Archive for April, 2010

Twitter’s next try at the local search: the tweeting service announced a new feature at the Chirp-Conference in San Francisco, which is considered to be the first step to becoming a local directory – Points of Interest. Whether or not this will be a “local search tsunami” or the “Trojan horse of local search”, as predicted by Andrew Shotland from Search Engine Land, only time can tell. Read the rest of this entry »

Groupon is showing just how popular the combination of online-couponing with local search really is. The Chicago based newbie can definitely celebrate over a heavy chunk of cash from the Russians – namely $135 million. Read the rest of this entry »

Google released some interesting statistics with the release of Google Places. One of which being that 20% of every search conducted is directed towards the local market. Read the rest of this entry »

The doers of Mountain View are making it pop yet again. Google’s new local business center is called Google Places. That’s not only an embellished name, but also represents a number of new features. But is this move an assult on the Gelben Seiten, like t3n says? Read the rest of this entry »

Like the goalkeeper’s fear of a penalty shot, firms are now afraid of online ratings. A new study about company business ratings from GoLocal and the GfK shows exactly how precautious business owners are when it comes to social media. Read the rest of this entry »

The Google Model Your Town Competition is close to the finish-line. Five teams have made it through the global competition to the finals. Braunschweig is one of them. Users can now vote for their favorites. The winner gets cash and, of course, fame.

Not even two weeks ago, the experts were shocked that Foursquare has way more than half a million users. Now, the check-in community has beat 700,000. The number of check-ins is over 20 million. Blogger Ben Parr from Mashable said: “Our expectations of Foursquare becoming the Twitter of 2010 could become reality.”

Sometimes you get the impression that the Social Media makes fun of itself. Checkin Mania from Fast Company is now showing users who is using which check-in service and where. In contrast,Check.in allows its users to check in over Foursquare, Brightkite and Gowalls at the same time… Read the rest of this entry »

One would think that with the Local Search, every provider would be available for the iPhone, but there are always a few lagging behind. One of them is Townster. Read the rest of this entry »

Google is still going with the flow: Mountain View has finally realized that there are a lot of small companies with a local-base, but don’t necessarily operate locally. Read the rest of this entry »