A few weeks ago, we covered the launch of DudaMobile and its low maintenance mobile Web site building tool. Yesterday Duda made more news by partnering with transactional tool provider Agendize. The partnership brings Agendize's signature appointment scheduling to Duda's mobile Web…
In addition to announcing 1 billion users per week, You may have heard about Google's new "Instant" search feature launched today at its Search event in San Francisco. The new search paradigm will serve results in real time as users…
Following up on our coverage and initial reactions to Facebook's Places launch, my monthly column on Search Engine Watch digs a bit deeper. Below is the teaser and link. As non-cave dwellers have likely heard, Facebook has launched its own location…
Techcrunch reports today that a check-in based deal for Virgin America, run by Loopt, resulted in Virgin's fifth-highest revenue day ever. Two-for-one tickets from California cities to Cancun or Los Cabos were offered during a four-hour period to anyone who…
A new partnership with Foursquare will give Vlingo (voice search app) the ability to check in to local places by voice. In addition to standard Vlingo features like texting, e-mailing and Web search, users can now prompt check-ins by simply…
You probably heard today that Google launched a voice dialing feature within Gmail. This isn't necessarily Google Voice (which is basically a call connection service), but rather a voice over IP client, akin to Skype, right within Gmail. The thing…
Followers of this blog (and of the mobile space) are well aware of the ongoing apps vs. mobile Web debate. In one corner sits Apple and an app-centric mobile universe. In the other is Google -- motivated by its core…
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. -- Chitika: Mobile Local Queries See Higher CTRs…
Every once in a while we see affirmations of the general premise that mobile and local ads perform better than non-targeted equivalents (at the risk of sounding obvious). Mobile ad network Chitika has been measuring ad performance and releasing its…
Millennial Media is out with its July Mobile Mix report (highlights after the jump). The mobile ad network releases the report monthly, covering activity on its network. This most notably includes the mobile devices, operating systems and apps where it's…
As widely speculated over the past couple of days (even months), Facebook has officially turned on geolocation capability. This has come in the form of a new feature called "Places," announced today from a press event at its Palo Alto…
Millennial Media is out with its July Mobile Mix report. The mobile ad network releases the report monthly, covering activity on its network. This most notably includes the mobile devices, operating systems and apps where it's seeing the most ad…
SiteImpulse's Website Monitoring Blog has produced a graphic (seen below) that mashes together all of the Facebook usage figures in one place. Though much of this is already publicly available, it's good to see it aggregated in one place. Two…
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. -- New Google Voice Search Announced (and 25%…
Today at a press event at its San Francisco office, Google unveiled Voice Actions for Android, an evolved and more intuitive way to search for information on a mobile device. Of course this includes Web search, like Google's voice search on the…
Flush with new cash, Foursquare continues to upgrade its feature set. We've long said that game mechanics (scoring badges, mayorships, etc.) will lose novelty and a "value exchange" of monetary significance would have to develop. Foursquare agrees. Meanwhile, nearby specials…
Mobile local coupon player Shooger has come a long way since our last formal briefing, including an Android app to join iPhone, and a BlackBerry app on the way. It's also built its way up to 100,000 deals from 50,000…
Twitter today made two big hires (via TechCrunch) in an effort to "ramp up the advertising platform." Dan Coughlin joins as Eastern U.S. sales director, while Amanda Levy will be his Western U.S. counterpart. Coughlin spent the past few years…
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. -- Customer Loyalty Simplified: A Conversation With Fanminder…
Today I had the chance to talk to the management team at Fanminder, a start-up working on simple tools for local merchants to communicate with and reward customers. Similar to philosophies we've heard lately (such as PlacePop), this involves fostering…
