Headed to the Bay Area

I’m heading off to the Bay Area in a few days.  

I’ll be attending the 2007 GeoDomain Expo on November 16-17 in San Francisco, and The Kelsey Group’s ILM:07 Conference on November 28-30 in Los Angeles.  I’ll be spending around three weeks in the area meeting with partners, friends, investors.  

If you want to meet, shoot me an email at hanan [a t] palore.com

What a site wants… What a site needs… and Business Development 2.0

We’ve been having many talks with sites that are interested in integrating Palore’s rich local content. As some of you know, we’ve started providing local search sites and IYP sites with feeds of our content that enrich their sites.  

We’re currently working with two types of sites: Local sites that have a variety of information on businesses in specific locations (e.g. Los Angeles, Boston, etc.), and vertical sites that have in depth information on a specific attribute or characteristic of businesses on establishments nationwide (e.g. vegetarian, wi-fi information, etc.). It’s interesting to see how vertical sites (such as menu sites) want reviews and descriptions (basic info on various locations), and local sites (such as city guides) want menus, wi-fi information and wine details to enrich their content.  

Well, you know that there’s an abundance of information out there and it’s a good feeling to know that we can save our partners scraping efforts and multiple business development deals (See Fred Wilson‘s Business Development 2.0 post).