Personalized news platforms that can guess what users want to see are being developed by several competing teams. One expectation is that newspapers and other local media will want to use them to power next generation services. Last week, we…
Local Web sites don’t necessarily follow jurisdictional borders, traditional newspaper circulation areas or broadcast DMAs. Hyperlocal sites, similarly, are finding they can effortlessly extend their market reach and leverage their technology platforms. The San Diego News Network, which has been…
Catching up on some notable recent announcements/developments in the global Yellow Pages industry: Today, R.H. Donnelley announced a partnership with Tribune Media Services to provide movie-related content on DexKnows.com. From the press release: DexKnows.com is using TMS movie data to…
Canpages, the independent directory publisher that continues to solidify its role as Yellow Pages Group's primary direct competitor in Canada, has acquired GigPark, a Toronto start-up that collects personal recommendations for local service providers, a la Angie's List, except that…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Twitter: Now With More Local, Part II As promised, here are some more thoughts on Twitter’s new geolocation capability.…
As promised, here are some more thoughts on Twitter’s new geolocation capability. There are lots of cool local implications. First, some background: Twitter’s use as a local search tool has come in a few different flavors. With the inception of…
Out of home is rapidly evolving, and so are the players in it. This week, Danoo and IdeaCast, which recently merged, announced they are rebranding the combined entities as Reach Media Group. RMG will initially focus on three segments: the…
The glory of Craigslist is “its size and its price,” notes writer Gary Wolf in a provocative dissection of the site in the September edition of Wired. But “Craigslist is one of the strangest monopolies in history, where customers are…
Fisher Communications, Seattle-based owner of TV and radio stations in the Pacific Northwest, announced this week its launch of 43 hyperlocal neighborhood Web sites in its home market. Fisher's goal is to create a network of neighborhood sites in Seattle.…
Techcrunch reports that Twitter has integrated geolocation into its API -- first for third-party developers then on its own site. This has lots of implications for any businesses that have begun to utilize Twitter to inform people about events and…
EBay’s one-month trial program selling new GM vehicles has resulted in 2,400 offers, according to GM (as reported by The Los Angeles Times). EBay’s trial, which could be extended nationwide, has been set up for 225 of GM’s 250 dealerships…
Yesterday, I had the chance to talk to Shooger president and cofounder Alex Stancioff. Stancioff has some mileage in the local search space, having cofounded local SEM firm ClickForward, which was acquired by Yellowbook in 2006. This is the reason…
This is a question we're often asked. One answer is to look at Millennial Media's most recent figures. In the midst of its monthly mobile marketing "Scorecards," it recently reported the top 10 mobile ad categories, extrapolated from activity on…
Hyperlocal, everyone’s favorite unproven concept, has been back in the news this week. It started a couple of weeks ago. BackFence Founder Mark Potts announced that he has formed a high-profile team and built ad technology to drive network and…
Web.com and MerchantCircle are teaming up to leverage Web.com’s appeal as a provider of “premium” SMB services, and MerchantCircle’s appeal as an introductory-level provider of SMB services that is more oriented toward building traffic and selling advertising. Web.com is a…
Brian Jurutka, VP, comScore, chatted with us over lunch yesterday and mentioned a new project comScore is working on. With massive amounts of online user data from its million-strong U.S. panel (another 1 million panel members are outside the U.S.),…
NearbyNow's newly launched magazine apps are proving to be popular among iPhone users right out of the gate. The Seventeen Magazine "fashion finder" app is currently No. 6 in the Lifestyle apps section, while the Runner's World app is among…
The overlap (and confusion) between “local” and “personalization” has always been a big one. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Online media pioneer Neil Budde is the founding publisher of WSJ.com and former head at Yahoo News. Budde has…
I just received a note from Center'd that the company has extended its online local search and discovery engine to the iPhone. The app, available starting today, carries the new categories of local discovery that were unique to the online…
Right after hearing about some of Yelp's new milestones last week, I received a note from Qype head of marketing Andrew Hunter about its recent growth. Specifically, the site has reached 14 million monthly unique visitors and has added Italy…
