotes, lender ratings, real-time rates and mortgage calculators all in one place.
“Since we brought Zillow Mortgage Marketplace to mobile in June 2011, the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace app financial calculators have been used more than 1.5 million times, proving people want access to mortgage and financing information when they are out looking at homes,” said Erin Lantz, director of Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. “With the Android app, we were able to take advantage of the unique menu functionality that enables users to easily share information, such as mortgage rates and loan quotes, from every page.” Continue reading
App Economy spurs 466k new US jobs
Here’s a PDF of the complete study, Where The Jobs Are: The App Economy, researched and produced by South Mountain Economics, LLC.
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