Rewind to the year 2000. Virtually every TV ad featured both a URL and an AOL keyword. "Visit us online at weather.com or AOL KW: Weather." The pundits said the AOL walled garden would come down. They were right. Will…
Last year we broke a story about Skype's new initiative with local pay-per-call. Given its half a billion global users, the company began to monetize the calls made to businesses, large and small. These calls usually cost the user, but…
The 360-degree views of real estate listings were remarkable for their time, but are giving way to new technology that lets users look at many things at once, says Microsoft Live Labs Technical Fellow Gary Flake, who was speaking last…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to recent posts on our Mobile Local Media blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. -- Op Ed: Why Apple…
Realtor.com has gotten 1.3 million downloads of its iPhone app, which launched in January. “It is the fastest growing app in the category,” President Errol Samuelson told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco last week. “The content is…
Gannett’s local newspapers and TV stations will begin selling Yahoo inventory, considerably boosting the size of Yahoo’s local sales efforts. The deal, which involves 81 newspaper organizations and seven of its 23 TV stations, is similar to the efforts of…
Sometimes I like to invent words. In the previous post we talked about "check-in fraud" (no, not check fraud). I'm not sure if this term has been coined before, but I think it's a good way to start describing a…
Today I had the chance to talk to Kent Lindstrom, CEO of LBS start-up PlacePop. The company is building mobile loyalty card apps to reward users who visit local businesses, and allow those merchants to drive foot traffic. Think of…
By now, you've probably heard about Aaron Sorkin's film "The Social Network" about the inception and rise of Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and is set to release Oct. 1. It looks to be part historical/biopic, part commentary…
By now, you've probably heard about Aaron Sorkin's film "The Social Network" about the inception and rise of Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and is set to release Oct. 1. It looks to be part historical/biopic, part commentary…
Michael Zimbalist, who runs R&D at The New York Times Co., told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that the rise of social networks has spearheaded a very real shift from “the paradigm of publishing to the…
Recently on TechCrunch.tv, former scientist turned hedge fund manager, turned author, Andy Kessler picked "voice" as the next big area of innovation. Among other things he argues (in adjacent video segments) that screens aren't intuitive, and we're moving toward interfaces…
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that his “customer first” brokerage is likely to be in 16 markets by year-end 2010. The site is currently in 12 markets and employs 100 agents.…
It's no secret that "apps vs. mobile Web" is one of the heated debates in mobile development circles. This is also one of the points of friction in the growing battle between Google and Apple. Apple is pushing for an app-centric…
Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we've entered "the third movement of information" during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real…
Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we've entered "the third movement of information" during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real…
Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark made another of his regular visits to Brad Inman's stage at Real Estate Connect today, which is taking place in San Francisco. Newmark, who humbly refers to himself as working in customer service, noted that Craigslist…
Everyone is fighting for a better, more cost-efficient way of producing content for Web sites. But is the so-called “content mill” search optimized approach of a Demand Media, Associated Content or Examiner.com the only way to achieve this? Whether you…
Everyone is fighting for a better, more cost-efficient way of producing content for Web sites. But is the so-called “content mill” search optimized approach of a Demand Media, Associated Content or Examiner.com the only way to achieve this? Whether you…
YPG in Canada took yet another step outside its core Yellow Pages business this week with the acquisition of CanadianDriver.com, which will complement its Trader Corp. auto classifieds unit. CanadianDriver.com, which is dubbed "Canada's online auto magazine," is an 11-year-old…
