The Dealmap's First National Sale Live Now Through Sunday - 30% Off Crocs

Our sister site that focuses on local deals, The Dealmap, just launched a great sale with Crocs.

Now through Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, you can get 30 percent off all Crocs products at any Crocs owned retail location.  Check out The Dealmap to get the Crocs coupon or find a Crocs store near you.

Introducing The Dealmap

We’ve added a big new feature to complement our local search and discovery tools. It’s so big, we created a new site for it - The Dealmap.

The Dealmap is the most comprehensive source for people to find and share the hottest local deals, all in one place. It aggregates the largest number of local deals on the Web, including offers from nearly 100 local daily deal sites, and makes previously hard-to-find deals available to people when and where they want them through its website, social applications, its daily email, and soon-to-come mobile apps.

The Dealmap already integrates consumer sentiment information from Center’d, and we’ll begin to integrate deal data into Center’d as well. Together, the combination of location, sentiment and pricing information available on our sites will help people make better local purchasing decisions.

Check out the press release and The Dealmap site.

Cheers,

The Center’d Team

Enhanced Driving Directions Page

A couple months ago, we noticed a lot of people were using our driving directions page, so we decided to upgrade the design a bit to make it easier for people to get directions wherever they're heading in the U.S. We've also added functionality so that you can see restaurants near your destination or search for other places as well.

Cheers - The Center'd Team

Insequent Licenses Center’d Sentiment Analysis Data

Insequent announced that they’ll be integrating our Sentiment Analysis data on their Biz411 product, which provides local businesses the ability to add a mobile element to their overall marketing effort. Since we’ve started analyzing conversations about local places, we’ve quickly grown our unique index and are now up to over 3 million U.S. places that have sentiment data and we’ve been receiving positive feedback from both consumers and partners. We’re excited to add Insequent to our growing roster of partners and look forward to sharing more news in the near future.


For more information on the deal, check out the press release.

Free Local Content & Monetization Tools for Publishers

In addition to launching our new iPhone app yesterday, we also unveiled a new publisher program that enables sites small and large to add local content and monetization tools to their web presence.

We’ve created an easy-to-use and customizable widget that features local content based on our “Flavored Local” technology, so publishers can add things to do like top romantic restaurants or best kid-friendly attractions in any city to their site. It’s fully customizable – You choose the color scheme, as well as content from 6 interest categories including romantic, kid-friendly and more, and from 5 activity categories including restaurants, attractions, events, and more.

Anyone from small bloggers to large companies can use the widget, and if you participate in our paid publisher program you’ll also earn money from displaying the widget on your site.

Check out the widget and more information about the paid publisher program here.

Cheers,

The Center’d Team

P.S. – We also have APIs available for custom integrations of our data into your site. Give us a holler if you’re interested.

Center’d Launches “Flavored Local” iPhone App

Today we rolled out a new iPhone app which uses our “Flavored Local” Technology to help people find nearby places and things to do. Now you can use your iPhone to search for places based on your interests including kid-friendly, romantic, outdoor, cheap, and more (just like you’ve been able to do the last couple months on our website).

Additionally, we’ve included the sentiment charts and style-category drill-downs from our place pages in the app, exposing an unparalleled amount of data about businesses in an easily digestible, summarized mobile format. These charts and comment “snippets” give you a quick read of what people think about a place without having to wade through long reviews on your iPhone.

Here’s the quick scoop on the features in our new app:

• Search and Browse: You can search for places in any U.S. city and filter results by popularity, distance, or interest styles, and browse things to do with more than 20 city guides.

• Aggregated and Summarized Place Data: The place profile pages in the app feature content that gives people a quick snapshot of a place. Sentiment charts capture whether people feel positive, neutral, or negative about a place and include “snippets” of the most frequently mentioned comments about things like service and menu items. You can also drill-down on each place’s style categories to understand why places qualify within a given interest.

• Integrated Maps: You can view multiple places from search and browse results on an embedded map, and pan and zoom the map to help find the right place and pinpoint where places are located without leaving the application.

• Easy Content Submission: Just like on our website, you can quickly submit content and information about places, including photos, short keywords that describe a place, and interest information about a place to help classify it.

• Planning and Sharing Tools: You can save places and combine them on a list, which you can then easily share with friends.

The app is free and is available on the App Store, or you can learn more about it here.

We’d love to hear what you think of the app, so drop us a line once you’ve had a chance to check it out.

Thanks!

The Center’d Team

Center'd Adds a City Guide for Phoenix, AZ

The Center'd team just rolled out a Phoenix City Guide for visitors and locals alike. Whether you're looking for a way to spend the day outdoors in Phoenix, at an air conditioned shopping mall, or just have a good meal, this guide will give you good ideas and information on where to go and what to do. Here's a selection of what Phoenix has to offer:

Things to do in Phoenix

Phoenix attractions

Phoenix kid friendly attractions

Phoenix restaurants

Romantic restaurants in Phoenix

Kid friendly restaurants in Phoenix

We're working on getting these great guides out for more new cities, so be sure to check back to see what's new.

Cheers - The Center'd Team