Just found out that someone has uploaded the video of the presentation I gave at the European Association of Directory Publishers (EADP) conference last May in Barcelona. Topic was: “Blended Search: Local Media Content Discovery”.
Watch it in three parts here:
Watch Part 1
Watch Part 2
Watch Part 3
You can follow with the slides on Slideshare.
Version 3.5 of the Firefox browser was made available for download this morning. As I write this 1.9 million people had downloaded the new version of the popular Mozilla-based browser. As most people interested in local search and local media know, it now includes a geolocation feature which will play a big role in transforming the web into a more [...]
Bloomberg just published a short interview with Tim Kendall, Facebook’s director of product marketing for monetization. In it, we learn that small businesses seem to be embracing Facebook ads.
Facebook Inc. said the number of customers using its automated online-advertising system more than tripled in the past year, a sign more small- and medium- sized [...]
Friday’s New York Times analyzes a quote from one of the VCs that has invested in Twitter. We learn that shopping and e-commerce might play an important in monetizing the social network’s product recommendation traffic:
Someday, when you ask your Twitter followers to recommend the most comfortable running shoe or the best digital camera, you might [...]
According to this Forbes.com article, AT&T is preparing to launch a social Yellow Pages site to compete against Yelp and likes.
Later this year, AT&T plans to roll out an alternative brand for local search, geared primarily at younger users. The site will feature the same core data–listings and advertiser information–as Yellowpages.com, but differ in how [...]
From the Facebook corporate blog, Look Who’s Talking Now announces that Facebook is testing a better, more powerful Facebook search engine. That engine will allow users to find information from a variety of activity displayed in your friends’ activity stream.
Those of you in the test group will see new layouts for search results that will [...]
A recent speech by Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, discussed the free vs. paid content debate:
When he addressed how this is affecting media and whether or not traditional media organizations should charge for their content online, he draws a number of conclusions from what the Wall Street Journal is doing. The tension is not so [...]
According to French newspaper Le Monde, transit users in Paris will be able to access the subway, bus and region train systems with their cell phones at the end of 2010. Tickets/passes will downloaded on mobile devices via short-range wireless communications (NFC). The article mentions that tickets will be transferable between phones.
via Le “téléphone-ticket de [...]
As most people reading this blog know, I’m very active on Twitter (1000+ followers), Facebook (770+ “friends”) and LinkedIn (1300+ direct connections). I’m often asked how (and why) I use these three networks and wanted to share with my readers the usual answer I provide.
First, LinkedIn. According to their Web site, “LinkedIn is an interconnected network of [...]
Firefox 3.5 is on the verge of being released and it will include geolocation. According to this post, “Firefox 3.5 includes a simple JavaScript API that allows you to quickly geo-enable your web application. It allows users to optionally share their location with websites without having to type in a postal code.” Firefox will use local WiFi [...]
I just finished giving my presentation at the European Association of Directory Publishers (EADP) conference in Barcelona, Spain. Topic was “Blended Search: Local Media Content Discovery”. It explores blended/universal search as it currently appears in a local context in search engines and local search sites. I propose in the presentation that the evolution of blended local search and [...]
Heard from Stephen Taylor, Qype’s CEO, this morning in a presentation titled “Competition from new business models”. As most of you know, Qype is a social local site in Europe (we could say it’s the equivalent of Yelp there).
Here are some interesting data points about them:
The largest local review site in Europe (also present [...]
Microsoft’s new search engine Bing excels at finding a good restaurant. Unlike Google, which generally returns links to mere web sites, Bing crawls listings at review services like Yelp.com and CitySearch. It then summarizes the results and displays a scorecard for each, rating things like service, drinks, food, wait time, lunch offerings, and so on, [...]
(…) discussed what’s emerging as one of Schneider’s top priorities to help jump start the company: more local content and more local ads.
Rather than confine news and other local content to a separate product, Yahoo wanted to extend the “lens of local” across all its programming. That includes everything from being able to show a [...]
Over on the Praized product blog, learn about Praized Media’s first “enterprise” deployment with Canada’ s Yellow Pages Group. Version française ici.