Oodle announced the availability of a beta version of its service in the Washington, D.C., area (http://dc.oodle.com/). Oodle is a free, online service that provides timely access to all the classified listings in a local area, including jobs, housing, services, cars and other items.

Oodle includes listings from the Greater Washington, D.C., area including Northern Virginia (e.g., Alexandria and Fairfax) and Maryland (e.g., Bethesda and Silver Spring). The beta version of the Oodle service, while not yet complete, finds roughly 80,000 new listings each week from a variety of sources including The Washington Post, and online publishers such as Craigslist, Cars.com and eBay.

Oodle launched its beta service in Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia in March, in Miami in April, Boston and LA in May, and New York in June.