A session today at the Web 2.0 expo examined how Twitter can be used as a business tool. Twitter has been gaining lots of momentum over the past year and has more recently reached mainstream status. But beyond the minutiae…
A session at the Web 2.0 conference today dug deep into strategies for traditional media companies to use APIs to better distribute their content online. First, what the heck is an API? Standing for application programming interface, it’s a set…
Local SEO guru Andrew Shotland just alerted me to the fact that Google is now serving the local "10 pack" in searches that don't include geographic modifiers (original discovery by Google Maps expert Mike Blumenthal). For those unfamiliar, the 10…
As rumors over the past week have indicated, Skype's iPhone app will launch tomorrow and will be available in the app store. The application will allow users to operate the Skype client from their iPhones. Like Skype's online service, this…
Techcrunch has a guest post today from Google VP of engineering for mobile Vic Gundotra, which pinpoints the factors that will drive the growth of the mobile Web. Among them are the easy-to-use mobile browsers (i.e., iPhone and Android-based devices),…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. The Knot Launches Local Wedding Sites The Knot has launched 75 local URL sites as well as several niche…
We did a podcast interview this week for MobilOpen on the subject of mobile marketing. It gets into lots of the driving factors behind the growth of the mobile Web, and what that means for big and small advertisers. This…
Krillion announced today that it will power product inventory search on the ShopSavvy application for Google Android based phones. This app gets high marks on the cool factor. Produced by Big In Japan, ShopSavvy has been a popular free Android…
Following yesterday's preview of Dex's new line of mobile search products, I had the chance to talk to the company today about the ins and outs. First, the product line consists of an SMS search tool, a mobile Web site,…
A great deal has already been written about the work Microsoft is doing with Ford to make the car itself a more powerful mobile device. I just came across an interesting video that shows some of these features in action.…
As pre-announced at last week's Marketplaces conference, DexKnows has launched a new line of branded local search products, including an iPhone app. The line is built and powered by mobilePeople, a company that has built strong applications for a number…
AdMob has supplied a steady stream of monthly reports that extrapolate mobile market data from its ad network. Its latest report (February) has a few interesting points about mobile Web traffic shares among smartphone operating systems in the U.S. and…
Fwix, a social news site that launched last summer, has just launched a local search iPhone app (via TechCrunch). It will be an all-in-one local app that aggregates latest news, blog posts, Yelp reviews, crime reports and other info that…
Thanks again to all those who attended Marketplaces 2009. If you missed the show, or any of our coverage, below is a collection of posts from the week. Marketplaces 2009: Top 10 Takeaways Thanks to everyone who came out to…
Thanks to everyone who attended Marketplaces 2009, and a special shout out to those who took part in the Twitter conversation. You can check out most of the tweets from the show here. Elsewhere, Andrew Shotland talks about the value…
In a session at Marketplaces 2009 this afternoon on building local online content and services, the oft-cited challenge of scalability took center stage. “The trick with local is to operate at scale,” said Matthew Berk, Marchex's executive VP of product…
Rob Curley and Chris Jennewein of Greenspun Interactive gave a lively presentation this morning at the Marketplaces conference representing the yin and yang of product features and business models. This is often in a state of imbalance at online newspaper…
Marketplaces is under way with the opening keynote from Jeff Berman, MySpace president of sales and marketing. MySpace has made some inroads to attracting SMBs to use the social network as a marketing platform. Most recently, this has included its…
The Marketplaces conference just officially kicked off. We'll be doing our best to live blog the event. First up, after the requisite intros and data presentations, is MySpace's Jeff Berman. Check back here for ongoing coverage. If you're at the…
Related to the previous post, Lee Gientke, OrangeSoda's director of partner development, blogs today about local intent for mobile searches. This is a good preview of the comments we'll hear next week from Gientke and 12 other speakers during our…
