Canada's Yellow Pages Group announced today that it will launch enhanced business profiles on Yellowpages.ca this spring, offering video ads and photo galleries. This joins U.S. IYPs Yellowpages.com, Yellowbook, Superpages and a growing set of local search sites that will…
Local search and automated rating site Grayboxx announced a series of upgrades today, meant to enhance and expand the site as well as infuse some personal flavor (read: trust) to its core rating features. As we've written the company's "implicit…
All right, this isn't directly tied to local search, but it's really cool. This morning, at the Macworld expo, Steve Jobs introduced the newest addition to the Apple family, the MacBook Air. It's small enough to fit into an interoffice…
The first devices that run Google's much-anticipated Android mobile operating system made a few appearances last week at CES. Here is the 'GW4' from Chinese mobile company Winstron: As we've mentioned a few times, Android along with the iPhone will…
In case you missed any posts this week, here are a few highlights. Click below to read each post in full. Competing for Attention in the Social Networking World Peter Krasilovsky's post this morning got me thinking about MySpace's future.…
This morning, I ran across this video on Yahoo! video, submitted by the Bakersfield Californian, which shows thousands of AT&T Yellow Pages books set up like dominoes then tipped off for an underwhelmed audience. I'm not sure exactly what the…
Peter Krasilovsky's post this morning got me thinking about MySpace's future. It makes a lot of sense that the company would come out with an ad product to rival Facebook's Pages and Ads programs. It has already made a few…
Following up on the previous post, Zillow also announced today that it has gotten together with Yahoo! Real Estate, Trulia and a handful of others to establish a standard format for home listings. This is hoped to lower the barrier…
Zillow made a few announcements today including the fact that it has reached the start-up rite of passage (or sometimes-PR stunt) of coming out of beta. But more important than this symbolic move are the reasons behind it. The company…
Urban Mapping, a very interesting company working on making mapping data more accurate, has released its API. This will essentially allow any local search site to better index local listings and improve its search functionality. As we've mentioned in the…
Following closely behind its integration of Citysearch content (including reviews) last month, Local.com announced today that it will integrate 2 million reviews from Yelp. This was made possible by Yelp's recent release of its API for local search sites…
SEM reseller and campaign management firm ReachLocal today officially brought Google AdWords into its ad product toolbelt. This extends its offering to SMBs interested in search engine marketing or in cross-platform ad bundles. ReachLocal's online offerings to SMBs also include…
In case you missed any posts over the past week, here is a recap. Click below to read each post in full. BT to Pursue Ad-Supported DA Model According to the Independent newspaper, British Telecom, apparently swayed by the rapid…
There has been lots of talk about local merchant video ads this year, a trend pushed forward in the most meaningful way by Citysearch's May integration of video ads. We've also seen every major U.S. IYP do the same this…
Posting (along with the activity level in the local search world) has been understandably light over the past few days. But a lot happened before that; here is a recap in case you missed anything. Click below to read each…
As promised, today I had the chance to talk with Local.com's VP of bus dev and sales, Peter Hutto, who took time away from his vacation to provide some more color on yesterday's partnership with Citysearch. Hutto confirmed that the…
From the Stupid Fun on a Pre-holiday Friday department, here is a year-end-recap spoof from the folks at online video production studio JibJab. It takes some questionable jabs (SoCal fires), but also has lots of funny highlights from 2007 in…
In news that was supposed to be announced today but broke late last night, discount travel site Kayak has raised $196 million and acquired competitor SideStep. Techcrunch reports that deal is worth $200 million. The funding came from existing investors…
Local.com announced today that it will pull in and display content from Citysearch in its local listings. This will enhance Local.com's own content and bring in more ad revenues from Citysearch advertisers. Citysearch will meanwhile get more distribution for its…
WebVideoReport has started to put some numbers on the growing online video space. It joins GigaOm's NewTeeVee in exclusively covering this space, and has put out some interesting articles in the past few weeks. Choosing a Video Services Provider Web…
