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Roost.com, the search engine for homes, today announced its availability for the entire Phoenix-area region. Roost.com offers local residents an intuitive, fast and fun search experience, complete with the most comprehensive property listings in the area, to help them find the right home fast.
Roost’s platform is available in the entire Phoenix-area region including Scottsdale, Tempe, Glendale, Mesa and Peoria.
Originally posted on April 9, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
As the action heats up on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, ClipBlast! announced that it is indexing video content from leading political newspaper The Hill.
ClipBlast! will index all current and future content from The Hill’s video channel, HillTube, including streaming videos from the site’s popular features Leading the News, Opinion, and Capital Living.
The Hill has a print circulation above 21,000, more than any other Capitol Hill publication. It is aimed at the 100 senators, 435 House members, 40,000 aides and tens of thousands in the influence industry whose work affects the lives of all Americans. The newspaper is a subsidiary of News Communications Inc., a publicly owned company.
Originally posted on April 1, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
ADOOGA, the comprehensive and user-friendly search engine that catalogs and aggregates branded interactive contests, has launched to help the millions of talented people who are logging onto the Internet to participate. ADOOGA breaks through the current clutter and lets contest seekers easily and intuitively search, at any given time, through more than 250 branded contests open for submissions.
Co-founders Perrin Chiles and Chris Sherrill wanted to develop a community where creatives and internet junkies could get in front of companies with innovative ideas for the brands. They discovered that getting in touch with these brands needed simplifying.
Originally posted on April 2, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Live Nation announced that the company has reached an agreement in principle to enter into a 12-year global contractual relationship with U2, who will join the company’s Live Nation Artists roster.
By expanding the scope of its activities with touring artists, Live Nation Artists unlocks value to increase economic benefits to artists through the creation of innovative new products, and delivery and distribution channels for music and other content. Operating within this new model, Live Nation Artists serves more than 1,000 artists through its array of services, including global touring, merchandise and licensing, sponsorship and strategic alliances, recorded music, studios, media rights, digital rights, fan club/websites (UltraStar, Musictoday), marketing and creative services to facilitate direct artist to fan connection.
Live Nation is dubbed as the future of the music business. With the most live concerts, music venues and festivals in the world and the most comprehensive concert search engine on the web, Live Nation is revolutionizing the music industry: onstage and online.
Originally posted on March 30, 2008 @ 12:32 am
BlogCatalog.com is beta testing Social Search, a cross-network aggregation search engine. The new search engine enables BlogCatalog members to search for data activity across multiple social networks.
Social Search is an extension of BlogCatalog’s Social Dashboard, which aggregates member activity across several other popular networks, including: Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. The new search feature adds functionality by allowing members to search by single user, by friends or by anyone who has opted in to use the Social Dashboard feature.
Originally posted on March 24, 2008 @ 3:30 pm