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		<title>The City as a Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Renn (via the Urbanophile blog, a must-read for anyone interested in the dynamics of urban areas) discusses the concept of &#8220;The City as a Platform&#8221;. As a technology platform provider trying to crack open the &#8220;local&#8221; nut for the benefit of local media companies, I like the various analogies mentioned in the post but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/local/the-city-as-a-platform/</link>
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		<title>Twitter to Structure Conversations Around Places</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Twitter API developer group:
i wanted to give you all a heads up on some big changes we&#8217;re making to our  geo-tagging API. (&#8230;) people, we find,inherently want to talk about a &#8220;place&#8221;.  a place, for a lot of people, hasa name and is not a latitude and longitude pair.  37.78215, -122.40060,for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/api/twitter-to-structure-conversations-around-places/</link>
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		<title>Google Becomes a &quot;Local&quot; Search Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has just turned on a nifty location feature in search. Now, you can refine search results with a “Nearby” button, which will filter your results that cater to your location. So if you do a Google search for Italian restaurants, you can click the “Show Options” button to access a “nearby” filter to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/google/google-becomes-a-local-search-engine/</link>
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		<title>Why Do People Ask Questions in Social Networks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a good follow-up to my Google/Aardvark: All About Local? recent blog post, Mathew Ingram from GigaOM covers a new study from MIT and Microsoft Research that explores &#8220;What Do People Ask Their Social Networks, and Why?&#8221;
Ingram describes the &#8220;what&#8221; and mentions that &#8220;according to the survey, questions ranged from the somewhat open-ended and philosophical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/local/why-do-people-ask-questions-in-social-networks/</link>
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		<title>BIA/Kelsey: More Than Half of All Ad Spending Is ‘Local&quot;</title>
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BIA/Kelsey just released their forecast for US Local advertising revenues for the 2009-2014 period.
Highlights:

 U.S. local advertising market will grow to $144.9 billion in 2014 (CAGR: +2.2%)
 Spending on traditional media will decline from $115 billion in 2009 to $108.2 billion in 2014 (CAGR: -1.2%)
 Spending on online/interactive media is projected to grow from $15.2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/aol/the-kelsey-group-more-than-half-of-all-ad-spending-is-%e2%80%98local/</link>
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Honda West
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		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/?p=894</link>
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		<title>Google/Aardvark: All About Local?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google announced last week the acquisition of Aardvark, a social question &#38; answer service. Even though the service had only 90,000+ users (as of last October), they had very good buzz amongst the digerati.
Thinking about a potential integration point, John Battelle said that the goal of Aardvark&#8217;s co-founder would be to be &#8221; integrated into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/google/googleaardvark-all-about-local/</link>
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		<title>Print Map Design Influenced by the Web</title>
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Map2 is a zoomable paper map of London, UK. Yes, zoomable. Yes, print map. See the video here (helpful to understand how the map works).

It&#8217;s sold at these stores in London:
Magma Clerkenwell 
Magma Covent Garden
Architectural Association Bookshop 
What it means: The Web has created new user standards and improved consumption of various offline content. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/london/print-map-design-influenced-by-the-web/</link>
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		<title>O&#039;Reilly On The Killer Business Model of the Mobile World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E-commerce is the killer app of the phone world. Anyone whose business is now based on advertising had better be prepared to link payment and fulfillment directly to search, making buying anything in the world into a one-click purchase. Real time payment from the phone is in your future.
via The Convergence of Advertising and E-commerce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/coupons/oreilly-on-the-killer-business-model-of-the-mobile-world/</link>
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		<title>Social Graph-Based Commenting Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the last two years, I&#8217;ve had the chance to meet with hundreds of traditional media company executives. Often, when talking about social media, one of the first &#8220;mental&#8221; hurdles that needs to be cleared is negative user comments. In merchant reviews, directory publishers are often afraid of negative ones especially as it pertains to advertisers.  In news [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/blogs/social-graph-based-commenting-systems/</link>
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		<title>East Coast Travel This Week</title>
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(original Flickr picture by SophieMuc)
I am traveling on the East Coast this week and I might have some free time in New York on Friday afternoon to meet, chat, have a coffee if anyone is interested. Ping me at sprovencher AT praizedmedia.com.
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		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/sebastien-provencher/east-coast-travel-this-week/</link>
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		<title>Google to Embrace &quot;Newsfeed&quot; Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Scoble reports this morning that he&#8217;s now &#8220;heard from three separate Google employees that Google will release a news feed that will compete with Facebook and Twitter&#8221;. He gives an excellent description of the products that will serve as building blocks for that feed: Google Profiles and Google’s Social Circles Connections. Scoble says it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/facebook/google-to-embrace-newsfeed-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Dennis Crowley (Foursquare): Check-ins Will Be &quot;Commodity by the End of the Year.&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Silicon Alley Insider revealed this morning that Facebook is working on a &#8220;check-in&#8221; functionality similar to the one you can find in Foursquare or Brightkite (and now Yelp). When they reached Dennis Crowley, Foursquare cofounder, he said:
For his part, Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley told us he fully expects Facebook and others to launch &#8220;check-in&#8221; functionality, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/brightkite/dennis-crowley-foursquare-check-ins-will-be-commodity-by-the-end-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Getting to the Next Stage: Praized Media Hires Siemer &amp; Associates to Find Strategic Partner</title>
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One of the first things you learn when you launch your own startup is to actively monitor opportunities in the market and move quickly to leverage them. In my case, it happened three times in the last three years.
The first strategic move happened back in the fall of 2006 when Sylvain Carle, Harry Wakefield and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/about/getting-to-the-next-stage-praized-media-hires-siemer-associates-to-find-strategic-partner/</link>
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		<title>Twitter&#039;s Ineluctable March Towards Local Relevancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Multiple news in the last few days points towards Twitter and Facebook becoming serious forces in the world of &#8220;local&#8221;.
First, in yet another chapter of Twitter&#8217;s improvements to become locally relevant, it has started rolling out its &#8220;local trends&#8221; for a series of US cities and ome countries (probably based on the ones with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.praized.com/seb/facebook/twitters-ineluctable-march-towards-local-relevancy/</link>
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