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1.2 million venues have been buzz’d

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

If you’re planning to go out for the night in any of the major US cities then you might want to try out buzz’d. By texting your zipcode to buzz’d’s shortcode you can be told the answer to the question on everybody’s lips - “What’s going on around me right now?”

There are now 1.2 million venues in the database with 10% of those being added by users themselves. The top cities being New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and London in the UK and not surprisingly the most popular days for usage are Friday, followed by Saturday and then Thursday.

If you’re going out this weekend why don’t you give it a try and let us know how you get on.

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Investors get Buzzd over location-based social networking

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Buzzd, which specialises in location-based city guides and social networking, has reeled in its first round of investment led by Greycroft Partners and Monitor Ventures but so far hasn’t put a figure on the funding.

Buzzd says it’s going to put the funding towards “product development and distribution” and will get a new board member in the form of Fern Mandelbaum of Monitor.

What’s clever about Buzzd is that, as well as delivering all the usual city guide info from the likes of Time Out, it also makes use of social networking techniques to give users reviews on bars and the like from their friends - and who do you trust more to send you to a good bar than your mates? It’s also done a tie-up with a tequila firm, so users can even send their friends free drinks - nice touch.

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