2010
Dear Friends & Family‌
It was a year filled with challenges… We faced challenges.
competition
economy
new platform
few dull moments…
investments
acquisitions
GROWTH
and fond memories (some that we’re happy to leave behind).
citysearch.com circa 1995
A new platform. 15 years. Nice vintage for a bourbon, We facedage challenges. challenging for an online platform.
outages
slow innovation
limited transparency
citysearch.com 2009
So we bit the bullet and designed a new Citysearch. We built it from the ground up and ready to scale.
pristine architecture
open source
thorough documentation
Hyper-local coverage
Facebook Connect
Best of Citysearch coast-to-coast
User Lists
Twitter integration
A new experience. With our back-end humming, it was We faced challenges. time to create a front-end to match.
We went local. Really local.
We made new friends. We opened the door to new discoveries.
And introduced new ways to share them.
Experimenting. We found interesting collaborators and helped them publish their passions.
mopshots veggie thing sugar bomber
3 buck bites
Citysearch for iPhone
Citysearch for Blackberry
Citysearch for Palm Pre
Hand-to-hand. We faced challenges.
This was the year the world truly went mobile.
You fell desperately in love… with your apps. And no matter where you were… or what you had in your hand… we made sure we were there for you.
Family members. Over at Insider Pages, we unveiled an entirely new design. Along with a new focus on Home, Health and Family. And watched the profits GROW.
Urbanspoon for iPhone “Shake”
Urbanspoon for iPhone “Scope”
Urbanspoon for Blackberry
New additions. In 2009, we added a new We faced challenges. member to the Citysearch family: Urbanspoon.
urbanspoon.com
market leader synonymous with “mobile�
functionally autonomous
strategically integrated astounding GROWTH
Everywhere Wecreated facedachallenges. We local publisher network that’s now the largest on the web. It’s a simple, yet somewhat magical, relationship that works like this…
We: Supply content and monetization (aka “The Goods”) They: Showcase our advertisers to their consumer audience (aka “The Eyeballs”) Everyone: Is remarkably happy with the shared revenue that’s generated (aka “The Benjamins”)
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Everywhere
We faced challenges.
And then there’s our mobile network‌
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Just as simple! Just as magical! And with partner growth that’s outpacing the rest of the network.
So what’s next? A lot. And we’re dying to tell you all about it, but, you know, “secrecy is the soul of all great designs” and challenges. whatnot. We faced That said, it wouldn’t be sporting to part without just the wee bit glimpse of what we’re anticipating this coming New Year…