It will also marry a company that has up to now focused on being an information repository, with businesses that provide directory and other services rooted in more transactions.
In the council booth at the festival here, volunteers provided directories that listed telephone numbers for members of Congress, other federal agencies, political parties and news organizations.
Mr. Reid's company, which is based in San Francisco, already provides directories of music files on the Internet, but says on its World Wide Web site, "We only point to files that we believe are available with the permission of the legal copyright holder".
If you need help locating a pro, the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys are great resources that provide directories on their websites to help you find someone.
There are also numerous websites that provide directories of doctors who conduct medical marijuana evaluations in the states where it is legal, such as this directory from medicalmarijuana.com and this search feature from United Patients Group.
Mr. Kahn also moved to discontinue the telephone companies' wasteful practice of providing free directory assistance for customers.
Local.com has patented providing "enhanced directory assistance" via a mobile network, filing date back to July , 2002
OurPictures software aims to facilitate printing by providing a directory of retail photofinishers in or close to a given ZIP code.
Avvo, which has raised $132 million to date, works by providing a directory of lawyers who are then rated by both the platform and the consumers.
The startup also enables gamers to show off their creations on the Web, providing a directory of popular worlds on Minefold so that other players can clone the worlds they like and start playing with a few clicks.
