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Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC
Art3x writes "The rise of the Internet has led to a 'shortage of local, professional, accountability reporting' (Here's the AP's version) says a a 475-page report by the FCC, and the consequences could be 'more government waste, more local corruption,' 'less effective schools' and other problems. Even though there are more media choices today than ever, newspapers have been laying off reporters, leaving a gap that is yet to be filled."
The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Product Extension Ads and Product Local Ads Now Available on Mobile Devices
Google's recent Smartphone User Study found that 79% of smartphone consumers use their phones to help with shopping activities. To help advertisers meet these key mobile shopper needs, Google today introduced two desktop ad formats to the mobile platform: Product Extension Ads and Product Local Ads.
Product Extension Ads and Product Local Ads Now Available on Mobile Devices
Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DTWB/~3/dgWGz4KJ0Nc/
Monday, February 28, 2011
Groupon Launches China Affiliate With Huge Local Investors
Groupon has launched GaoPeng.com, a China affiliate, the company has announced. The company is funded by Groupon, Tencent Collaboration and a fund co-owned by Alibaba founder Jack Ma.
This is potentially absolutely huge. Groupon's international expansion has been the most aggressive of any tech company we can think of, and they've been grasping for a China strategy for a while, from buying up local competitors, which didn't really work, to opening their fully-owned local site, which never works.
And of course, meanwhile, Groupon clones have been exploding all over China -- imagine the heat of Groupon clones plus the heat of China. Groupon have got the best partners in this deal: Tencent is China's largest social network (and one of the world's most valuable companies) and Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba, the e-commerce leader in China.
Foreign companies never succeed in China without a local partner, and the world's biggest social commerce company found as partners the biggest social network and biggest commerce entrepreneur. Maybe Groupon will crack the code of winning in China.
Don't Miss: 10 Asian Tech Companies That Are Putting American Ones To Shame →
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Groupon Launches China Affiliate With Huge Local Investors
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Bing Adds Feature That Lets You Walk Through Local Businesses (MSFT, GOOG)
Users who conduct searches for local businesses on Bing will soon be able to "walk through" the interior physical locations on the Bing Maps site before visiting them in person.
The feature is provided through a partnership with Everyscape, which has signed up several hundred businesses in more than 30 cities. The company also offers Everyscape Eats, which has interiors of more than 500 restaurants. Those will show up in Bing Local results as well.
The walkthroughs only show up in local search results when users look for a participating business. They're not yet integrated with Bing's Street Side--its equivalent to Google Street View, which shows street scenes as you navigate through a map on Bing Maps.
The Everyscape walkthroughs are one of several minor improvements Microsoft rolled out this morning at a Search Summit event in San Francisco. No single feature will probably be enough to get users to switch from Google, but the steady trickle of updates could eventually help move the needle a bit.
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See Also:
- Yahoo Deal Gives Bing About One-Third Of U.S. Search Market
- Toolbar Maker Dumps Google For Bing
- Suddenly, Bing Has What Google Doesn't: Data From 500 Million Facebook Users
Bing Adds Feature That Lets You Walk Through Local Businesses (MSFT, GOOG)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Comment on Topix Gets Local With Twitter and Social With Facebook by See
Registration and the policing of its forums would be a nice new feature.
Comment on Topix Gets Local With Twitter and Social With Facebook by See
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/03/topix-gets-local-with-twitter-and-social-with-facebook/#comment-530069
Comment on LivingSocial and the Future of Local Group-Buying by Parthiv
Totally agree with felow commentators about Groupon and LivingSocial's success and how they have revolutionized local business advertising.
While the business objective with group buying and daily deal sites is primarily "lead generation" for local businesses as what they offer are loss leaders and they cannot run those offers regularly, there are services now emerging to help businesses with real-time offer and inventory management. One of such services is Matchpin (www.matchpin.com) that enables local businesses to run offers on their terms, when they want and what they want. Matchpin through its location-based mobile app (www.tinyurl.com/matchpin) distribute offers to consumers in real time that users can go redeem directly at the store - no prepayment, no preplanning.
