Bringing local down to the street level

Liz Gannes, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 2:00 AM PT Comments (3)

StreetAdvisor, a site housing local reviews, recommendations, news, and information, becomes publicly available today. The difference between this startup (which happens to be based in Australia) and the competition? It wants to do it all on an individual street basis. That brings the critical mass requirement to a whole new level, but it’d be cool if it worked.

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March 28th, 2007
2:48 AM PT
Matt Rubens said:

Ugh, site is down. No insightful comments then, but it’s interesting that StreetAdvisor has the same URL as an investment site that came and went during the bubble. Maybe pets.com is available for my next company?

March 30th, 2007
12:32 AM PT
Yohay said:

At the time of my reading, the site is up. It looks like a very cool idea.

May 12th, 2007
1:52 AM PT

[...] startup StreetAdvisor launched this week and has received a huge amount of coverage. GigaOM, Mashable, SearchEngineLand and TechCrunch among those to [...]

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