vFlyer, Inc., operator of the vFlyer.com website, is a Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

 company founded by Aaron Sperling

Aaron Sperling

Aaron Sperling is an American businessman and entrepreneur.Sperling was the co-founder of business web-service firm Application Park which was acquired by enterprise software company Epicentric and the co-founder of vFlyer, a classified ad creation, management and submission platform that enables...

 and Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto is a Polish-born serial entrepreneur responsible for co-founding several early stage companies including vFlyer , Epicentric and RandomNoise...

 in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

. The company enables online sellers and sales professionals (realtors, auto dealers, service providers, etc.) to syndicate and distribute their product or service listings to online marketplaces that include Oodle

Oodle

Oodle, Inc. is an online marketplace based out of San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2005 by ex-Excite executives Craig Donato, Scott Kister and Faith Sedlin.-Overview:...

, Vast.com, Google Base

Google Base

Google Base was an online database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content, such as text, images, and structured information in formats such as XML, PDF, Excel, RTF, or WordPerfect. As of September 2010, the product has since been promoted to Google Merchant Center...

, Trulia

Trulia

Trulia is an online residential real estate site for home buyers, sellers, renters and real estate professionals. It lists properties for sale and rent as well as neighborhood information and community insights...

, Craigslist

Craigslist

Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements, with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums....

, HotPads.com

HotPads.com

HotPads.com is an map-based rental housing and real estate search engine. Launched in November 2005, the site allows users to search for housing using a graphical map. Listings are displayed at their addresses, allowing users to conduct a location-based search. Through the graphical interface,...

, Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 Classifieds, eBay

EBay

eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

 Classifieds, and others.

History

vFlyer was begun as a project in 2004 by Application Park co-founder Aaron Sperling

Aaron Sperling

Aaron Sperling is an American businessman and entrepreneur.Sperling was the co-founder of business web-service firm Application Park which was acquired by enterprise software company Epicentric and the co-founder of vFlyer, a classified ad creation, management and submission platform that enables...

 and Epicentric

Epicentric

Epicentric, Inc., was an Enterprise software company and a provider of enterprise portal solutions for Global 2000 companies. Made popular by custom portal sites like My Yahoo!, enterprise portals enabled businesses to deliver integrated Web services to their customers , partners and employees...

 co-founder Oliver Muoto to allow online sellers syndicate listings to online classified ad sites. The company launched on October 2, 2006 and was featured in a New York Times article.

The company has been self-funded by its two founders and has made significant inroads in the real estate community. The company was named the Most Innovative Web Service by Inman News in 2007.

External links

• vFlyer.com - official website
• vFlyerBlog.com - official website