@Martin Lessard : yeah, you got those two right – “Launch early, update frequently” and “early adopters come from their close social network, hence a better feedback” is indeed a part of our strategy. But we are also pushing web2places to anyone that might find it interesting at Web 2.0 Expo, so the “limited” part is not quite right.

@George Favvas : wow. nice analysis. we (the praized founders) were quite impressed with your reading of it, you are a sharp reader of “in between the lines”!

@Samuel Lavoie : right. the right balance between specific community and network-wide data is a balance we are experimenting with right now, this will play out better in a few months when we have more communities and praized.com up and running…

@Heri : Number one, we are a distributed platform. More on that in the next few months, but this is a strong belief we have. Just google search for “atomization+praized” and read what we have been writing about this.

Two, adding a place is available on beta.mocolocal.com, just look in the footer. It’s not available on web2places.com yet, because this one uses our API and we were a bit tight on timing for release (can I add our dev team did a supremo excellente job on this one, as the “Cheerleader Tech Officer”?)

And three is right on the spot. Our motto is “trust your tribes” after all. That’s one of the key insight we think we bring to the table, there is not one list of “best x in city z”… there’s lots of them, it’s a question of POV.

Thanks for the coverage, we appreciate it and we enjoy the conversation!

Yeah I noticed that. But as Georges wrote, they are connected to a places database (yellowpages in canada) so that should work.

Georges,

1. might be. might be not. my opinion is that they still have their cards open

2. looks like it. I’be disappointed though if a user couldn’t add a brand new place

3. it’s a conscious decision. if you think about it, why would mocolocal users have the same opinion about a place than web2.0 crowd.

Samuel,

I don’t think you can use this to raze a place. I haven’t seen any “negative” votes. seems like praizes only push places up.

1. It’s probably also safe to assume their goal is not to be a destination site per se, but to provide tools to existing sites that have a preexisting community/traffic centered around a common interest, place or time.

2. They’re pulling data from existing business directories (Yellow Pages and Localeze) so they’re really just focused on adding a social layer to local search.

3. They’ve also decided not to share “praizes” across different partner sites. For example, “Praized HQ” shows up on both MoCo Loco and Web2Places, but the “praizers” and comments are distinct. This could be because they’re early in their release cycle and still testing, or (more likely) a conscious decision not to be yet another community, and not to compete with their distribution channel.