2. about buzzd
buzzd (“your city, real time”) is the
award-winning, real-time social city
guide for your mobile device.
 Delivers up-to-the-minute reviews and
ratings from friends, buzzd members, and
other real-time content from twitter, gowalla,
foursquare, loopt, brightkite, etc.
 Aggregates static content feeds from zagat,
flavorpill, citysearch, metromix, upcoming,
and many more
 Real-time activity drives users to view and
act upon local inventory
 Featured by Apple, BlackBerry & Android, as
high as #2 top overall app for BlackBerry
and #64 top free app for Apple, featured free
app for Android on Verizon VCAST
5. key strengths
 Sentiment stream aggregation and contextual indexing
(e.g. “buzzdmeter”)
 Content management (venue/event databases + UGC)
 Rapid mobile application development & distribution
(BlackBerry, Apple, Android, Nokia, AT&T, Boost/Sprint,
Cricket, metroPCS, T-mobile, USCellular, Verizon)
 Monetization through targeted display & local CPC
advertising
 $500k in 2009 with run rate of $100k in Jan 2010, est
2010 revenue > $2mm
 Marketing (mobile/fixed web SEO, SEM)
9. recent v2.0 product launches (dec 09)
Buzzd Brings Its Social City Guide To Android (12/23/09)
“The app‟s „buzzdmeter‟ gives you a real-time measure of activity at popular bars,
restaurants and nightclubs in your city, users can see the places with the most real-time
activity (the buzz) in their city…”
Twitter's Mixer Labs Buy Puts LBS in the Spotlight (12/24/09)
“With buzzd, you can track what other users are saying about a particular place on
Twitter to get a feel for the hottest places in your area on any given night.”
Android This Week: Google’s Phone Gets Buzz (12/26/09)
“…lots of people welcomed the Android version of Buzzd, the social city and nightlife
mobile app. It culls data from Twitter and shows graphical views of which locations in
a given area are being talked about.”
10. product roadmap 2010-2012
 2010 Q1 Complete buzzd 2.x
 2010 Q2 Prototype buzzd 3.x (application network/framework)
 2010 H2 Begin release of components of buzzd 3.x,
 2011 Prototype new applications, begin rollout (+3 apps in 2011)
 2012 Complete rollout of new applications (+4 Apps in 2012)