Yahoo! mashed up? Lo(gi)cal!- Our city launched
Posted on February 3, 2007
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Yahoo! India has just released Yahoo! Our City into Beta. Given all the success that yelp, qype, insiderpages and many more social local communities have lately this seems to be a lo(gi)cal step for Yahoo! to do.
As there are companies like Upcoming and flickr to bring events and photos, 360 as a blogging and social network, deliciuos, MyWeb social bookmarking services and very lately MyBlogLog they have quite a huge box of toys to digg stuff out.
And MyBlogLog could add even more spice to the new mashup - methinks.
Our City homepage
Our City travel page
Our city events
Very well done guys!
update: OurCity mashup has Hack Day roots
Tags: our city, Yahoo!, mybloglog, local search, social media
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