{"id":2533,"date":"2009-02-27T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2009-03-02T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:11:29","slug":"local-links-of-interest-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/local-links-of-interest-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mapquest-a-symbol-of-everything-thats-gone-wrong-2009-2\">MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That&#8217;s Gone Wrong<\/a> &#8211; John McKinley, Silicon Valley Insider<\/p>\n<p>John McKinley, a former AOL President of Digital Services, offers a concise and pointed critique of Mapquest&#8217;s loss of market dominance and what needs to be done about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmihm.com\/blog\/local-seo\/local-search-behavior-by-industry-category\/\">Local Search Behavior by Industry Category<\/a> &#8211; David Mihm, Mihmorandum<\/p>\n<p>Do the IYPs offer any real value? David highlights a chart from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localsearchstudy.com\/\">Comscore\/TMP study<\/a> that seems to indicate so, primarily in industries that have low web penetration. I am not buying but see what you think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/160173\/windows_mobile_65_obsolete_already.html\">Windows Mobile 6.5 &#8212; Obsolete Already?<\/a> Ian Paul, PC World<\/p>\n<p><em>With Windows Mobile 7 coming out so soon, some people may just forget about Mobile 6.5 altogether and wait for the more advanced system. This is particularly problematic for Microsoft, since it&#8217;s already clear that Windows 6.0 and 6.1 device owners won&#8217;t be able to run Mobile 6.5. So if Mobile 7 is also going to require a new device, then why not wait a few more months for the newer system?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Local Search Directories List\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emarketingmatador.com\/step-2-local-search-directories\">Local Search Directories List<\/a> emarketingmatador.com<\/p>\n<p>Has put together a great reference list of US local, directories, IYP &amp; upstream data provider sources that one should consider when planning a local campaign. Minor quibble: the only source missing was iBegin.com. While I like and use UBL, I think you should take control of  Google (and a few others) as it is far too critical in the successful campaign mix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/explore-more-with-user-photos-in-street.html\">Explore more with User Photos in Street View<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Google Lat-Long<\/p>\n<p>Google has been integrating Panoramio images into Maps and <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/local-seo-tip-google-maps-loves-panoramios-geotagged-images\/comment-page-1\/\">Maps Business Listings<\/a> for a while. Now they are integrating them with Streetview. Greg Sterling has an <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-maps-adds-user-photos-to-street-view-16703\">interesting comparison<\/a> of this new feature with Micorosoft Live&#8217;s Photosynth at SearchEngineLand.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That&#8217;s Gone Wrong &#8211; John McKinley, Silicon Valley Insider John McKinley, a former AOL President of Digital Services, offers a concise and pointed critique of Mapquest&#8217;s loss of market dominance and what needs to be done about it. Local Search Behavior by Industry Category &#8211; David Mihm, Mihmorandum Do the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-local-mobil","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}