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As seen at Boston's WebInno a few months ago. A friend used it and got an unbelievable deal. - Ben Saren

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A story about the Semantic Web Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein - Ben Saren

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Rainy ambience sound. Pretty cool. A 15 minute loop. - Ben Saren

We compiled a list of five predictions for search in 2010 and asked experts to weigh in on whether they think those predictions will play out. - Ben Saren

Erik Wiegardt is the founder of New Stoa, a contemporary Stoic community that seeks to revive the ancient philosophy of Stoicism as a living practice. Unlike the communities discussed in Emily Cadik's article, Come Together, the Stoic community, which encourages Deism, is not strictly speaking a secular humanist community. But there is a certain amount of overlap, and knowledge to be discovered through dialogue. The New Humanism conducted an e-mail interview with Erik to discuss the relationship between Stoicism and Humanism. The following is an edited version of our e-mail exchange. - Ben Saren

Stoic community - Ben Saren

CitySquares Online Inc. has bought a fellow Boston-based local search firm with its acquisition of Yokel.com, announced today. - Ben Saren

Hyper-local search firm CitySquares Online Inc. has acquired Boston-based online retail directory Yokel to further its bid to become the go-to online resource for everything local — from garbage-pickup schedules to where to find the closest barbecue joint. - Ben Saren

Report and receive issues in your community. We believe that SeeClickFix is more useful the more people who use it. We work hard to spread the word. Traditional media has covered our efforts via TV and newspapers. You may also find us mentioned on blogs and email listservs. There are a number of volunteers who get the word out - we call these people SideClicks. You, too, can share SeeClickFix with your friends, family and community. If you have other ideas for us, please let us know. - Ben Saren

Mr. Hardy had heard about SeeClickFix.com, a local advocacy Web site that lets users write about issues to encourage communication between residents and local government. SeeClickFix users post a complaint about problems that occur within a set of boundaries on a Google Map, like graffiti at a bus stop or potholes on a busy street, and the site communicates the problem to the appropriate government agency and marks the problem on the map. - Ben Saren

CitySquares in the Wall Street Journal - Ben Saren

A seminal event will occur on Wall Street tomorrow morning. At precisely 9:30 a.m., Heath Clarke, the CEO of Local.com, will ring the NASDAQ opening bell. In so doing, he will essentially ring in a new theme on Wall Street: Local is the new black. In a report we will release tomorrow, Local.com is listed as one of the Top 3 fastest-growing local online advertising companies in North America. This is a remarkable feat in a year when ad sales are phenomenally depressed for seemingly everyone else. Yet Clarke’s company is seeing growth of 34% this year on revenues that are expected to top $50 million. - Ben Saren

What should I know about role addresses or email addresses that forward mail to multiple recipients? - Ben Saren

How to rescue and a baby bird. - Ben Saren

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Fed up with seeing local small businesses being ravaged by the economic downturn, some people are taking matters into their own hands. They’re trying to reverse the fortunes of mom-and-pop stores by becoming more organized in “buying local.” - Ben Saren

After three and a half years running CitySquares, and after an additional six years running another company prior to CitySquares, I’ve learned quite a bit about starting a business and growing it. I had a bit of an epiphany a few days - I realized that I am in a quandary, caught between a rock and hard place, as a company founder, and especially as a founder running a funded company, actively on a board of directors, and working with investors. This has resulted in a new side project, a community that I am starting, along with a few others. This community is conveniently known as The Founder’s Quandary. - Ben Saren

There have been a number of signals that all point to the obvious direction of Google wanting to increase the granularity of local information world wide and thir desire to control that information themselves... - Ben Saren

According to the comScore study, local search grew 58 percent in 2008, significantly outpacing the 21 percent growth in overall U.S. core web searches during the same period. As local search grew, Internet Yellow Pages and local online business directories saw double-digit growth of 23 percent over 2008. - Ben Saren

Incidentally, this is a fantastic example of a brand listening to the conversation about them online. Not only did CitySquares engage in the conversation, they made a change to their product that benefits everyone. - Ben Saren

CitySquares began as a local search site for cities in the Northeast. Last year, they announced their plans for a nationwide expansion as data showed they were the fastest growing search site. They followed through, expanding to a trickle of cities and states along the way. Now, CitySquares is announcing that they have reached all 50 states in their expansion. There are 16,000,000 businesses now listed on CitySquares. - Ben Saren

Several business owners likened Yelp to the Mafia, and one said she feared its retaliation. - Ben Saren

This year, growth in the local-ad market -- which represents about a third of total online ad spending in the U.S. -- is expected to shrink, according to one key estimate, challenging the ad and media-buying shops that rely on the local Internet market. - Ben Saren

Do you want to rebuild our economy and revitalize your community? The 10% Shift wants to help you do just that. - Ben Saren

Diggity Dog, formerly Dogma, is Union Square's newest dog store! New owner and Certified Master Groomer, Lisa, is eager for special requests from pet owners, and to meet the Union Square community! Diggity Dog in Union Square is your one stop shop for dog grooming, doggie daycare and pet supplies. - Ben Saren

Facette is a suite of tools allows Delicious users to organize their bookmarks using facets. Facette offers a bookmarks browser that automatically organizes tags in a user's account. Facette also offers an enhanced version of Delicious' tagging tool. - Ben Saren

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