http://www.bizwiki.com/blog News from the World of Bizwiki Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:31:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BizwikiBot web crawler has been extremely busy recently, and we're happy to say we've been able to add additional detail to hundreds of thousands of businesses right across America. Our custom-built BizwikiBot is programmed to perform tasks such as confirming or updating vital contact details and retrieving and processing a ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/11/05/bizwikibot-adds-more-detail-to-businesses/ The US Yellow Pages industry's associations have jointly announced the launch of an opt out phone number look up for your local yellow pages. Unfortunately it's not an online form. It's just a list of phone numbers to call. Still, I suppose it's a step in the right direction in that ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/09/08/get-rid-of-yellow-pages/ According to the New York Times, in a move to tighten up control of sensitive information Wikipedia will soon require approval from an experienced editor before changes to articles about living people are displayed on the site. In February we reported that Wikipedia was considering just such a move in our ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/08/25/wikipedia-to-control-changes/ Taking another huge step in the right direction AT&T is looking to begin phasing out the distribution of its printed white pages phone book. According to an article by WSB News, the company has requested permission from the Georgia Public Service Commission to stop delivering white pages to homes in ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/08/24/atlanta-to-kiss-the-white-pages-goodbye/ Is your Yellow Pages phone book thinner than it used to be? You might not have noticed, but apparently it's on a diet. The Yellow Page publisher AT&T blames the shrinkage on several factors including (un-surprisingly) online advertising. According to an http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/08/13/yellow-pages-gets-thinner/ Yesterday we put a few tweaks and bug fixes live including: Near-instant map co-ordinates update for businesses that have edited their address. A minor design change to the Bizwiki homepage. A more robust profanity filter. Easier to understand instructions for the email that is sent when a user has forgotten their password. We'll be rolling ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/08/12/tweaks/ Since we launched the Beta version of Bizwiki.com last week we have been very pleased with the sheer volume of user registrations and company submissions. We would like to especially thank Choice Window Tinting Orlando for being the first submission we received, just minutes after the US Beta was launched. We ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/08/05/big-thank-you/ We’re happy to announce that the fully-functional Beta version of Bizwiki.com has launched today, enabling our users to build up the most detailed and up-to-date index of businesses in the United States. Bizwiki invites everyone from business owners and representatives to customers and consumers to get involved ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/07/30/bizwikicom-site-launches-in-the-us/ Now there is a new way to search Bizwiki UK -- check out the new Bizwiki iGoogle gadget. You can add the Bizwiki UK gadget to your iGoogle homepage, stick it on your Google toolbar and even embed it into your own website. The Bizwiki UK gadget was developed by our ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/04/08/bizwiki-igoogle-gadget/ The Independent newspaper published an article on Tuesday, 3 February 2009, titled 'So is Wikipedia cracking up?' in which Stephen Foley explores the problem of vandalism plaguing certain areas of the online encyclopaedia site, and Wikipedia's reaction to it. The article states, 'Barack Obama's inauguration day was the final straw for ... http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/2009/02/04/wikipedia-breaks-with-tradition/