I had an appointment that got rescheduled today so I thought I’d use this time to talk about the upgrade to CitySquares.com. The best song just came on my headphones too, and it’s putting me into just the right frame of mind to type this up. The song is Underworld’s Rez/Cowgirl Live @ Glastonbury 1999. [...]
Citysquares.com Testers Needed
by Ben Saren on Sep Fri, 2007 in CitySquares
At the risk of sounding hasty and secretive, I need to keep this brief, but I promise more info will come shortly…
CitySquares is seeking testers. We’re about 1 month from launching the new and greatly improved Citysquares.com. It’s a huge upgrade, and a vastly improved experience for people (they’re not “users”!) and for businesses. While [...]
Choosing Drupal
by Ben Saren on Jul Thu, 2007 in CitySquares, Computers
So today we hired our first full time engineer. (for those of you who expressed interest in the job, thank you!) And in doing so we came to a resolution about technology, and then some actually. We decided to choose Drupal as our platform of choice for the future Citysquares.com. After much deliberation, debating, discussing, [...]
Frustrated with Zvents
by Ben Saren on Feb Wed, 2007 in Local Search, New Media and Web 2.0
[This has been appended]
I’m not typically interested in taking the time to talk about my frustrations with companies who I’d like to work with, but this is very annoying. Over the past few months Citysquares has been working on building some nice partnerships. Some are content providers offering a unique niche offering that [...]
User Reviews
by Ben Saren on Feb Mon, 2007 in CitySquares, Local Search, Locally Owned, Social Networking
I’m going way out on a limb here, and surely many of you may disagree with me, but I feel pretty strongly about this, as a serious consumer and as a serious business person running a startup that connects consumers with local merchants.
Greg Sterling posted an interesting piece on his blog today titled “Opportunity: Online [...]
Citysquares.com: Part 1
by Ben Saren on Feb Tue, 2007 in CitySquares, Entrepreneurship, Local Search, Locally Owned
Today I had a meeting with the founders of Spot Story, Aron and Matthew. I briefly met them at WebInno last week. It was at the end of the evening and the room was clearing out, they were still fielding questions and performing demos. We spoke for a couple minutes, exchanged business cards and promised [...]
My Experience at WebInno
by Ben Saren on Jan Wed, 2007 in Entrepreneurship, Networking, New Media and Web 2.0
So back on November 29th, we at Citysquares had the pleasure of being a ’side-dish’ at WebInno. Run by David Biesel, the event is, in my opinion, a hugely needed event for beantown. With all the amazing technology companies here in Boston, and the schools and the massive amount of brainpower here, it’s amazing to [...]
Fond memories of Sidewalk.com
by Ben Saren on Jan Wed, 2007 in CitySquares, Entrepreneurship, Local Search
John Kelsey has a nice piece on The Kelsey Group blog about Sidewalk.com, and Steve Ballmer’s regrets of dumping it. I have to admit that it’s nice to finally see some acknowledgment by Microsoft that this was a mistake. Because that’s ultimately what it is. Sidewalk.com was a fantastic site back in the day. In [...]
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