Yahoo! announced a series of features for Yahoo! Maps today, the most notable of which is "drag & drop" functionality for routes. The feature, which Google already launched in a similar form, lets users drag a route to any number…
In case you missed any posts this week, here is a recap of coverage from the TKG blog. Click below to read each post in full. Day: Consolidation Best for Dutch Market My colleague Michael Taylor and I spent part…
Back in April we wrote about BuzzLogic, a San Francisco-based company whose web based app finds out where particular topics are being discussed throughout the blogosphere and online news media. This takes form in a dashboard that includes an overhead-map-like…
I just got off the phone with Pasadena, California-based Interpolls. The company has a number of rich media ad products and national brand ad clients, including HP, Scion and T-Mobile (full list here). The company's newest ad format is a…
Eurekster is an interesting company in the general category of social search and discovery engines that provides a search widget (Swicki) for publishers to plant on their sites. Swickis essentially refine search results over time based on the search behavior…
Here is a recap of blog posts from the past week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Stubbs Executive Interview: Video, UGC and Call Tracking Yellowpages.com President Charles Stubbs stressed the IYP opportunity…
Yellowpages.com President Charles Stubbs stressed the IYP opportunity with online video, call tracking, social media and IPTV during an SES Chicago appearance this week. Yellowpages.com is within striking distance to each of these, given the assets and initiatives of parent…
Aside from our own play-by-play of last week's eventful ILM:07 show, here is a roundup of others' coverage: Marchex LocalPoint GigaOm Andrew Shotland's LocalSEOGuide (more posts here and here) Forbes NAA Digital Edge Blog Sebastien Provencher's Praized (more posts here…
Two pioneers in the local social space discussed their leading-edge approaches in a panel at ILM:07 today. First up was Mike Orren, president of Pegasus News. Like so many companies in the local online space, Pegasus has not followed a…
John Hanke, Google's head of Maps and Earth, keynoted this morning at ILM:07 and spoke in-depth about these products' recent announcements. These include MyLocation, terrain maps, user address corrections and enhancements to MyMaps. Just a normal week for Google though,…
John Hanke, Google's head of Maps and Earth, keynoted this morning at ILM:07 and spoke in-depth about these products' recent announcements. These include MyLocation, terrain maps, user address corrections and enhancements to MyMaps. Just a normal week for Google though,…
Google has launched MyLocation, a nice tool for mobile maps that triangulates your location based on your distance to cell towers. A blue dot and a circle are placed on Google mobile maps that show you where you are and…
There have been a handful of announcements in and around ILM:07 so far. Here is a jumping-off point: Online Consumer Generated Reviews Have Significant Impact on Offline Purchase Behavior Yellowpages.com Advertisers Come to Live in Online Video Profiles Citysearch Announces…
Stuart McKelvey, president and CEO of TMP Directional Marketing, took some time today at ILM:07 to dissect some of the data that came out of the consumer survey, released in August and co-produced by comScore. TMP executes the largest placement…
In an opening session to TKG's part in the ILM/SES Local Show, Neal Polachek, Matt Booth and Peter Krasilovsky presented some groundwork data for the rest of the conference and the rest of the decade. Verticalization is a trend we're…
The Wall Street Journal this week gave a nod to some of the developments in online video for SMBs. The Journal cites TKG data about online video as a direct response medium that more SMB advertisers are starting to recognize…
In case you missed any posts during the short week last week, here is a recap. Click below to read each post in full. Bebo Provides Mainstream Content -- Attracts Big Brands Last week Bebo, the global social network, announced…
ILM:07 kicks off next week and we're all excited and busy with the run-up activities to the show. If you are attending, comment below if you'd like to meet up. Otherwise do your best to tackle us at the show,…
Urban Mapping yesterday announced a partnership with mapping technology provider Placebase. Placebase basically has an API built on mapping tiles (the standard unit of Web 2.0 mapping) that lets developers do a lot with pushpins. This comes in handy in…
Google announced that it will now allow users to change address information in Google Maps. This will let any registered user click and drag map arrows to a different place on the map if they are incorrect. This is analogous…
