Brownbook.net has implemented OpenSearch on its business agenda belvedere so that any developer anywhere can accommodate a business seek and business listings into their website. Following its ‘open’ ethos, Brownbook is a chargeless agenda that anyone can adapt and now with the accomplishing of OpenSearch, any internet appliance can allotment the Brownbook.net belvedere area there are currently over 27 actor businesses listed and new businesses accepting added every day.
How Brownbook has adopted OpenSearch Technology
Brownbook.net has opened up its belvedere for others to body their own bounded search. It uses a aggregate of OpenSearch and Microformats (OpenSearch technology is a accumulating of simple formats for the administration and publishing of seek after-effects in a architecture acceptable for alliance and aggregation).
Understanding and application OpenSearch technology
OpenSearch technology enables a seek to be performed adjoin the Brownbook.net database and the after-effects alternate as an XML feed. This agency web website developers can add their own seek to their website and accept a set of after-effects in a augment that they can architecture to affectation any way they like, for archetype to bout their website’s attending and feel. Here’s an archetype of a simple accomplishing by LocalMouth. This was done in (literally) a few minutes. Read their blog here.
You can go even further; say you capital to bind your seek to just one area, like Colorado, or even added accurately Boulder? How about to a specific business sector, like for archetype electricians, or painters? The OpenSearch interface allows developers to do this too.
It works by battlefront a distinctively formatted URL, which contains specific seek terms, at the Brownbook.net platform. The Brownbook.net belvedere sends aback an atom XML augment that can be acclimated to present the abstracts in the adapted format. The URL can be harder coded, or complete with the ascribe from a user via bare access fields, bead down account etc., so the seek can be as specific or as accessible as required.
Technical data and examples:
Description here: http://www.brownbook.net/opensearch/description.xml
Example URL string: http://www.brownbook.net/business/search/?tag=hotel+orlando&p=1&filter=US&format=atom
Same after-effects on www.brownbook.net: http://www.brownbook.net/businesses/?tag=orlando+hotel&x=0&y=0&filter=us&setcountry=US
Result on a website application the Brownbook.net OpenSearch Atom powered content: http://www.localmouth.com/go/winchester/businesses
www.brownbook.net
For added advice about Brownbook.net amuse acquaintance Sarah Warren on +44 (0)208 1235 466 or email sarah[AT]brownbook[DOT]net alternatively see the Brownbook.net blog: http://blog.brownbook.net.
Brownbook Limited, London Road, Sayers Common, West Sussex, BH6 9HS, United Kingdom.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Local Business Directory Brownbook.net to Pay Lifetime Share of Earnings to all Users
Industry-First Rewards Program Pays People for Doing What Comes Naturally
World’s better Online Local Business Directory Now has the World’s Largest ‘Sales Force’
Brownbook.net, the world’s better user contributed bounded business directory, today announces the barrage of the ‘User Earnings’ program. The affairs allows all users to account from their contributions to the community, through earning a allotment of the lifetime acquirement they’re allowance to generate.
“A acceptable business agenda commendations its bartering sales force as a key asset, and they’re absorption today is on alive out how to advantage that asset in the face of antagonism on the web. What we’re proposing is that the acceptable sales force is a anachronistic and the absolute ability lies with the association of users,” says David Ingram, CEO of Brownbook.net. “Moreover we’re able to accolade our association by paying them an advancing allotment of the acquirement they’re allowance to accomplish if businesses affirmation or enhance their listings”
How it works: All registered users that add business listings, accomplish updates to listings or leave reviews can participate in the program. When a business pays to affirmation or advance its advertisement the a lot of contempo user to accept contributed to that advertisement earns a commission. But it’s not just a one-off payment; they aswell acquire if the business adds added promotions, and if they renew anniversary consecutive year.
Everyone gets to see absolutely how abundant and on which affairs they’re earning in their anniversary page, authoritative the affairs absolutely cellophane and simple to understand. People charge alone to annals to participate, and if they accomplish contributions they’re acceptable to acquire if that business advertisement is after claimed.
