FatDoor: Whitepages 2.0?
Posted by Sebastien on the 2007/05/31 at 09:21
in Directories, Fatdoor, Hyperlocal, Local Search, Raj Abhyanker, Social Media, Tags -
Just received a message in the last few days from Raj Abhyanker, co-founder of FatDoor. He informs me that they just launched their alpha site at the Ignite session at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, California. FatDoor is a new hyperlocal web site focused on discovering who and what’s in your neighborhood.
Highlights:
- Comes pre-loaded with residential and business data (based on zip code), mashed-up with Microsoft Virtual Earth
- You can claim your name and position your avatar on your house
- You can see your various neighbors and their interest via tags but it does not show their address or their phone number for privacy reasons
- You can contact your neighbors
- You can modify people’s profile (images, text) a la wiki
- You can create and join interest groups
- You can see deals and merchant reviews in your neighborhood (crawled content)
- You can see events in your neighborhood
- There is also a point system linked to the contributions you do
What it means: I like the effort as it is visually very beautiful but I’m not sure I