{"id":496,"date":"2008-02-24T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/local-links-of-interest-39\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T13:36:11","slug":"local-links-of-interest-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/local-links-of-interest-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solaswebdesign.net\/wordpress\/?p=184\">Google Local Maps Is Not Yellow Pages<\/a> &#8211; Miriam Ellis, SEO Igloo<\/p>\n<p>An insightful piece on the conflict between SMB expecations and reality in Google Maps and what Google can do to help improve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;<strong>not every Map Idea is a Good Map Idea<\/strong>&#8221; Category:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogto.com\/tech\/2008\/02\/my_neighbours_are_nucking_futs\/\">My Neighbors are Nucking Futs<\/a> &#8211; Jerrold, blogto.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes truly ill-conceived ideas meet easily-accessed technology and make it to the web. Rotten Neighbors (pardon the American spelling) is one such not-so-bright idea that somehow made it through development and has gone live online.The idea is simple. Using the Google Maps interface, you point to a house or building and tell the world how crazy\/sleazy\/ugly\/horny\/etc the occupants are.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_apps_serious_threat_to_microsoft_office.php\">Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office<\/a> &#8211; Bernard Lunn, ReadWriteWeb.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Not only is Google miles ahead of MS on collaboration, they have moved ahead on mobile access. I have long believed that mobile would be a key driver for Web Office. Now I can get access to my Docs from my Blackberry. When I switch to an iPhone with that bigger screen, I will be able to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sayonara\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to my laptop even more. In that world, MS Office looks like a real dinosaur.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Local Maps Is Not Yellow Pages &#8211; Miriam Ellis, SEO Igloo An insightful piece on the conflict between SMB expecations and reality in Google Maps and what Google can do to help improve the situation. In the &#8220;not every Map Idea is a Good Map Idea&#8221; Category: My Neighbors are Nucking Futs &#8211; Jerrold, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}