Google Offers Beta in New York City and the Bay Area Launches

On June 15, Google Offers beta was launhced in Portland, starting todya, Google begin offering the deals in the Big Apple and the Bay Area. Subscribers who sign up here, or via the new "Today's Offer" tab in Google Shopper 2.0 for Android will start receiving emails with local offers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area today, announced Google.

Google Offers Beta in New York City and the Bay Area Launches

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Google Offers Beta Launches in Portland, Oregon Tomorrow: D9 Conference

Today, at D9 Conference, Google's Eric Schmidt and VP of Commerce Stephanie Tilenius announced of launching "Google Offers" beta in Portland, Ore. tomorrow.

Google Offers Beta Launches in Portland, Oregon Tomorrow: D9 Conference

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Google Latitude ‘Check-in’ Gain Status, and Unlock Offers Across the U.S.

In March this year, Google Latitude check-in for 60 places around Austin was launched. Now, Google is teamed up with some partners to let you unlock check-in offers at thousands of places across the U.S. using Latitude for Android and iPhone.

Google Latitude ‘Check-in’ Gain Status, and Unlock Offers Across the U.S.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Check in, gain status, and unlock offers at more places with Google Latitude

Last month, we rolled out Google Latitude check-in offers for 60 places around Austin. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with some great partners to let you unlock check-in offers at thousands of places across the U.S.

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Google Lat Long Blog: Check in, gain status, and unlock offers at more places with Google Latitude

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Comment on Microsoft Now Offers 30-Day Free Trial of Office for Mac by My-iFamily.com

I am NOT a fan of Microsoft, but I have to give them kudos to this version of Office for Mac. It is 1000 times better than the previous version. I'm torn between using iWord and Office now. I'm accustomed to using Office, but I really like Apple's approach to everyday tasks in iWork. I just wish iWork would mature a little faster. The #1 way for Apple fans to BRAG! | www.My-iFamily.com

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Google Offers To Help Your Parents Use Their Computer

Google has a condescending new Web site that lets users create a canned e-mail message for their parents with links to 30 instructional videos on how to perform simple computing tasks like copying and pasting, sharing photos, and changing the clock.

The videos are not bad: they're all under one minute long, and they're not too shameless about plugging Google products--the video on how to create a blog mentions Wordpress alongside Blogger, and the video on browser updates includes a demonstration of Firefox as well as Chrome. Other videos, like changing the wallpaper on the PC, don't have any Google links at all.

Unfortunately, the site asks you to send the links within a email that explains how "shocked" or "impressed" you are that your parents are using their computer. A word to the wise: even if your parents seem like total idiots when it comes to the computer, nobody wants to be treated like an idiot--it's probably better to create a personal email message and embed the links yourself.

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See Also:

• I'm Living The Google Lifestyle
• 10 Things We Love And Hate About Google's Chrome Notebook
• Watch Out, Teens! 10% Of Your Parents Are Hacking In To Your Facebook Accounts

Google Offers To Help Your Parents Use Their Computer

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Monetize Your Site with Affiliate Exclusive Holiday Offers from Select Google Affiliate Network

With Google Affiliate Network, you can access affiliate ads for top retailers. If the ad or text link you post on your blog results in a sale, you earn a commission. This means that you can start working with advertisers who'll pay you a performance fee for driving a sale or other conversion.

Monetize Your Site with Affiliate Exclusive Holiday Offers from Select Google Affiliate Network

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Friday Geonews: ESRI's Open Source Geoportal Server, Yahoo Local Offers, REST Explained Again, MapQuest My Maps, and much more

Here's the weekly batch of geonews, finally on a regular Friday.On the ESRI front:

• Recently, ESRI open sourced the ESRI Geoportal Server. Some twitter users were quick to mention that you still need ArcGIS Server software to use the Geoportal Server. To me, that's still a nice step. Their definition of a geoportal: "A geoportal is a gateway to Web-based geospatial resources, enabling users to discover, view and access geospatial information and services made available by their providing organizations. Likewise, data providers can use the geoportal to make their geospatial resources discoverable, viewable, and accessible to others."
• The popular blog SpatiallyAdjusted shares some elements that could be improved about the ArcGIS 10 user interface

On the open source front:

• O'Reilly discusses a new open source software called WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment), which obviously include a mapping component
• If you're into FDO, you'll be happy to learn of the new SequentialProcess for batch mode processing
• QGIS gets new label tools
• Remember Polymaps? The open source mapping framework Polymaps is now integrated into GeoCommons

In the miscellaneous category:

• REST and RESTful was widely discussed in the past few years in the geospatial community, including within ESRI, the open source and OGC rings. Thanks to this entry named Richardson Maturity Model: steps toward the glory of REST, I think I finally correctly understand what REST is about! ;-) (sorry I don't remember how I ended up on that article)
• TMR informs us MapQuest launched My Maps last June, with the same name of the similar feature provided on Google Maps, basically allowing you to save and share user-created maps
• SS shares a long perspective entry named What forces are at play in the evolution of geospatial industry sectors?
• NAVTEQ acquires the 3D modeling company named PixelActive
• APB informs us Yahoo has launched a new service called Local Offers: "that it said will give users information about local merchants along with coupons and information on deals at stores in their neighborhoods."
• Kurt shares interesting thoughts on GIS, followed by What is GIS? A workflow definition

