Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search:
As Google Local Listing Ads rollout it is no surprise to see spam creeping in and potential trademark questions once again coming to the fore. Pierre Kairouz has shared a screen shot with me for the search taxi San Francisco (Read More)
Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search:
In July, Google upgraded AdWords to advertisers to add the full address to their search ads through location extensions. It appears that they are now testing a new ad layout similar to the one developed for Local Listing Ads. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even al (Read More)
Xconomy:
IT, deals, acquisitions Wade Roush wrote: Framingham, MA-based Punchbowl Software, the company behind party planning site MyPunchbowl.com, said today that it has acquired the assets of I’m In, a group vacation website fo (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
The courtship of social networking and local search will result in a marriage that diversifies the mix of sales tools and empowers circles of families, friends, co-workers and organizations to share experiences and opinions i (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside ea (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Augmented reality. It's definitely a buzz word, but what is it? How do you experience it? Is there an app for it? Oh, most definitely. Here are 10. True to their name, augmented reality apps add something to what you see, usi (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the hype that positions it as some amazing new essence that businesses and consumers must embrace… sorry (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Let's face it, the music industry is broken. Labels charge stations and providers exorbitant fees, independent sites have little chance of recouping their costs and in the end, the listening experience is fragmented and confu (Read More)
MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing:
"Yellow Pages on TV," a new initiative from Comcast,has married two emerging ad trends: local search and interactive TV advertising. The offering will enable viewers of a Comcast cable station to... (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Why should you care about Online Yellow Pages when Google is most likely your primary source of traffic and ROI? The simple answer is because local search is on the rise, and with it so are opportunities for other advertisers (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Back in the day, it was assumed that heavy Internet geeks were a bunch of basement-dwelling, trenchcoat-wearing, socially maladjusted introverts.However, a new study from the Pew Internet Project shows that geeks, including I (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last month, we told you about Google's Flu Trends' expansion to 20 countries around the world. The program monitors mentions of flu symptoms to predict - and hopefulyl help prevent - flu outbreaks.Today, Google has announced (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At yesterday's Blackberry Developer Conference, several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) came new geoloca (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Here is this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using (Read More)
Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search:
I love the intersection of Map and life and sometimes the things that I read provide a new angle that just wasn’t obvious before.This recent post in the Google Maps forums raises all sorts of questions. It falls into the cate (Read More)
SEO Book:
The Free Credit Report ads have caused such user confusion in the marketplace that the government has felt the need to create a spoof site with $100,000 worth of amateur video to mock Free Credit Report.com. And yet even if y (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft just announced a radical redesign of its MSN homepage. Today's MSN homepage for the US market is a busy mix of ads, hundreds of links and some customizable local news and weather widgets. The redesign, which is MSN' (Read More)