Google announced today that it will add an option to AdWords that will let advertisers specifically run search ads on iPhones and G1s. According to the Google Mobile Blog: Today, the Google mobile ads team is announcing a new campaign-level…
The embrace of social media by the real estate and apartment communities has been strong, with many sites displaying videos of units and the community (or linking to YouTube), writing blogs, and participating on social sites such as Facebook and MySpace.…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. IPhone Voice Search: Vlingo Joins Mix I wasn't able to report this yesterday, but Vlingo has…
I wasn't able to report this yesterday, but Vlingo has joined Google in the small batch of iPhone voice search apps. It has gotten good reviews so far from Wired and CNET. Ours is to come soon (to see how…
Yellowbook.com has undergone lots of changes over the past year, including the integration of video, reviews, redesigns, ad campaigns, a partnership with YouTube and an overall rebranding. Much of that can be attributed to the site's newly appointed new media…
After I posted about San Francisco "Yelp Day" earlier in the week, I was alerted to the fact that it actually never happened: It was canceled at the last minute by Mayor Gavin Newsom. An interesting turn of events. SFGate…
We keep going back to Clayton Christensen and his disruptive technology timeline ... and we really don’t see that anything in the local space truly qualifies as the disruptor (although Google is worth pondering). Still, they keep coming. The latest…
Following the BIA webinar last month on the technological and competitive dynamics of mobile TV, we're already seeing television reach the iPhone. U.K.-based streaming television provider Livestation will preview an iPhone app tomorrow that will show live television on the…
Reply.com is gaining some attention on the local search scene with a proposition to pare down local search traffic to more qualified users. The site buys search traffic, which it then passes through a landing page that resembles a lead…
Today is Yelp Day in San Francisco, by order of Mayor Gavin Newsom. If memory serves me correctly, this is the second annual Yelp Day. It's a nice PR boost for Yelp. For the city, it's probably a way to…
Facebook will give up preliminary efforts to build its own classified service and will have classifieds powered by Oodle’s network instead. The effort, announced in Oodle's blog, will launch by Q1 2009. With the signing, Facebook joins MySpace, Wal-Mart, Media…
Following yesterday's post on the 10,000-app milestone for Apple's App Store, the company today came out with its own list of the most downloaded apps of the year. It divided these into categories like top free apps, top paid apps,…
Joining the surge of smartphones with quickly evolving standards is the Nokia N97. It was unveiled today at Nokia World 2008 in Barcelona, as the conference's centerpiece. The top line is that it has 32 Gigs of memory, DVD quality…
We've written a bit in the past about how location awareness in mobile devices like the iPhone is beginning to inspire online product development. This has been behind Mozilla's Geode platform, which lets developers create location-based services based on the…
148apps.com reports that there have been more than 10,000 iPhone apps released to date. The site tracks application releases and also has some interesting breakdowns of where applications fall into different categories and price points. About a quarter of total…
Last week was cut short by the Thanksgiving holiday, but we still saw a few notable news items. Here is a roundup, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Yellow Pages News Roundup…
Here is a collection of newsworthy Yellow Pages and directional media items that I've noted over the past week or so. Got this press release in my inbox from Yell Group this morning, showing some creativity in linking the print…
IBegin has been trying to add its own Web 2.0 sensibility to the listings business, offering free basic directories of businesses, and customization services on an upgrade basis. It now has 150 businesses and organizations subscribing, including schools, local and…
TKG offices are closed tomorrow for the Thanksgiving holiday and blog posting will be light over the next few days. For our U.S. readers or expats celebrating Thanksgiving, have a fun and restful holiday.
Mashable is holding its second annual Open Web Awards and voting is open until Dec. 15. You can vote for one company in each of the 26 categories, such as social networking, photo sharing, search & social search, etc. (full…
