Categories:

• Photography
• Baby, house, pet sitting, care-giving
• Web design(website look and feel, CSS, XHTML)
• Graphics design(unrelated to web)

Regions:

• Portland, OR
• Anywhere

The “Anywhere” region simply means there’s no restriction on the region or the location of the work. It makes a lot of sense to have that for categories such as Web design and Graphics design as the work can be done anywhere in some cases.

That’s it. You got what you asked for. Thanks and please keep the requests coming.

One of the best ways to find a good accountant is to get recommendations from your friends. You can go the traditional route by calling each friend to get an answer or by waiting for the next group gathering to pop your question. Alternatively, you can use UberSquare to get recommendations quickly. If you’ve established a circle of friends on UberSquare, their recommendations on service providers such as accountants, lawyers, contractors, etc, will be available to you instantaneously.

By clicking on the “Your contacts” tab on UberSquare, you’ll be provided with a list of providers in various categories.

From there, you can search for service providers by simply typing in a keyword and UberSquare will return the matching results:

By using the trusted network of friends and family, you can help your friends and family by writing a service provider review and then sharing it automatically. Simply click on the “add a service provider review” link on the sidebar to the right and you can recommend a service provider in whichever way you want. Because your reviews can only be seen by your network(the people you trust), you can be completely honest in your comments with no worries.

At UberSquare, we do understand that not everyone has established their network of friends yet or that there may not be a recommendation in the category you’re interested in. In our next post, we’ll talk about how we solve that at UberSquare.

In most cases, we really don’t know where to start, let alone finding the right person for the job. Friends’ recommendations help sometimes but in cases that they can’t, finding the right service provider become a time-consuming and sometimes expensive quest. Yellow pages? We’re frozen by just looking at the yellow book. Shouldn’t it be easier in this internet age?

So in the summer of 2006, I started working on a website to solve just this problem. We should have a convenient place for consumers and service providers to meet effectively. Service providers should have an abundance of jobs to select from. Consumers should be able to provide feedbacks on the work. Such feedbacks are invaluable to consumers who may be looking to get similar types of work done. Everyone should also be able to share their list of service providers with friends and family easily. All of the aforementioned considerations went to the design of the website and as a result, we now have UberSquare!

In the near future, I’ll be writing about how UberSquare can help you. Meanwhile, check it out and let me know what you think!