The whirlwind that is AdTech San Francisco has come and gone and as the dust settles and my notes are organized, a few companies stick out with new ideas. Of the thousands of companies at the show, only a handful…
Here is a recap of posts from the last week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. The Examiner's Free Metro Model; 2 Million Uniques In light of BostonNow’s closure this week (apparently for…
Just a quick note to point out that UMI's geotargeted keyword generation tool (among other things) has launched today. Details of the platform and the concept behind it are in our past write-up (scroll).
Ripple is one of the early leaders in the nascent category of out-of-home advertising. For those unfamiliar, this is rich media advertising that is served with news, weather and sports, at places such as coffee shops and gas pumps. Most…
Hyperlocal community site FatDoor has shut down and reopened as Center'd, an event planning and neighborhood search site with the tag line "people, places, plans." This follows last week's fall of Grayboxx, rise of Angie's List, and birth of OurTown.…
I recently had the chance to talk with Antoine Toffa, founder and CEO of online video platform VideoBloom. Toffa had previously founded Trip.com which was bought by Galileo in 2000 for $326 million and eventually rolled up into what is…
Following up on this morning's post, BuzzSpot has launched today as the first company that will take advantage of Google's new TV Ads product. The company is being launched by Steve Espinosa, eLocalListing director of product development. As an SEM/SEO…
Google has been quietly testing TV ads over the past few months through its AdWords SEM platform. Basically this involves the ability for advertisers to upload an existing video ad and specify target audiences and ad budget, which is then…
Here is a recap of posts from the last week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. New Tools, New World Earlier this week, my colleague Charles Laughlin wrote a blog about the beginning…
Local community and recommendation site Angie's List received $35 million in funding today from Battery Ventures. This comes a day after local rating site Grayboxx sold its assets after failing to get enough traction around its more automated local ratings…
Citysearch made a recent announcement that it will partner with Scanbuy to offer a mobile application that lets users get information and promotions about local businesses by scanning bar codes placed outside their locations. Technically, it's not a bar code…
I just discovered (via Andrew Shotland) that local rating site Grayboxx has sold its assets to BayAdvisor. The company had an interesting idea in its algorithmically derived "implicit ratings" for local businesses -- the benefit being review generations in categories…
Michael Arrington scribes his vision for mobile social mashups in a TechCrunch post yesterday. He argues social networking could be the killer app of the mobile device, and one of the biggest beneficiaries of the expected surge in application development…
Today I had the chance to talk with Dave Brewer, bus dev director of online video production company PixelFish. The company specializes in local and national brand video advertising, but we spent most of the time talking about local. PixelFish…
Cox Communications' regional local search site Kudzu today became the latest to resell video production capabilities to its SMB advertisers. The company had already offered the ability to show video along with business profiles or listings, but SMBs had to…
On the heels of its $7 million B round last month, 3-D mapping provider Everyscape, announced today that it will expand its coverage to San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. It now covers 15 total cities including its first batch,…
Here is a recap of posts from the last week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Cobalt, Marchex Take Pay-Per-Call to Auto Dealers We thought there must be a reason why VoiceStar, Marchex's…
There has been lots of talk at search marketing conferences about social media marketing (SMM) and social media optimization (SMO). This involves everything from starting a blog to optimizing your content with link bait and other hooks to get exposure…
Yahoo! announced today at CTIA that it will integrate voice search capability into its OneSearch mobile search application. The new "OneSearch 2.0" will be powered by Vlingo, a speech recognition technology company that also received a $20 million B round…
I use My Yahoo! as a personal portal to browse headlines within the long list of RSS feeds I've set up. I find it's easy to personalize and set up news feeds, weather, e-mail, team schedules, movie times, etc. In…
