After many months of only running into the folks at Urban Mapping at conferences, I recently visited their new S.F. offices to get a proper update. There's lots happening there. Some of you may know the company as providing the…
The City of Seattle has modified its tough Yellow Pages opt-out ordinance, but apparently not sufficiently to make a federal lawsuit challenging the ordinance go away. The city has eliminated a $148 per ton fee for Yellow Pages deliveries in…
"Write once, read everywhere” concepts are popular ones with so many platforms to serve. Agendize is probably the king of these for listings and appointments, serving more than 66 unique platforms. Localeze and Universal Business Listings are other key players…
What do you do to keep your customer after your deal of the day runs? That’s a big question for tens of thousands of SMBs -- many of which have used deal a day as a loss leader and have…
Google announced yesterday that its Latitude mobile social product will integrate place check-ins. Active first on Android (iPhone TBD), it includes the following features: -- Notifications: Turn on check-in notifications in Latitude’s settings and get a notification to check in…
The city of San Francisco appears to be next in line to pursue draconian restrictions on the distribution of print Yellow Pages directories. As reported in SF Gate, David Chiu, president of the city's board of supervisors, is pushing legislation…
I recently had the chance to follow up with Locomatix, a company I was first introduced to at our ILM:10 show. Utilizing technology developed at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), it joins the emerging sector of platforms and toolsets to build location-based…
Gannett announced during its earnings call yesterday that it is now producing 264 hyperlocal neighborhood sites in 10 markets. This includes the recent addition of 30 hyperlocal neighborhoods in Sacramento. The hyperlocal neighborhoods, produced in conjunction with DataSphere, have put…
In December, we discussed the implications of Groupon's pact with public Wi-Fi network provider JiWire as a potentially significant next step for social commerce -- hyperlocal group buying that leverages geotargeting to serve nearby deals to connected customers. The partnership has…
While I have spent much of the past few years practicing the art of local SEO for enterprises, when I saw "The Social Network" had garnered eight Oscar nominations, I started to think there might be something to this whole social…
