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Category Archive For "Local Mobile"
Loci 2008- Greg Sterling’s Significant Developments in Local in 2008
Greg Sterling is a widely respected industry consultant in Local, Local Search & Local Mobile. He writes prolifically at his blog, Screenwerk, Local Mobile Search and SearchEngineLand where is a contributing editor. He plays a significant role in organizing SMX Local and the local tracks at the other SMX conferences. ***** I’m not a “search …
Most Read Posts of 2008
Most Read New Articles in 2008 Here are the 10 articles (who picked 10 as the appropriate number, anyways?) written in 2008 that received the most readership during the past year. Readership and traffic have moved up significantly compared to last year, growing along with the broader interest in Local. My Top 10 most read stories of …
SMB PPC Ad Spend Drop
Noa Gertin of Palore has recently completed some interesting research on SMB PPC ad spends. They looked at over 3000 SMBs who advertise online, on different websites, out of which they focused on 300 businesses who also advertised on search engines in the past 5 months. They filtered out nationwide chains and all SMBs with more than …
VoteReport: Near Real time mapping of voter reports
Andrew Turner of the HighEarthOrbit.com blog, reported on his work developing VoteReport: an open public reporting system to be used during the 2008 US Election to track the situation as citizens cast their ballots. The simple goal is to make it easy for anyone to send in a report describing the wait time, overall rating …
Google Voter Information Tool Goes Mobile
Google’s Voter Information Tool has gone mobile. From the official Google Blog: With the U.S. elections less than a week away, voting drives are ramping up. Political parties and non-partisan groups alike are sending out volunteers to encourage citizens to vote on November 4. To make sure these volunteers have the same voter info tools available to …
Local Links of Interest
Where Will Android Go Next? – Om Malik, GigaOm When it comes to its new mobile operating system, Android, Google’s dreams go beyond just mobile phones. Indeed, the company is hoping that the open-source version of the software will eventually find its way into a panoply of devices. iPod Touch serves as a flight ticket – …
Local Mobile: Dinner table market observations
On my last night at SMXEast, I took four 20 somethings out to dinner, two women and two men. It was interesting in that they all seemed to be connected to local mobile across the spectrum of possibilities. One had an iPhone, one could barely use her cell phone for texting, and two would have …
Google Maps: One (data) Ring to Rule Them All
Yesterday I asked whether Google Map’s upward trend continue? Can Mapquest maintain its market share? Or like the IYP space does Google just have too much presence in search to not win this race also? From where I sit, these Map & IYP Market Share comparisons only look at a narrow sliver of Local results …
Eric Enge: Frazier Miller and Shailesh Bhat Interview on Yahoo Local
Eric Enge has an informative and detailed interview today with Frazier Miller and Shailesh Bhat on the inner workings of Yahoo Local. There were many items in the interview of interest and a number of notable contrasts with Google’s fully automated system. Some of the highlights: – Yahoo Local relies very heavily on the licensed …
(The original) Local Links of Interest
U.S. on Track to Top Mobile Net Market, Study Says – Steve McClellan, AdWeek.com Why the change? Kerr cites several reasons, including the fact that U.S. mobile carriers are rapidly building out 3G networks, which facilitate the transmission of mobile Web-based video at faster rates, something that U.K. and other European-based carriers did years ago. …
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