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Category Archive For "Local Mobile"
Nexus One- The Second Coming Part 2
As I pointed out yesterday, the Nexus One is a great phone. Given its limited distribution and status of an iPhone-near-equal, it is not an iPhone killer. That being said, it certainly demonstrates Google’s path to the near future. Google is, like Apple several years ago, trying to break into an exclusive club…the oligopoly of …
Nexus One: The Second Coming but Not An iPhone Killer – Part 1
I have a had few days to play with the Nexus. Its an incredible phone, not so incredible that it will shake the iPhone from my grasp but incredible enough that it will have a huge impact on the cell phone industry. Compared to the iPhone, my Nexus* has a beautiful screen, incredible speed, much …
Guide to Choosing a Smart Phone for Local
In early January, Miriam Ellis of Solas Web Design asked the Local Chumps (an email salon whose members vary depending on the weather but that day included myself, Miriam, David Mihm, Matt McGee, Andrew Shotland & Will Scott) what smart phone should she buy. In doing her due diligence, she wanted to know which had …
Loci2009: Greg Sterling: An Explosion of Interest in “Local” in 2009
I’ve been watching what we now call the “local online market” or “local search market” for about a decade. And finally in the past year we’ve seen an explosion of interest in “local.” Strangely, the mobile handset arms race and growth of the mobile Internet this year have made the concept of local more accessible …
Loci2009: Gib Olander’s Important Trends and Directions in Local
So not all of these posts were explicitly about local but I think they all discuss leading trends and toward solving problems that local is dealing with or will be dealing with in the near future. Here are eight posts from 2009 that sum up the year and point toward where we are going in …
Loci2009: Seb Provencher’s Inspirational Local Developments in 2009 and Predictions for 2010
Looking back, I believe 2009 was a transition year in the local media space. Mobile finally came of age after many years of broken promises and put “geo” front and center. Social media became a hot topic in the local media circles, something that was almost unthinkable 3 years ago when I started blogging about …
Local Links of Interest
MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That’s Gone Wrong – John McKinley, Silicon Valley Insider John McKinley, a former AOL President of Digital Services, offers a concise and pointed critique of Mapquest’s loss of market dominance and what needs to be done about it. Local Search Behavior by Industry Category – David Mihm, Mihmorandum Do the …
Local in a Ford Near You
As the pricing for GPS and computer chips drop we have seen computers moving into a range of new situations from TV boxes to your iPod. The capability is now moving into automobiles as well and in this context, Local makes lots of sense. Ford is at the forefront of making this technology widely available …
Loci 2008: The year in Local from Michael Jensen’s Point of view
Michael Jensen– @mdjensen on Twitter, is co-founder of SoloSEO.com, an SEO toolset and project management platform. Michael has a strong interest in local and mobile search, and blogs about Local Search and Local SEO. Michael is also behind LeaveFeedback.org, a free service for local businesses to help improve online customer feedback, customer reviews, and local …
New Local Search News Site
Steve Espinosa, the world’s biggest Chicago White Sox fan, local search expert and a frequent speaker on Local at the many conferences, has just rolled out a new local search site called Local Search News. It will be an everything local site with both tactical and strategic information on Google Maps, Yahoo Local, Local SEO, …
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