Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff kicked off Day 2 of ILM:10, dissecting the biggest opportunities to monetize online real estate. Rascoff founded Hotwire before selling to IAC and jumping over to the real estate vertical in 2005. Zillow is now profitable and…
In the second half of the mobile local SuperForm run by BIA/Kelsey's own Mike Boland, the ILM:10 audience got to hear some key messages and metrics from leaders in the mobile local space including Where, xAD, Verve Wireless and Chitika.…
This afternoon's Mobile SuperForum kicked off with a review of our Mobile Local Forecast from BIA/Kelsey mobile guru Mike Boland, followed by insights from a collection of mobile industry leaders weighing in on everything from how extensively mobile is being…
In what can only be described as preconference insanity, I've neglected my duty to blog daily items from the wide world of mobile media. Below are a few missed -- though notable -- items, some of which I'll circle back to…
Mobile local search company WHERE has released a new iPhone app. After changing its name and reinventing itself as a mobile local ad network, this move returns attention to its own branded app. And fitting to the company's name, the…
Today, RingRevenue announced it has raised a $4 millon Series B round led by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners. This brings the company's total funding to $7.6 million since its 2007 founding. The vote of confidence was based on the…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our Mobile Local Media blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. -- Thoughts on JiWire’s Acquisition…
If you haven't heard, Wi-Fi-focused mobile ad network JiWire has acquired mobile local start-up NearbyNow for an undisclosed sum. To do a bit more justice to the latter, it works with brands, retailers and print publications to make local product…
Today Yelp announced its latest move down the LBS path, with a new set of tools for merchants to create and manage local check-in deals. The product, on which we were briefed yesterday, follows last January's launch of check-ins for…
In parallel with our constant harping on the need for more substance in check-in services, there has been a general movement to "move beyond the check-in." We discussed it recently with Gowalla's Andy Ellwood, and it's becoming a common talking…
Perhaps in anticipation of next week's slow news cycle (at least in the U.S.), this week has seen a particularly frenetic pace of mobile industry news. Lots of our coverage is in the previous posts and pages. Beyond that, here…
Fresh off its partnership with Target, and just in time for the holiday shopping season, Shopkick has announced it's available in the Android Marketplace. The free app will contain all of the features of its iPhone forebear. This obviously now expand…
A panel at today's Web 2.0 Summit tackled the hot topic of location-based services. Composed fully of speakers and companies we'll have at ILM:10, the panel discussed how location will be a component of most online and mobile products ...…
A new consortium of mobile carriers has announced it will launch a mobile payments platform known as ISIS. With the tagline "Wallet ... meet Phone," it plans to launch in the next 18 months (really?). The press release and Web…
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a briefing with Shopkick's product director Evan Tana. The upcoming ILM:10 conference speaker explained the strategy to build a shopping utility around check-ins and customer engagement for retail partners like Best Buy. Another thing…
Today, Mary Meeker gave her annual data dump of key Internet trends at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As always it was fairly rich, including lots of mobile usage data as leading indicators for opportunities in content and ad delivery. One…
Over on our Local Media blog, we cover Google's new "Hotpot" product. It essentially adds a social layer to local search, allowing users to connect to friends (Gmail contacts). Merchant ratings from you and your friends then govern personalized recommendations in…
Many of you have heard by now that Google has launched a social "layer" onto local search with the new Hotpot feature. -- Rate and review local businesses. -- Add friends from Google contacts (based on Gmail contacts). -- Both…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to recent posts on our Mobile Local Media blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. -- Google Product Search Bridges Online-to-Offline Shopping --…
After all of the speculation over the past week about a new Facebook e-mail client, the company today announced a more broadly defined "Modern Messaging System." Explicitly positioned by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as "not an e-mail killer," this will include…
