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ForRent.com Partners With Oodle On Facebook Marketplace

ForRent.com said today it has partnered with online classified company Oodle to integrate its apartment listings in the Facebook Marketplace.

“Looking for and acquiring a home (be it renting or buying) has been called one of life’s major stressors. Engaging feedback from one’s ‘social network’ can ease the anxiety of this decision,” said  Brock MacLean, senior vice president of national sales and development at ForRent.com.

 

Bing Launches Maps Apps for World Tour, Oodle, Foursquare
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Microsoft launched a few new apps for Bing Maps today: the World Tour App, the Oodle App and the Foursquare App.

Facebook Marketplace Goes Live With Oodle
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Facebook Marketplace has relaunched and is now powered by online classified service Oodle.

Facebook first launched its Marketplace application in May of 2007 as a way for users to create, share and respond to listings across categories such as "Furniture" and "Roommates."

"Marketplace helps people buy and sell furniture and household items in a trusted environment," wrote Craig Donato, CEO of Oodle, on the Facebook Blog.

Oodle Scores MySpace Classifieds Deal
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No Craigslist or Kijiji for Rupert Murdoch’s social networking outpost, MySpace; it’s Oodle that landed the agreement to make over the classified section on the site.

Kijiji Attempts to Take On Craigslist

The New York Times recently reported a story about Kijiji’s attempt to take on Craigslist. Though Kijiji has some decent traction globally, it had been an unknown in the US. Is that about to change?

Oodle Grabs New York Post Deal
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The online classifieds at Rupert Murdoch’s Big Apple tabloid are getting a makeover, in an impressive little win for Oodle.

Oodle Shakes Its BandTracker

Online classifieds site Oodle has launched a concert listings service called BandTracker out of beta. If a favorite band plays near you, BandTracker will let you know.

The Month of Acquisitions

There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let’s look at some of the major deals that went down this past month

What Happened to Oodle?

Just days after Facebook announced a partnership with online classifieds aggregator, Oodle, the social networking site has rolled-out a seemingly different classified solution.

Oodle Tracking Pricing Data for Online Classifieds

Oodle will today announce the launch of the Oodle Index, a real-time pricing guide for online classified listings.

Oodle Opens Its Classified API

Classifieds search engine Oodle.com made its application programming interface generally available today, and introduced a new affiliate program for API users.

Shop At Yard Sales In Australia–Just Not Yet

Through a mishmash of Internet news headlines, it’s becoming obvious that the lines between local, national, and international are growing more blurred than ever.

Oodle Gets a Vast Competitor

Great news for Oodle, they’re getting a competitor in the form of new classified search engine, Vast.com.

Oodle Embeds With Lycos, Backpage

The two charter members of Oodle’s Partner Network will use APIs to connect to Oodle’s index of classified advertising and display those search engine results.

Oodle Partners with Lycos and Backpage

We’ve gotten a sneak peak at a new press release coming out later today from classified search engine Oodle.

Craig Donato Discusses Future of Online Classifieds

[It's been almost two years since I first started chatting to technology innovators about the future of search. This article get's the ball rolling again.]

Tired: Web 2.0; New Hotness: Classifieds 2.0

Newspaper veterans attending a talk by Oodle.com CEO Craig Donato at a Las Vegas conference learned they’d best get onboard with online advertising ASAP.

Oodle Mouses Into Orlando

The online classifieds search site has extended into another metropolitan area, this time arriving in Central Florida.

Classified Fight: Craigslist Bans Oodle

Craigslist, in which eBay holds a 25% minority stake, has asked Oodle to stop scraping it for classified listings.

News Corp Looking For Search, VoIP

Rupert Murdoch told analysts in Manhattan he expects to have VoIP and search engine capabilities for his nascent Internet empire “within weeks.”

Oodle Launches Classified Search Engine For College Students
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Attention college students: are you tired of the never-ending hunt for potential careers and other classified-related searches? Do you need a tool that can make these tasks easier to accomplish? If so, Oodle may just be the site you are looking for.

Oodle Of Classifieds On Google Maps

Users of the Oodle search engine will see results of their classified ad search alongside a Google Map of locations.