Urbanspoon is one of the first companies to announce a local search iPhone app (others are here). The application acts almost like a local restaurant eight-ball that lets users define cuisine, price or other factors, before shaking the device to…
Adfare has joined the growing list of companies looking to work with Internet Yellow Pages in order to tap the sizable opportunity of video-enabling their advertisers (3.2 million small and medium-sized businesses). But as Director of Business Development Frank Rocco…
Local.com today announced it has added the ability for users to write reviews directly on the site. This will include ratings (five-star system) and reviews that registered users can submit and track over time. The question of reviews in the…
AgendiZe today announced it will launch an API for Yellow Pages publishers to enhance the videos they are shooting for small businesses, and hosting on their sites. The "video to action" API lets publishers create overlays for videos that bring…
Self-serve video ad provider Jivox announced a $10 million round today. We wrote about the company, which lets advertisers create short ads using stock video, a few months ago. It also distributes these ads through a publisher network, which has grown…
Here are last week’s highlights from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. On How Many Sites Do SMBs Advertise? The folks at Palore sent me a new data set…
The folks at Palore sent me a new data set they're releasing tomorrow. You might remember, the company recently changed its business model to focus on all the granular data it was scraping from local search sites. Since then it's…
New auto repair information resource RepairPal went live today. The site steps into an undeserved market segment by providing information about the user's specific car and its maintenance needs. One central use case, for example, is to check what a…
Following Steve Ballmer's comments last week that print newspapers will be dead in 10 years, Seattle PI columnist Bill Virgin retorts that it will be Microsoft's weakened position that is more evident. He uses Vista's weak reception, the Wii's dominance…
Lots of talk about the 3G iPhone this week. We'll see lots of local applications developed that make use of faster speeds and GPS capability, as speculated. The $199 price tag will also make it more mainstream friendly than before.…
Marchex has launched a new ad platform called Adhere. Essentially this brings together the company's OpenList local content network with the premium publishers in its IndustryBrains network under one PPC platform. The biggest driver for the new platform was to simplify…
Two news items caught my eye today as they relate to our ongoing coverage of interactive product placement in various entertainment media. First, Sony has announced a deal that will bring in-game ads to PlayStation 3 games. It will work…
Microsoft today expanded Search & Give, a program that rewards searches in the form of money sent to a preferred charity. After a user signs up for the program, a penny is donated for every search to a choice of…
If Internet Yellow Pages can work together with search engines, it will be a major impetus to the growth in local online video advertising, contends Robyn Rose, VP of marketing for Superpages.com. Superpages has been an early mover with online…
The folks at Common Craft have put together another video with their signature elementary style. This one explains the underlying benefits of social media marketing for SMBs in an abstract but informative way (see previous post on their social bookmarking video).…
Here are last week’s highlights from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Curley on HyperLocal, The Washington Post and the New Vegas Venture Some industry bloggers like to throw…
AgendiZe's new Contact Widgets are now live across all listings in Yellowpages.ca. We wrote about them previously, prior to the official release. Below is an update with added info and screenshots. Local search software developer AgendiZe has announced an expanded partnership…
Om Malik reports that the hotly anticipated 3G iPhone, rumored to come out next month, will have GPS capability (by federal mandate). The provider is rumored to be Broadcom -- a big win for the chip maker, which only recently…
News.com provides screenshots of Google's Android operating system, straight from this week's Google I/O conference in San Francisco. It is a touch screen interface with a home screen that looks a lot like the iPhone. Like the iPhone, lots of…
CNET is reporting the rumor that MenuPages could be close to acquisition by an unnamed suitor. If past partnerships are any indication, it could be IAC/Citysearch. Or perhaps Yelp? Keep an eye out.
