iBegin Toronto. ⇒
6 March 2006, the wee hours
One of the guys behind iBegin emailed me asking to plug this new site, which is a cool hybrid of Google Local and Craigslist. Sort of anyway. I think as it gets more and more users it could be quite a good resource.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Thanks for the plug :)
I just wanted to say that we are unlike Craigslist except for our approach – start with one city, keep the site simple, and then expand when your base is rock solid.
We are having more and more users sign up and contribute – we have had roughly 75 reviews in the last 24 hours, so I think it is a good start.
I did do a post about 15 things iBegin does right so hopefully it shows what we are trying to do a bit more clearly.
by AhmedF on March 6 2006, 2:12 am #
Ram, this summer. Our startup. And by that I mean your startup, but I’ll get going on the coffee.
Ahmed, I really like the site. To foster more social interaction it might be nice to have meetup.com/upcoming.org mashups on a per venue basis or something. Although I don’t use either service so what do I know.
Also, there’s a minor annoyance on your blog; there’s no permanent (or prominent) link back to the root
by Haran on March 6 2006, 3:34 am #
Haran – an event/venue system is being built, backed with tagging and what not :) I hope to have it ready by this Friday. We weren’t sure if we should release wit or without it done, but decided to go ahead.
In regards to root – we need to convert the blog from the generic to the iBegin design, just haven’t gotten around to it full yet.
by AhmedF on March 6 2006, 11:40 am #
If you guys hired grade school kids to type all the events from Now and Eye into your system each week, that would be most excellent. The one issue I have with upcoming.org is that for Toronto, it seems to miss a lot of events.
by ramanan on March 6 2006, 12:40 pm #
Ramanan – something we definitely aim to do :)
A preview of how our event system will appear:
Weekly View
Monthly View
by AhmedF on March 6 2006, 4:23 pm #
Since it’s already been typed up once…I wonder if it’s possible to work with them to get feeds of their online listings [now, eye]
I suppose screen scraping is not the way to go about it…
by Haran on March 6 2006, 8:22 pm #