Steve Espinosa's budding Local Search News site has begun to produce podcasts. We're the guest on the second episode -- a discussion about mobile search and mobile technology in general. The podcast builds off our guest column on his site…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Skype Redefines Itself: It's All About Local I’ve spent the past few months in talks with Skype about how…
I’ve spent the past few months in talks with Skype about how the company would like to diversify its product model, and better position itself as a tool to generate leads for local businesses. Perhaps the timing couldn’t be better…
Mobile ad network Millennial Media released its first monthly Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (SMART). This extrapolates market data based on the activity it sees on its network -- much like the reports we've covered from the likes…
Jumptap took an evolutionary step today with the launch of its tapMatch mobile ad targeting platform. The company has traditionally provided a range of mobile products, including a white-label search platform for publishers and carriers like AT&T and Virgin Mobile.…
Superpages today officially launched its iPhone application. This joins iPhone apps from all the major U.S. Yellow Pages publishers, as they each try to solidify brands and build traffic levels on the quickly growing mobile Web. Some of the features…
We've written recently how Twitter and other real-time feed based communication tools have potential integrations with local search. We're also hearing a lot about how Twitter can be used for a new kind of search -- used to comb through…
TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy poses the specialist vs. generalist question, as it relates to mobile devices. It's an issue we've raised here before: Despite improving smartphone market penetration and quality standards, are they hybrid plays that lose quality in the many…
Over at Local Search News, my latest column posted. I also did a podcast with LSN's Steve Espinosa over the weekend that should be available soon. The column has lots of data from our recent mobile ad revenue forecast, but…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. App Store: 1 Billion Served (Almost) At a rate of 900 apps downloaded per second, Apple is projected to…
At a rate of 900 apps downloaded per second, Apple is projected to hit 1 billion sometime next Saturday morning (it's just over 930 million at the time of this post). Open app marketplaces are a key ingredient in the…
MapQuest launched a feature that lets those celebrating Easter find the closest Easter egg hunts. These include formal hunts for the general public (search technology hasn't reached the point of indexing private backyard events). It's an interesting integration of local…
The folks at Mixpo have posted some of the performance metrics they're seeing from their online video ad product. Just yesterday, we heard from Brownbook that listings containing video were showing 5x to 9x response rates (CTRs) over those that…
Following up on last week's post about utilizing Twitter for local advertising, Local Search News' Steve Espinosa argues that Twitter itself should provide better tools to do this. The gist of his argument is that local (or location) is inherent…
In February, Charles Laughlin and I toured western Europe to meet with interesting mobile and local search companies. One of the more memorable meetings was with Brownbook, the U.K.-based site that is lowering the barriers for SMBs to establish a…
In an under-reported story, Valpak has begun to experiment with mobile distribution of its signature coupons. So far this has included an iPhone optimized Web site and next up could be a native iPhone app. This could come at the…
Canada's Yellow Pages Group has become the latest North American directory publisher to launch an iPhone application. This joins every major U.S. publisher (most recently R.H. Donnelley), to announce new mobile products. Along with the iPhone app will be a…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. NAA 2009: Paying Attention to Newspapers (Still) Next week is the Newspaper Association of America’s Annual Convention in San…
Yelp has had lots of success with its iPhone app, which currently accounts for 5 percent of its overall traffic. This is partly because its base of urban "foodies" maps well to iPhone user bases. This was a smart platform…
Nokia Executive VP Anssi Vanjoki gave this morning's keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, explaining the global mobile giant's vision of the future mobile Web, and why it paid $8 billion for Navteq. Nokia's influence and positioning…
