Using Townster anyone is able to do a local-search, without ever having to enroll with the community.

Townster combines a Local-Search and Advice portal with social networking. Using this, one can for example, not only discover the location of an interesting bar, a good restaurant or a competent hairdresser, but also find out who in the community goes to these places, and then facilitates meeting people.

This Local Web-Community was launched at the start of July 2007 (see our earlier post). Until now, many of the services and attractions of the website were only available to members. Even a search operation was only for registered users. This serious disadvantage has now been removed.

Now, any user can run search queries and navigate to the numerous zones and attractions on Townster, without being registered. This was announced on the blog of this Web 2.0 site. Registration is only required when someone would personally like to add a location or rate something. Of course, register also if you want to join the Community, and wish to contact other users.

As before, unfortunately the actual search results are relatively sparse. One hopes that through the now-improved general accessibility of the site, the number of users who add entries and contributions will grow accordingly.