Comments on: Mizpee, a mobile service that tells you where to go (for clean bathrooms) http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:25:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mobile Phone Industry News » Round Up: UGC Vs Smut; Google IPhone; Carbon Footprint; Mizpee http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-671106 Mobile Phone Industry News » Round Up: UGC Vs Smut; Google IPhone; Carbon Footprint; Mizpee Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:52:34 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/#comment-671106 [...] – MIzpee, a mobile service which lets you locate the nearest toilet developed by Yojo Mobile, went live today. “You visit the service on your mobile handset browser, and search for bathrooms by city and street address, then see a list of the nearest ones. It includes user-created rankings for how clean each bathroom is, as well as a note about any access fee. It also says whether or not a bathroom has a diaper-changing station, and whether its restricted to a premise’s customers.” It’s a reasonably good idea although I’m not sure there’s a viable busines model for something restricted to toilets. (VentureBeat) [...] [...] – MIzpee, a mobile service which lets you locate the nearest toilet developed by Yojo Mobile, went live today. “You visit the service on your mobile handset browser, and search for bathrooms by city and street address, then see a list of the nearest ones. It includes user-created rankings for how clean each bathroom is, as well as a note about any access fee. It also says whether or not a bathroom has a diaper-changing station, and whether its restricted to a premise’s customers.” It’s a reasonably good idea although I’m not sure there’s a viable busines model for something restricted to toilets. (VentureBeat) [...]

]]> By: Eric Eldon http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-663798 Eric Eldon Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:34:55 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/#comment-663798 Brad and Zemode, I certainly agree that hyperbole is not worth reading. Here's the thing. The company's concept scored it an exceptional amount of blog coverage. That coverage, at least, seems to have resulted in a significant traffic boost. For other startups plotting how to drive traffic, this is valuable information. Mizpee, as I wrote, is a product of Yojo Mobile. It was pretty clearly designed not only to help people find bathrooms but to help Yojo get more brand attention for the next time the company launches a product. Brad and Zemode, I certainly agree that hyperbole is not worth reading.

Here’s the thing. The company’s concept scored it an exceptional amount of blog coverage. That coverage, at least, seems to have resulted in a significant traffic boost.

For other startups plotting how to drive traffic, this is valuable information. Mizpee, as I wrote, is a product of Yojo Mobile. It was pretty clearly designed not only to help people find bathrooms but to help Yojo get more brand attention for the next time the company launches a product.

]]> By: Zemode http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-663630 Zemode Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:11:00 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/#comment-663630 @Brad - 100% with you there Brad. I knew about these guys only coz I happened to see them at SF Beta several months ago. And like you, I hang out in the tech circles a LOT and have never ever heard anybody use this. It obviously has an extremely laughable purpose and that's the only reason I've mentioned about these guys to my friends - to indicate how comical things are getting. At the same SF Beta, I also saw a social networking site for people with curly hair! @Brad – 100% with you there Brad. I knew about these guys only coz I happened to see them at SF Beta several months ago. And like you, I hang out in the tech circles a LOT and have never ever heard anybody use this. It obviously has an extremely laughable purpose and that’s the only reason I’ve mentioned about these guys to my friends – to indicate how comical things are getting.
At the same SF Beta, I also saw a social networking site for people with curly hair!

]]> By: Brad http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-663560 Brad Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:15:42 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/04/mizpee-a-mobile-service-that-tells-you-where-to-go-for-clean-bathrooms/#comment-663560 Another sock puppet company... It kills me how seemingly every new idea has "millions of page views" and "hundreds of thousands" of uniques. I live in San Francisco, right in the heart of it all. All of my friends work in online marketing and tech. I have never heard anyone reference MizPee. Who exactly is using it if not tech people in SF? My suggestion to Matt: Eliminate the hyperbole. I know you don't create it, you're just the messenger. But perhaps insist companies allow you to vet their traffic data first hand if you are going to permit traffic data disclosure? Anyone can "claim" they do "almost x visitors per month". Another sock puppet company…

It kills me how seemingly every new idea has “millions of page views” and “hundreds of thousands” of uniques. I live in San Francisco, right in the heart of it all. All of my friends work in online marketing and tech. I have never heard anyone reference MizPee. Who exactly is using it if not tech people in SF?

My suggestion to Matt: Eliminate the hyperbole. I know you don’t create it, you’re just the messenger. But perhaps insist companies allow you to vet their traffic data first hand if you are going to permit traffic data disclosure? Anyone can “claim” they do “almost x visitors per month”.

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