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I'd like to know of a website, preferably with RSS and E-mail feed options, that would be informing of every new place which has adopted payment with Bitcoin, every new online store or other service. A site where users can report sightings of new places that accept Bitcoin, but where there is moderation, so that for every new store that accepts BTC only one news item is released - I don't want to receive a 100 news items about Reddit taking Bitcoin, just one. Anything like that exists?

As far as I know there's nothing simple that does it.

same here

I would be very interested in building this.
Anyone else ?

Go for it! Should be fairly easy for someone w/ some web experience. I suspect a categorized, searchable site of bitcoin-accepting vendors would be extremely popular, especially if users can leave reviews.

Categorization is very important, you're right. Reviews are, too. Geolocalisation, obviously. Ease of submissions ease of research.
I'm thinking about it, don't know yet if I will go for it.

The Bitcoin List (http://www.thebitcoinlist.com/) strives to be exactly this. I update as often as possible and inclusion is free, simply drop me a line via the contact page.

I am a web developer and I actually had one planned up. However, I put the project on hold because I'm thinking it could lead to a lot of "self promotion", people submitting their ad/affiliate/spam site that doesn't have much value to user. They simply need to accept bitcoin payment so they can add themselves to the list. The moderation part need a lot of work and I'm still deciding the best way to do it.

Interesting !
What about an automatic link submission form ? Do you think it would get spammed ? Do you think it would be good but didn't have time to build one ?

A rather long list is to be found here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

I was very much concerened about spam. Also, duplicate entries might be an issue due to misspelling, forgotten hyphens, entries with and without the .com at the end, etc. I figure, if I have to manually approve them all anyway, might as well spend a little more time and make sure they meet a certain standard. Seems to be working well - averaged just under eight hundred page views a day the last two weeks and surpassed 100,000 total since launch during the first week of April.

Now, if I could only figure out how to get visitors to review more sites...

Just curious about your numbers, is this since April of last year?

I didn't phrase that very clearly. Back during the first week of April, (April 6 or 7, depending on the time zone) I passed 100,000 page views. The site was launched at the end of May 2011, so almost two years ago.

The Bitcoin List averaged about 100 page views a day until the beginning of this year when it really took off, through no effort on my part; close to 200 page views/day during January and February and over 300/day in March. March 31st was the day it jumped to just under 800 and it rose to over 1,000 on April 9. After April 13th, it began to taper back off. Yesterday was only 554, the lowest since March 30th.

Referrers to this site are almost exclusively search engines so I'm sure there's some correlation to Bitcoin related publicity, I just haven't taken the time to do any research of my own.

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Pretty scattered around the interwebs.

The Trade page is pretty comprehensive, but nowhere near complete.

Here's a collaboratively built list which can useful to find new additions:

 - http://www.reddit.com/r/btcbase/new

Also, a list here:
 - https://twitter.com/ClubAlpaca/bitcoinmerchants/members

Come check our Catalog on May 5. We also want to be a releavent source of info for new website accepting bitcoin so you can follow us on twitter.

Helpful post, thank you

I am sorry, but a page full of defunct sites is annoying to use, and can't be treated seriously. Prefixing with *offline*, what a joke.

And it looks like your site has almost as much categories as actual entries, which also makes it super annoying to browse, as in each category there is usually just one entry, usually defunct, and some have none. Create categories only when there are at least several sites to put in a category.

Design not very professional too. Too much screenspace for ads in comparison to actual entries.

This is NOT a site I would direct a serious company to for them to check out the Bitcoin economy. This site is a joke, I'd be better not showing it to anyone. You are trying to make money off it now, but a site like that to be professional and representative should not be trying to make money off ads at least for a few years. It should prove its value first, then try to make money. Your site is basically dead from the start.