Mojopages mixes Social Networking with YellowPages
By Vivek | November 27th, 2006 at 07:45 pm ET
Launching early next year, Mojopages is looking to add a refreshing social networking outlook to plain-old YellowPages. Mojopages is founded by Jon Carder who earlier this year sold his mortgage lead providing startup Clientshop.com to InternetBrands.com that owns number of other major internet properties including CarsDirect.com and Autos.com. In the ensuing 9 months after the sale, Jon with his team of 12 people has been building an interactive platform to enable users to extract the right information based upon real business contact data.
Personally I tend to get lost in the huge number of results we get in return any local business search. Unlike news articles where you can get Slashdot or Digg kind of effect to review and promote the right news articles to the top, it is a difficult task to get people around to reviewing and rating businesses. Even if you can find the reviews there is no guarantee of the reviews being genuine.
Mojopages team is working to eliminate these issues and provide just the right kind of network to foster user collaboration, easier reviewing-rating of businesses, and establish user trust. It will be an interesting to see how Mojopages rolls out its strategy to capture reviews for more than 15 million businesses. For those of you who had thought that they have seen last of the startups in local search with the rise of Yelp and CitySearch should watchout for Mojopages.
Links:
Mojopages
on November 28th, 2006 at 3:41 am
Vivek,
Thanks for the post about what we are doing at MojoPages.com We are working like banshees around the clock to get the site moving forward. We are currently in alpha and have been bug testing and making changes virtuaally nonstop. Our aplha testers have been giving us great feedback and providing feedback.
Cheers!
Rodney Rumford
on December 1st, 2006 at 4:59 am
Check out Palore, it is complimentary service to MojoPages kind of services.
on February 21st, 2007 at 12:08 pm
[…] Mojopages, the local search engine that I had written about in the fast, finally launched alpha version of the site over the past weekend. From the initial view, the site looks pretty comprehensive that adds a very strong social networking angle to plain old local search. […]