Tuesday, 17 February 2009
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Currently: Mezzanine Uber Restaurant List
Behold, the latest of my work: The GoPickle Business Directory.
Officially, we're in beta, so there's a lot that remains unreleased today. However, the basic premise works. We have business yellow page listings in 940 regions, and we allow any business in a given region to upgrade their listing to a usable mini-website. Think: Merchant Circle without all the spam and myspaceified social networking garbage.
Abuelos in Rogers, AR:
I'm in the process of decking-out a few example listings, for example, Abuelo's, because it's one of my favorite restaurants in Rogers. We've essentially set the site up so a user can access a business through a handful of paths... You could click Fayetteville > Restaurants > Rogers, AR Restaurants > Abuelo's. Or you could just search by typing the URL into the browser: fayetteville-ar.gopickle.com/search/abuelos
OK, fayetteville-ar isn't real inteuitive, but it's because we're a smaller area. It gets easier when looking through bigger areas... austin.gopickle.com/search/abuelos or, if you're awesome, dfw.gopickle.com/search/medieval+times
So that's it. The tip of the iceberg went public about two weeks ago, but there's still a ton coming. Updates to follow. Please click around and give me your coveted feedback, if you have the time.
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Hey....I just payed attention to your post in Feb about GOPICKLE. pretty cool! Easy access to lots of information. I like it. One question. Why is it that when i click on Rogers restaurants I get some information about Dallas restaurants? ( I thought I'd ask a work related question so I could hear from you and how you are doing.Ha!) We just spent a day with Kiefers at Universal Studios. A fun time. The next night we went to dinner at T REX. It's like a Rainforest Cafe with animated dinos. Chaotic and noisy and longs waits but worth it for a one time thing. Hope you are having a good visit with everyone. We will probably be home by next weekend!
Love,Momma
@shirleyasage - ha, thanks for sneaking a work-related question in there ;)
That's good feedback -- you're probably seeing the two ads at the head of the search results that help us keep the lights on here. We're experimenting with different ad providers right now, so hopefully the quality will improve as we tweak that part of the site. See which one you like better so far (may change next week):
Apartments in Fayetteville, AR
Apartments in Lawence, KS
I'm glad to hear you guys are all having fun down there :) This week and last week have been crammed full of people. It's been a roller coaster of activity, but it's been good to see everyone. We miss all of you. Come baaaaack!
@briansage - Sorry, didn't see much difference in the two but then again it could be the glass of wine. Both wer good! Loved the fact that the map moved as the cursor went over the name.
We went to a quaint place for lunch today. Apparently Florida has very lax health laws concerning restaurants because we've found a few of these places. This one was called Cherry Pocket Fish Camp. All the retirees think it's cool because the place was packed with them for lunch. Think of a movie set of the worst fish camp you can imagine.......that was it! Everything falling down and if they repaired anything it would lose its charm. It had the oldest overgrown mobile homes for rent and the restaurant was a shack on the water. The food was great!
Love to all, Mom