iBegin Blog

03 Dec, 2007

A Moratorium on City Sites

Posted by: Ahmed Farooq In: Other

Just back from ILM:07 - we had a great time, and met some extremely interesting people (far more than us).

One thing that some people were/are uncomfortable with are our city sites. Though we have always (and will continue to do so) that our sites have the exact same data we sell, and it is what you do with the data that is most important, we still recognize that some can be uncomfortable.

So we have placed a moratorium on city sites for a minimum of 12 months. They have been effectively removed from the front page of iBegin.com as of today.

10 Responses to "A Moratorium on City Sites"

1 | Tim L. Walker

December 3rd, 2007 at 9:34 pm

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That’s too bad… the iBegin city sites were great.

2 | Ask Bjørn Hansen

December 4th, 2007 at 11:17 am

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Tim,

They’re still available at for example http://toronto.ibegin.com/

- ask

3 | Justin

January 19th, 2008 at 6:29 am

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I don’t understand - what exactly were they uncomfortable with?

4 | AhmedF

January 29th, 2008 at 6:28 am

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You have mail Derek

5 | David

February 12th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

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Hm, seems like it’s a tad premature to shut ‘em down.
Sell me the backend! :)

6 | Ahmed Farooq

February 12th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

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Not shut down - just on pause :)

7 | 网站建设

March 9th, 2008 at 7:42 am

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Hm, seems like it’s a tad premature to shut ‘em down.
Sell me the backend! :)

8 | AhmedF

March 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am

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No plans on selling any backend for now :)

9 | ashley059

March 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am

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i hope they will realize that it’s not good to shut it down.

10 | iBegin just became lighter - Tech Soapbox

May 8th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

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[…] We stopped working on #5 over a year ago, and removed all links to the city sites over 5 months ago […]

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