Comment on LivingSocial and the Future of Local Group-Buying by Parthiv
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/livingsocial-and-the-future-of-local-group-buying/#comment-528917
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Comment on LivingSocial and the Future of Local Group-Buying by Alex
8coupons does essentially what Mr Rainey is explaining
http://www.8coupons.com
Comment on LivingSocial and the Future of Local Group-Buying by Alex
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/27/livingsocial-and-the-future-of-local-group-buying/#comment-528774
Sunday, November 21, 2010
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
Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/19/Friday-Geonews-ESRIs-Open-Source-Geoportal-Server-Yahoo-Local-Offers-REST-Explained-Again
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.
Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/19/Friday-Geonews-ESRIs-Open-Source-Geoportal-Server-Yahoo-Local-Offers-REST-Explained-Again
Friday, November 19, 2010
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 [...]
Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8097
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Google Revamps Product Search With Local Availability, Popular Products, And “Aisles”
As we enter the holiday shopping season, Google is ramping up its product search efforts. As we know from research data, more than 46 percent of in-store purchases are influenced by online research. The online-research for offline purchases market is huge ($917 billion to be exact), and Google wants to be the go-to destination for holiday shopper this year.
Google is expanding its Blue Dot Specials feature (which launched earlier this year on mobile search) by offering more data on whether a product is available in a nearby brick and mortar store. Google has partnered with over 70 retail brands, including Best Buy and Williams-Sonoma, as well as software manufacturers like JDA, Epicor and Oracle, to show shoppers whether a product is available in a nearby store or location. This data will be available in search under the "nearby stores link."
Post originale: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/fr9tFL2Pqkk/
Friday, November 12, 2010
Local Reviews on Google Maps (Google Maps Mania)
Shownto.meThis Google Map based local search engine displays information from third party services such as Yelp, Gowalla, Yellowpages, Mapquest and Foursquare. Using the map it is possible to search for local businesses, for example, pizza in San Francisco. When you undertake a search you can choose what type of business you wish to find and which third party service you wish to see...
Source : Google Maps Mania
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Post originale: http://wik.io/info/US/227704669
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Jim Brady, Boss Of Hot Local News Site TBD, Out After Silly Fight About "Content OR Aggregation"
The general manager of hot local-news site TBD, Jim Brady, is out after what sounds like a disagreement with TBD publisher (and owner) Robert Albritton.
The cause of the departure appears to have been an argument about whether TBD should grow by adding more "content" (original reporting) or "aggregation" (links to third-party content).
(Brady disputes this, but Albritton's memo makes it sound like it was an issue.)
In a reversal of the usual positions in this argument, publisher and money-man Albritton appears to want more original content, and Brady, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, wants (or wanted) content AND aggregation.
In case anyone's wondering who's "right" about what TBD should do, the answer is...Brady.
The online medium has made the distinction between "content" and "aggregation" irrelevant. Or, more specifically, it has turned aggregation into a form of content--and a very valuable one at that. The most successful online media companies, such as Huffington Post and Gawker Media, incorporate both original content AND aggregation. And that's why they are drubbing both the pure aggregators and the pure "content" companies.
And before you fall for the whining about how "aggregation" is a sort of parasitical behavior that steals the work of others, note that "aggregation as a form of content" is nothing new: TV and radio news outlets have been "aggregating content" for decades--by broadcasting news gathered by newspapers. And newspapers themselves have been reporting the work of other newspapers for centuries.
So this whole argument about "content vs aggregation" is silly, especially in a world in which millions of sources are only a click away.
If Albritton wants TBD to win a couple of Pulitzer prizes, fine, he should hire a few more Washington Post reporters. But if he wants the site to become a huge, influential commercial success that helps support a network of hundreds of local bloggers, he should ALSO keep investing in aggregation and technology.
Fishbowl has Albritton's memo >
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See Also:
- Here's Why New Local Startup TBD.com Is So Important
- Washington Post Is Condescending And "Passive Aggressive" About Its Newest Competitor: D.C. Startup TBD.com
- "Recent digital media launches -- Capital New York, D.C.-focused TBD.com and Yahoo’s Upshot -- have the potent...
Post originale: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/oVO9H_a69Q4/jim-brady-tbd-2010-11
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