{"id":652,"date":"2008-05-08T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-05-08T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T22:57:12","slug":"local-links-of-interest-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/local-links-of-interest-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080508-072422.php\">\u00c2\u00a0Small Business Marketing Success Story: Avante Gardens<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Matt McGee, SearchEngineland<\/p>\n<p>This interview with Cathy Rulloda is a great overview of good practices. Cathy is always at the forefront of using the internet for local marketing in the very tough florist arena and she more than holds her own.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to Free-411 Rolls Out Dial Directions\u00c2\u00a0Nationally\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/08\/free-411-rolls-out-dial-directions-nationally\/\">Free-411 Rolls Out Dial Directions\u00c2\u00a0Nationally<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#038;\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent Link to Jingle Goes Nationwide with Dial Directions\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/localmobilesearch.net\/?p=654\">Jingle Goes Nationwide with Dial Directions<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Greg Sterling, Screenwerks\/Local Mobile<\/p>\n<p><em>Against that backdrop Jingle needs to continue to develop, market and differentiate its service if it hopes to stay ahead of this increasing competition. One way it has sought to do that is by\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/localmobilesearch.net\/?p=460\"><em>offering Dial Directions service<\/em><\/a><em>, which as of today is now available nationally: any location to any other location (by address or intersection).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I see Free 411 services as a critical bridge service between the phones of today and the mobile internet of tomorrow and the services use much the same data set that we have been working with. Greg offers this interesting chart of Free 411 intents:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3099\/2475351575_5abdd01c7c.jpg\" alt=\"Free 411 Intent\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brainoff.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/16\/1328#comments\">How do we determine the names of things<\/a> -\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Mikel Maron, BrainOff.com<\/p>\n<p>A mid April post that takes a fascinating look at the politics and policies involved in naming places. What we often assume is an absolute in a Map is really \u00c2\u00a0a fluid, conflicted political &#038; social battle. How does Google handle the conflicts that arise? How does OpenStreetMap do so? An eye opening and educational piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Small Business Marketing Success Story: Avante Gardens\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Matt McGee, SearchEngineland This interview with Cathy Rulloda is a great overview of good practices. Cathy is always at the forefront of using the internet for local marketing in the very tough florist arena and she more than holds her own. Free-411 Rolls Out Dial Directions\u00c2\u00a0Nationally\u00c2\u00a0&#038;\u00c2\u00a0Jingle Goes Nationwide &#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-652","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\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}