{"id":571,"date":"2008-03-28T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/local-links-of-interest-47\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:28:38","slug":"local-links-of-interest-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/local-links-of-interest-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptech.allthingsd.com\/20080327\/dashs-car-navigator-gives-smart-directions-if-others-participate\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Dash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, if Others Participate\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, if Others Participate<\/a> &#8211; Walt Mossburg, WSJ<\/p>\n<p>I have not really been following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/03\/27\/review-dash-gps\/\">Dash<\/a> but after having read Mossburg&#8217;s article in the WSJ it struck as quite significant that your car would act as a data &#8220;probe&#8221; to provide real time traffic information to a community of users. Very Cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soloseo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/leavefeedback\/\" style=\"color: black\" title=\"Permalink\">Announcing LeaveFeedback.org, Free Service for Local Businesses<\/a> &#8211; Michael Jensen, SoloSEO<\/p>\n<p>This is very useful product that I will hopefully have more time to write about later. It vastly simplifies the process by which a small business gets reviews from his\/her customer. It is the last 50 feet of local and creates a &#8220;virtuous cycle&#8221; with benefits for all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localseoguide.com\/facebook-pages-local-search-engine-optimization\/\">Facebook Pages &amp; Local Search Engine Optimization<\/a> &#8211; Andrew Shotland, LocalSEOGuide<\/p>\n<p>I am not a facebook maven but this technique appeared to be valuable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearthblog.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/global_temperature_trends_for_googl.html\">Global Temperature Trends for Google Earth<\/a> &#8211; Frank Taylor, Google Earth Blog<\/p>\n<p>I never ceased to be amazed at the wondrous information that makes it way into a map these days. This is one of those cases and what you see in Google Earth today, you will see in Google Maps tomorrow (not literally but you knew that).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadgetmobile.com\/2008\/03\/22\/google-maps-for-mobile-gets-native-on-uiq\/\"><span id=\"ppt1145321\">Google Maps for mobile gets native on UIQ<\/span><\/a> &#8211; Sean Cooper, enGadgetMobile<\/p>\n<p>I recognize that this is old news that I meant to post a while ago. When you combine this effort to claim prime real estate on your cell phone screen with the <a href=\"http:\/\/localmobilesearch.net\/?p=530\">reports of a new interface for Google mobile<\/a>  I see Google maneuvering to become the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mediapost.com\/search_insider\/?p=732\">habitual choice<\/a> in the world of mobile with or without the carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, if Others Participate &#8211; Walt Mossburg, WSJ I have not really been following the Dash but after having read Mossburg&#8217;s article in the WSJ it struck as quite significant that your car would act as a data &#8220;probe&#8221; to provide real time traffic information to a community of users. &#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-571","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\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}