In the maps category:

• Here's the evolution of active Facebook users by region
• A nice entry on The Human Development Index in Africa and Across the World
• SS shares an entry named Mapping Opportunity in America
• While I was aware of it, we mentioned mentioned it yet. The GEB discusses the USGS "Earth as Art" beautiful collection of Landsat imagery

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Slashgeo: Friday Geonews: ESRI's Open Source Geoportal Server, Yahoo Local Offers, REST Explained Again, MapQuest My Maps, and much more

Here's the weekly batch of geonews, finally on a regular Friday.On the ESRI front:

• Recently, ESRI open sourced the ESRI Geoportal Server. Some twitter users were quick to mention that you still need ArcGIS Server software to use the Geoportal Server. To me, that's still a nice step.

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Medialets Rides iAd Wave, Offers Rich Media Tools

Medialets has found that competing against iAd can be a good thing. The company told me its rich media mobile ads have increased 19 times since April, when Apple announced iAd and shined a light on the format. Now the New York start-up is looking to offer its tools to agencies and in-house creative teams to help keep the rich media ad wave going.

The New Yahoo! Goes Loco With Local offers and a Dozen Partners

Out of the Web2.0 event this week in San Fran, Yahoo! has lifted the lid off their latest plans to harness the power of location and mobile location tech – enter Yahoo! Local offers. Some details… Yahoo! is launching its Local Offers program with more than a dozen partners to provide a wide selection of [...]

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Facebook launches 'Deals' - a version of Foursquare with offers (10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog)

Facebook has just launched 'Deals'. Deals adds a significant feature to another service they recently introduced 'Facebook Places' - Deals gives businesses the opportunity to reward customers when they check in on Facebook. Check-ins have become a popular type of Social Networking. The leading check-in site is Foursquare and another competitor is GoWalla. When you 'check in' at a location...

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Five Great Windows 7 Offers from the Microsoft UK

Looking to buy a new PC running Windows 7, check out the following latest offers from Microsoft UK:

Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt'

DrHeasley writes "Rockmelt, available for the first time Monday, is built on the premise that most online activity today revolves around socializing on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on Twitter and monitoring a handful of favorite websites. It tries to minimize the need to roam from one website to the next by corralling all vital information and favorite services in panes and drop-down windows. 'This is a chance for us to build a browser all over again,' Andreessen said. 'These are all things we would have done (at Netscape) if we had known how people were going to use the Web.'"

Yelp's Check-in Offers Make Much More Sense Than Foursquare's

Local search and business review service Yelp entered the location-based check-in game nearly a year ago, following in the footsteps of other services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Over the summer, the company added badges and mayor-like features and we wrote that the move clearly placed Yelp "in direct competition with the likes of Foursquare."

Now, Yelp is introducing Check-in Offers later this month, a feature that will give users real-life discounts and deals when they check-in to locations and it appears the company is following in Foursquares' footsteps again - but is it?

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A primary driving force for Foursquare users this whole time has been game mechanics - points for check-ins, badges, mayorships to flaunt just how much you go to the local dive bar - and real-life deals were added later as a way to both monetize and keep users checking in. Why continue checking in if all you get is a virtual badge, right?

Yelp, on the other hand, has long been in the game of local business reviews by community members. That's been its primary product all along. Check-ins, for Yelp, were more of a community building feature, something to keep users interested and interacting. As the company writes in yesterday's blog post announcing the feature, "Yelp is a transactional website, and upcoming features like Check-in Offers help to further bridge online discovery and offline buying. In other words no one types "Sushi" near "Los Angeles" for fun."

So, sure, Yelp may be literally following in Foursquare's footsteps with a similar feature, but it means something completely different in this context. Foursquare may offer "tips", but those same tips are the reviews at the very core of Yelp and it's why users go there.

We got a chance to speak with Stephanie Ichinose, the senior director of communications at Yelp, and she told us that mobile accounted for around 30% of Yelp's searches and that the site had just hit 14 million reviews over the weekend.

"It's an obvious and pretty natural extension," said Ichinose. "It absolutely makes sense for us to layer it in as a way business owners can communicate with their users."

And that might be the key difference here - at the heart of Yelp are businesses and those 14 million user-submitted reviews of those businesses. At the heart of Foursquare are locations of many kinds - businesses, hangout spots, random peoples' houses - some with reviews (or "tips") and some without.

Would these sorts of check-in deals bring you over from Foursquare to Yelp? Or is the user experience with Foursquare strong enough to keep you going, with the occasional deal or mayoral discount? Let us know if you think Yelp's implementation makes more sense or if it just works better with Foursquare in the comments below.

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