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Gee, this really looks like a useful Android mashup

 You gotta hand it to snarky gossip site Valleywag. Sometimes they break news as well.
Written by Russell Shaw, Contributor

 

You gotta hand it to snarky gossip site Valleywag. Sometimes they break news as well.

Like this morning, when they've posted what appears to be the first-ever screencaps from a Google Phone-like, Android-assisted mash-up.

Said mash-up in question combines location-specific restaurant and other attractions info from a company called What's Open, with Google Maps.

I guess the goal would be to get this mash-up on cell phones, and then sculpt some sort of revenue stream that would generate pay-to-call restaurant reservations and other monetizations to participating What's Open advertisers as well as carriers.

Finally, a pic of the actual mash. Sorry for the blurry but sometimes the nature of the leaks and how they are obtained are such that visually attuned, high-res jpgs just aren't available.

OK, with that said:

Hmm. Could this be a Citysearch-killer? Maybe I need to write another post on that. 

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