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Jul 1
2010

Praized Media Rolls out ‘Needium’ for Social-Based Leads

Praized Media, recognizing that social-based media has largely moved from the blogosphere to social media sites during the past two years, has now rolled out “Needium,” a new semantic search site that crawls Facebook and Twitter for specific leads. “A lot of the conversation in blogs now occurs on Twitter and Facebook,” says co-founder Sebastian …continue reading »

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May 29
2009

YPG Launches ‘Answers’ Using Praized Platform

Yellow Pages Group Canada, the leading YP in Canada, is going deep into social networking via the launch of answers.yellowpages.ca, a new Yelp-like service that relies on the wisdom of the community to ask questions, and provide recommendations and information about local services. All the information is portable to Facebook or Twitter, and can be …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Yellow Pages

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Jun 25
2008

Details Released on Praized’s ‘Local Conversations Organizer’

Some details have been released about Praized Media’s Local Conversations Organizer. Praized is a Canadian startup launched by YPG vets Harry Wakefield and Sebastien Provencher, and Sylvain Carle , a longtime industry vet. Its tagline is “Trust Your Tribes.” In a teaser announcement released today, Praized said that its platform will be used by YPG …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, HyperLocal, Local Search, Yellow Pages

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