Greg reports on AT&T Interactive finally listening to me 😉
AT&T Interactive has opened up all the content on YP.com to third party developers. That means app developers will have access to YP.com’s 17 million local listings, maps, reviews/ratings and deals for free:
Great list from Greg on free local data set providers.
From Perry Evans in the comments:
It also feels like we’re “racing to the bottom” for core directory data businesses. The value now has to be constructed on top of a quality directory data resource, and this continues to demand that data-centric businesses expand beyond simple license and hosted data services.
I love the developer challenge they are running to get some cool apps created for SXSW. More info at http://developer.yp.com/
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I was suggesting this as far back as October 2010.
http://peaksearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-data-not-brand-that-counts.html
Great minds Harry. Great minds…
You may have seen (or maybe not) that we added them to GetListed.org a few weeks back — http://blog.getlisted.org/yp-com-added/ I wonder if we are eligible for the SxSW contest? 🙂
Looks good David. Perhaps we can start a Twitter lobby campaign for you.