New York City Sublet Ruling

New York City is considering new legislation that would make it illegal to sublet a residence for less than 30 days.  The new law seems to be in response to the popularity of  sites like Craigslist, AirBnB, Homeaway and others that allow residences to arrange short terms sublets. The city is ci

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Dex One Distribution With Jingle Networks

Dex One, one of the leading distributors of business directories in 28 US states has reached a distribution agreement with Jingle Networks. Jingle Networks provides a free 411 service in the US through 1-800-FREE411.  When a user call's 1-800-FREE411 they listen to a 12 second ad that target tow

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Daily American print classified improvements

Daily American, out of Somerset Country, announced this week that they will be doing to a wider classified column display with a slightly larger font size.   The move is intended to make the classified section more readable and easier to use.   Demographics are showing an older demographic are t

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Yellow Pages Print Opt-Out

The Yellow Pages Group in Canada announced earlier this year that they would no longer print and delivery phone directories to most Canadian cites.  For some time the company has also maintained a deliver option system to help reduce unwanted deliver.  You can see the form here. Yellow Pages in

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Top 10 US Classified Sites

Marketing Charts has released the Top 10 US Auto Classified sites based on Hitwise traffic analysis. I believe they are combining Kijiji traffic with Ebay Motors and ignoring general classified sites like Craigslist. As a result I'm sure its an accurate analysis. The chart can be seen here:

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Google UK adds property listings to Maps

Google UK this week launched property listings on Google Map searches.  On any map search users can now click on the "More" function and choose property listings near their search address.  The lists can also be refined to include only properties for sale or rent. It would appear that Google is

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