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Weekly Wrap Up - Industry News, 30 May 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

 Winning the Local Search Battle
Yahoo!’s Frazier Miller to Keynote SMX Local & Mobile
Buses To Use Mobile Technology To Become Road Sensors
Vertical Networks: So Close But Yet So Far
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google

Google Opens Google App Engine
Razor Selects Where 2 Get It’s Buy Online/Buy Offline Product Locator
Impact of Local […]

Kelsey conference, Drilling Down on Local ’08 - Recaps

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

The three day Kelsey conference, Drilling Down on Local ’08 was by most accounts a success.
Among the blogs commenting on the conference are Kate Kaye’s “Random Notes.”
Peter Krasilovsky’s comments, “Yahoo!’s Michael Yang at Kelsey Seattle: Verticals Front-and-Center,” excerpted from the advisory written for Kelsey Marketplace clients.
And Andrew Shotland’s blogs containing live updates from the event.
Kelsey […]

Call-Based Advertising: A Key Extension to Local Search

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Local advertising has always been about making the phone ring.
As I mentioned in our recently released report, “2008 Perspectives on Local Online Advertising and Content,” we expect the demand for call-based advertising services, such as call tracking and pay-per-phone call, will accompany the growing demand for click-based advertising services.
The majority of the 15 million SMBs […]

Weekly Wrapup - 8 February 2008

Friday, February 8th, 2008

For the week ending: 8 February 2008
LocalPoint News:
Always Look on the Right Side
Solving pain = opportunity…
Y.M.C.A
Industry News:
What If Print Yellow Pages Become ‘Opt-in’?
CoPilot Taps Microsoft for Local Search
(Mobile Phone GPS System Builds in Search Results)
Mobile search: What are 600m Chinese mobile users searching for?

Google Releases Early Version of Android

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Today Google released an early version of Android, its open software platform for mobile phones. With the release Google is offering $10 million in prize money to developers who create top software applications for Android in a competition dubbed the ‘Android Developer Challenge.’
It will be interesting to see what local search applications beyond Google […]

Mobile Ad Growth: Let’s talk about consumers

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Mobile buzz has reached record highs over the last few months.
The mounting buzz comes from varied sources, including bulging forecasts ($5.08B by 2012), Google’s Android announcement, Yahoo! distribution deals, and of course the iPhone. It seems my blog reader is cluttered with mobile.
Along these lines yesterday I came across some interesting comments made by Yahoo! […]