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Webwork - 9:54 pm on Oct 11, 2006 (gmt 0)
"We really are part of the town," said Rucker. "We live here; we work here." Here is San Mateo, California, one of the two locales Smalltown has set up virtual shop. Nearby Burlingame is the second. Ya, so, every new web venture is going to work based upon all the freely available "community" labor. Community Generated Media (CGM) is the glue of the next wave. How many "communities" can we all be a member of, in order to assure their economic viability? What happens when the mayor and his buddies decide to move over to WebsiteB? What happens when the locals "go political"? What happens when one day everyone wakes up and realizes that all their "free content generation" has made a few people a lot of money? Again and again. Blogging anyone? [edited by: Webwork at 10:02 pm (utc) on Oct. 11, 2006]
From Clickz: [clickz.com...] Handing out ice cream sandwiches at a community clean-up event and visiting neighborhood Chamber of Commerce functions is what Hal Rucker, CEO of local user content-supported business and community startup Smalltown calls "good karma marketing." The just-launched enterprise aims to compete with the likes of Backfence, Yelp and MerchantCircle by offering free and paid business Web sites, local business reviews and free classifieds.