The program for ILM East, March 21-23 in Boston, is now mostly set, with a lot of action-packed sessions and speakers that represent the state of the art -- and also the fast, fast, fast evolution of local from even…
Last week I attended Opus Research's Conversational Commerce Conference (a.k.a. "C3). The focus of the discussion was mostly on social media and its impact on marketing and customer care, at both the local and national brand levels. While there is…
AOL will buy The Huffington Post for $300 million in cash and $15 million in stock, and put Arianna Huffington in charge of the AOL Local sites (MapQuest, Patch, MovieFone) as well as its growing collection of opinionated tech and…
Foursquare is trialling a new nationally featured place to check in to: Super Bowl XLV. "Super Bowl Sunday" will be available in the trending now section on Foursquare's mobile apps. If you check in and shout which team you're rooting…
From the Friday humor department, here's some good circa-1994 morning show banter about the Interweb. Though mainstream tech awareness has come a long way since then, the dialogue actually isn't that far off from my mom asking me more recently what…
After many months of only running into the folks at Urban Mapping at conferences, I recently visited their new S.F. offices to get a proper update. There's lots happening there. Some of you may know the company as providing the…
The City of Seattle has modified its tough Yellow Pages opt-out ordinance, but apparently not sufficiently to make a federal lawsuit challenging the ordinance go away. The city has eliminated a $148 per ton fee for Yellow Pages deliveries in…
"Write once, read everywhere” concepts are popular ones with so many platforms to serve. Agendize is probably the king of these for listings and appointments, serving more than 66 unique platforms. Localeze and Universal Business Listings are other key players…
What do you do to keep your customer after your deal of the day runs? That’s a big question for tens of thousands of SMBs -- many of which have used deal a day as a loss leader and have…
Google announced yesterday that its Latitude mobile social product will integrate place check-ins. Active first on Android (iPhone TBD), it includes the following features: -- Notifications: Turn on check-in notifications in Latitude’s settings and get a notification to check in…
The city of San Francisco appears to be next in line to pursue draconian restrictions on the distribution of print Yellow Pages directories. As reported in SF Gate, David Chiu, president of the city's board of supervisors, is pushing legislation…
I recently had the chance to follow up with Locomatix, a company I was first introduced to at our ILM:10 show. Utilizing technology developed at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), it joins the emerging sector of platforms and toolsets to build location-based…
Gannett announced during its earnings call yesterday that it is now producing 264 hyperlocal neighborhood sites in 10 markets. This includes the recent addition of 30 hyperlocal neighborhoods in Sacramento. The hyperlocal neighborhoods, produced in conjunction with DataSphere, have put…
In December, we discussed the implications of Groupon's pact with public Wi-Fi network provider JiWire as a potentially significant next step for social commerce -- hyperlocal group buying that leverages geotargeting to serve nearby deals to connected customers. The partnership has…
While I have spent much of the past few years practicing the art of local SEO for enterprises, when I saw "The Social Network" had garnered eight Oscar nominations, I started to think there might be something to this whole social…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our mobile coverage. We'll slowly be phasing out our Mobile Local Media blog so that we can consolidate content here on…
Angie's List, Kudzu and The Washington Post's new ServiceAlley are providing group buying promotions for home and trade services. But is group buying the right paradigm for home and trade services? Regional Help Wanted Cofounder Eric Straus says no. Instead,…
Today I am excited to announce that BIA/Kelsey has greatly enhanced its focus on social media to include dedicated coverage on our Local Media Watch blog and a new Continuous Advisory Service called Social Local Media. BIA/Kelsey Analyst Jed Williams…
Local Insight Media President and CEO Scott Pomeroy has resigned, effective Friday. Pomeroy was replaced as interim CEO by Scott Brubaker, a director at the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal, and since October 2010, LIM's chief restructuring officer. This move…
Yesterday I had the chance to talk to Foursquare GM Evan Cohen. A former Jupiter analyst and Bebo exec, Cohen was brought aboard last year to help steer the ship amid rapid growth. The wide reaching discussion hit upon the…
