After Deal of the Day: TipCity Offers Flash Deals
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 Latitude Integrates Check-Ins (Finally)
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…
San Francisco Latest to Propose Tough Anti-YP Measure
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…
LBS Picks and Shovels: A Conversation With Locomatix
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 Now Producing 264 Hyperlocal Neighborhoods
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…
Social Local Media: Groupon’s Hyperlocal Play — A Next Step for Deals?
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…
‘What Do We Do in Social?’
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…
The Week in Mobile: BIA/Kelsey Mobile News Roundup
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our mobile coverage. We'll slowly be phasing out our Mobile Local Media blog so that we can consolidate content here on…
Regional Help Wanted Founder Creates ‘Digital Valpak’-like Service
Angie's List, Kudzu and The Washington Post's new ServiceAlley are providing group buying promotions for home and trade services. But is group buying the right paradigm for home and trade services? Regional Help Wanted Cofounder Eric Straus says no. Instead,…
BIA/Kelsey Expands Social Media Focus
Today I am excited to announce that BIA/Kelsey has greatly enhanced its focus on social media to include dedicated coverage on our Local Media Watch blog and a new Continuous Advisory Service called Social Local Media. BIA/Kelsey Analyst Jed Williams…
Management Shake-Up at Local Insight Media
Local Insight Media President and CEO Scott Pomeroy has resigned, effective Friday. Pomeroy was replaced as interim CEO by Scott Brubaker, a director at the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal, and since October 2010, LIM's chief restructuring officer. This move…
Building the Netflix for the Physical World: A Conversation With Foursquare
Yesterday I had the chance to talk to Foursquare GM Evan Cohen. A former Jupiter analyst and Bebo exec, Cohen was brought aboard last year to help steer the ship amid rapid growth. The wide reaching discussion hit upon the…
Everyday Health Launches Local Health Deals
Everyday Health, the health portal with 26 million unique visitors coming from its 25 brands, including Revolution Health, Mayo Clinic and Drugstore.com, is going local via Health Deals, a group buying site. The site will leverage the company’s extensive email…
Greystripe Moves Down Market With Time Warner’s MNI
Mobile ad network Greystripe today announced a deal with Media Networks Inc. to better sell locally targeted mobile advertising. It's mostly a channel deal that utilizes MNI's sales force to sell local ads on Greystripe's mobile network. This lets Greystripe better…
Facebook CTO: We’re All About Mobile
It's a well-cited stat that almost 200 million Facebook users access the network monthly on mobile devices. That's out of a total user base that is approaching 600 million (1/10 of the planet). At the Inside Mobile Apps conference in…
Google Boosts Mobile Ads (Again)
Google continues a long line of recent mobile advertising additions with today's launch of Boost ads for mobile. This is essentially the mobile version of Boost, which it launched on the desktop in October. There it joined Tags in an…
Reply.com Acquires Real Estate, Home and Trade URLs
Leads for home and trade and real estate come in many flavors. Some come from intuitive URLs. Reply.com, a marketplace for local and category specific leads, reinforced the latter today, acquiring FastRoofingBids.com, FastRoofingLeads.com and LeadToRealty.com. Reply.com CEO Payam Zamani, in…
A Mobile Local App That Saves Lives … Nice
Often we'll cover mobile apps that actually utilize the form factor (portability, location, camera, accelerometer, etc.). Not often enough, we'll cover apps that accomplish some degree of social good. Sometimes we'll hit up both, like with Good Guide or City…
Dissecting Twitter’s Top Line: How Revenues Can Fly to $150 Million
Facebook created quite a stir (again) with the recent projection that its global revenues could surpass $4 billion in 2011 ... the majority coming from small businesses that are self serving. Now Twitter is abuzz, as eMarketer predicts that top-line income will triple…
Initial Speaker Lineup Set for ILM East, March 21-23 in Boston
We’ve just announced the initial lineup for ILM East in Boston, March 21-23, which follows hot on the heels of our Interactive Local Media 2010 conference in Santa Clara -- possibly the largest local event ever, with 681 attendees. ILM…