Mobile payments have been a sticky area of development with lots of hurdles and moving parts. But once developed and adopted in earnest, the field has the potential to unlock all kinds of mobile commerce capabilities both online (e-commerce) and…
The deal-a-day marketplace is shaping up as a couple of leading brands in each market, some local media using white-label solutions and a healthy dose of aggregators repeating most or all the deals. Seeing to cut across much of the…
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. -- Evolving the Check-in: Deeper Integration With the…
We keep saying that media darlings like Foursquare and Gowalla will have to evolve beyond the game mechanics and check-ins that have driven their usage. Simply put, these drivers will lose novelty. Among other things, they'll need to develop an…
Mozilla Labs is out with a "concept phone." Like its cousin, the concept car, the phone doesn't exists but it's a futuristic glimpse of what we could see soon. This comes on the heels of lots of sector overlapping within the…
Android App SwiftKey publicly launched today to compete with Swype and other assisted typing tools by essentially creating predictive text on crack. It has done this by creating a machine learning engine that goes much further than the (highly annoying…
As reported over the past 24 hours, mobile local ad network WHERE has announced reaching 1 billion impressions. In the same press release, it announced that 11 percent of clicks on its network result in calls or directions to local…
Mobile navigation provider TeleNav today announced a new trackable mobile ad metric that will better monetize its navigation products, and those it powers for mobile partners. We recently got a briefing of the new “drive-to rate,” which joins an evolving list…
If you're here in Dallas for the DMS conference and you're an iPhone user, download our new app to check out all the event and hotel info. It's a useful app, which Appticity's Mark McCormack built for us. While you're…
Last week Apple threw a long overdue bone to the mobile app developer community. It released a series of informative (if snarky) guidelines on the factors for approval in the App Store. For anyone in the local media space (many of you,…
Fresh off the launch of Facebook Places, I had the chance last week to talk to Gowalla Director of Business Development Andy Ellwood. We both spoke at July's Geo-Loco conference and have since been reeling from the activity and excitement…
A few weeks ago, we covered the launch of DudaMobile and its low maintenance mobile Web site building tool. Yesterday Duda made more news by partnering with transactional tool provider Agendize. The partnership brings Agendize's signature appointment scheduling to Duda's mobile Web…
In addition to announcing 1 billion users per week, You may have heard about Google's new "Instant" search feature launched today at its Search event in San Francisco. The new search paradigm will serve results in real time as users…
Following up on our coverage and initial reactions to Facebook's Places launch, my monthly column on Search Engine Watch digs a bit deeper. Below is the teaser and link. As non-cave dwellers have likely heard, Facebook has launched its own location…
Techcrunch reports today that a check-in based deal for Virgin America, run by Loopt, resulted in Virgin's fifth-highest revenue day ever. Two-for-one tickets from California cities to Cancun or Los Cabos were offered during a four-hour period to anyone who…
A new partnership with Foursquare will give Vlingo (voice search app) the ability to check in to local places by voice. In addition to standard Vlingo features like texting, e-mailing and Web search, users can now prompt check-ins by simply…
You probably heard today that Google launched a voice dialing feature within Gmail. This isn't necessarily Google Voice (which is basically a call connection service), but rather a voice over IP client, akin to Skype, right within Gmail. The thing…
Followers of this blog (and of the mobile space) are well aware of the ongoing apps vs. mobile Web debate. In one corner sits Apple and an app-centric mobile universe. In the other is Google -- motivated by its core…
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. -- Chitika: Mobile Local Queries See Higher CTRs…
Every once in a while we see affirmations of the general premise that mobile and local ads perform better than non-targeted equivalents (at the risk of sounding obvious). Mobile ad network Chitika has been measuring ad performance and releasing its…
