Citysearch Friends and Family Letter 2009

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.

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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…