Archive for the 'local' Category



Who’s Hot on Lopico: The Top 25

For the first time ever, Lopico is releasing its listings of the top rated businesses (by votes) across the site. Not surprisingly, most of these business come from Akron, OH, but Lopico’s presence in other cities is increasing and hopefully there will be more business from other cities the next time the listings are [...]

Happy 3rd Birthday to us!

by J.D. Amer
Lopico turns three today, and while we celebrated the big two with a new feature, this year I’m going to take a look back at some of the things that have happened in the past year.
Starting in September of last year, right before the last birthday, Lopico started making a number of changes [...]

Lopico provides a number of methods for keeping our users honest and our information unbiased, today there’s one more. The review reliability score is an easy way for anyone to voice their opinion for or against a review. Simply navigate to any review and look for the section directly below the review that [...]

It’s hard to believe for those of us in Lopico’s high traffic cities, but there are actually some places that don’t have search yet on Lopico. When search launched on Lopico it was reserved to only the top four cities at the time: Akron, Milwaukee, San Diego, and Columbus. Since then, its reach [...]

Getting there, getting easier

Lopico has had a link to get directions on the site since the day maps went live. Now after eleven and a half minutes of coding with Google’s tremendously simple directions API, the directions are available without leaving Lopico – and come on, who would want to leave Lopico? To get directions, simply [...]

Lopicoing for a cause

It’s Earth Day today – April 22nd – and Lopico is showing its support with the redesigned homepage. But more importantly, Lopico supports local businesses – in fact, that’s the whole point of the site. What you may not know is that when you support local businesses you may be helping the environment. [...]

One More Quick Change

It’s vanity week at Lopico. Today, the second aesthetic change in under 7 days has arrived. The Profile section on Lopico will soon be undergoing some major functional changes, but for today – it’s all about looks. You can see the change to your profile here. Or just have a look at [...]

Two years ago today, I registered the domain name Lopico.com, it didn’t actually launch until December but we can celebrate anyway. How do you celebrate a website’s birthday? With a new logo and a new feature.
First, the new Logo:
The old Lopico logo was great, but with all of the new features added [...]