{"id":2831,"date":"2009-03-24T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2009-03-24T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:32:46","slug":"local-links-of-interest-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/local-links-of-interest-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/local-search-customer-reviews\/9466\/\">Leveraging Small Business Customer Reviews and Testimonials Online<\/a> &#8211; Steven Brier<\/p>\n<p>Great summary of all the reasons customer testimonials should be an integrated part of your customer relations strategy and how to make it so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/news\/news.phtml\/23057\/24081\/microsoft-takes-on-google-streetview.phtml\">Microsoft GeoSynth to take on Google Street View<\/a> &#8211; Stuart Miles, PocketLint.com<\/p>\n<p>Although not due to be launched until later in the year, this appears to be a story about vaporware but it is cool none the less. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalsearchblog.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/28\/smx-lomo-keynote-gur-kimchi\/#more-364\">Virtual Earth utilizes<\/a> some impressive technology and when combined with <a href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/06\/photosynth-comes-to-live-maps\/\">Photosynth<\/a> could offer some intriguing possibilities as an alternative to StreetView.<\/p>\n<p><em>Called GeoSynth, the service will be based on the company&#8217;s PhotoSynth technology and takes into account geographical data within images. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Users will be able to upload geotagged images into a central database to help build detailed larger images of a given landmark in a similar way to how the company&#8217;s PhotoSynth software works.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"big_red_link\" title=\"Three-Quarters of the World's Messages Sent by Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/enews.emarketer.com\/m\/1e5GddyJHHySspdiSSfYC1Ckstwn8GyLWj5wcrCtiIuM4NYqXw\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Three-Quarters of the World&#8217;s Messages Sent by Mobile<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">\u00a0&#8211; eMarketer.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">It gives a sense of just how big the mobile world is if 3\/4&#8217;s of the world&#8217;s digital messages (including spam?) are sent via mobile.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leveraging Small Business Customer Reviews and Testimonials Online &#8211; Steven Brier Great summary of all the reasons customer testimonials should be an integrated part of your customer relations strategy and how to make it so. 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