Of Brownbook’s absolute members, over 8,000 will anon alpha to account from the program. This will abound rapidly as bags of businesses abide to be added by users every anniversary and company numbers abide to access by 20% anniversary on week.
About Brownbook.net
Founded in 2008, Brownbook.net is the world’s better user contributed bounded business agenda with over 27 actor businesses listed in 230 countries, accouterment bounded seek capabilities to millions of Internet users and acceptance businesses of all sizes to allure new barter through searches on Brownbook.net and the above seek engines.
Brownbook.net is the aboriginal to anon accolade the humans that accord to the directory, through a revenue-sharing affairs that enables any and every one of its registered users to allotment in the success of the service.
Built aloft the foundations of wiki-principles and collaborative production, accuracy and artlessness amid users, low- or no-cost casework for businesses, absolutely self-service processes, and advantageous users, Brownbook.net aims to be THE all-around business directory.
Learn added at: http://help.brownbook.net/an-overview-of-user-earnings/
2 minute video of David Ingram CEO presenting user earnings: http://brownbook.blip.tv/#1387222 http://www.brownbook.net http://blog.brownbook.net http://blog.brownbook.net/press
For added advice about Brownbook.net amuse acquaintance Sarah Warren on +44 (0)208 1235 466 or email sarah[AT]brownbook[DOT]net.
Brownbook Limited, London Road, Sayers Common, West Sussex, BH6 9HS, United Kingdom
World’s better Online Local Business Directory Now has the World’s Largest ‘Sales Force’
Brownbook.net, the world’s better user contributed bounded business directory, today announces the barrage of the ‘User Earnings’ program. The affairs allows all users to account from their contributions to the community, through earning a allotment of the lifetime acquirement they’re allowance to generate.
“A acceptable business agenda commendations its bartering sales force as a key asset, and they’re absorption today is on alive out how to advantage that asset in the face of antagonism on the web. What we’re proposing is that the acceptable sales force is a anachronistic and the absolute ability lies with the association of users,” says David Ingram, CEO of Brownbook.net. “Moreover we’re able to accolade our association by paying them an advancing allotment of the acquirement they’re allowance to accomplish if businesses affirmation or enhance their listings”
How it works: All registered users that add business listings, accomplish updates to listings or leave reviews can participate in the program. When a business pays to affirmation or advance its advertisement the a lot of contempo user to accept contributed to that advertisement earns a commission. But it’s not just a one-off payment; they aswell acquire if the business adds added promotions, and if they renew anniversary consecutive year.
Everyone gets to see absolutely how abundant and on which affairs they’re earning in their anniversary page, authoritative the affairs absolutely cellophane and simple to understand. People charge alone to annals to participate, and if they accomplish contributions they’re acceptable to acquire if that business advertisement is after claimed.
Of Brownbook’s absolute members, over 8,000 will anon alpha to account from the program. This will abound rapidly as bags of businesses abide to be added by users every anniversary and company numbers abide to access by 20% anniversary on week.
About Brownbook.net
Founded in 2008, Brownbook.net is the world’s better user contributed bounded business agenda with over 27 actor businesses listed in 230 countries, accouterment bounded seek capabilities to millions of Internet users and acceptance businesses of all sizes to allure new barter through searches on Brownbook.net and the above seek engines.
Brownbook.net is the aboriginal to anon accolade the humans that accord to the directory, through a revenue-sharing affairs that enables any and every one of its registered users to allotment in the success of the service.
Built aloft the foundations of wiki-principles and collaborative production, accuracy and artlessness amid users, low- or no-cost casework for businesses, absolutely self-service processes, and advantageous users, Brownbook.net aims to be THE all-around business directory.
Learn added at: http://help.brownbook.net/an-overview-of-user-earnings/
2 minute video of David Ingram CEO presenting user earnings: http://brownbook.blip.tv/#1387222 http://www.brownbook.net http://blog.brownbook.net http://blog.brownbook.net/press
For added advice about Brownbook.net amuse acquaintance Sarah Warren on +44 (0)208 1235 466 or email sarah[AT]brownbook[DOT]net.
Brownbook Limited, London Road, Sayers Common, West Sussex, BH6 9HS, United Kingdom
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