Social TV Merchant Circle provides instant website for SMBs By Matt Sokoloff on Aug. 13, 2008 - 5:57 PM Part of making Local Search successful is going beyond just listings. Merchant Circle is doing a lot to prove they are more than just the yellow pages online. They already have coupons, deals, blogs, reviews and newsletters, but n ...
Social TV Classified Ventures down 13% By Matt Sokoloff on Aug. 13, 2008 - 5:36 PM Cars.com, Homescape, Apartments.com, RentalHomesPlus, and HomeGain aren’t immune from the dip in ad revenue. Classified Ventures LLC which runs those sites is now valued at $338 million down from $382 million in December 200 ...
Social TV Zvents partners with MSN City Guides By Matt Sokoloff on Aug. 4, 2008 - 10:43 AM Zvents, a local search/events website, will now provide the event listings for MSN City Guides. While MSN’s City Guides aren’t a huge competitor for local eyeballs, they could easily be. It’s very easy to add ...
Social TV SocialMedian now in public beta By Matt Sokoloff on Aug. 3, 2008 - 10:57 AM For the past couple of months my main source of news was a new site called SocialMedian. The site had been in Alpha, but as of Friday it is now in open beta. The basics of the site is that you can join news networks (iPhone, Campa ...
Social TV Qik now in public beta By Matt Sokoloff on Jul. 23, 2008 - 7:05 PM Qik, a video streaming service moved into public beta today. You’ve read about Qik on LostRemote before. I thought it was pretty cool when we started streaming via a SlingBox but imagine a newsroom full of reporters who can ...
Social TV Google unveils Knol, a Wikipedia/media competitor By Matt Sokoloff on Jul. 23, 2008 - 6:49 PM Today Google announced that they are opening Knol (short for Knowledge). The Wikipedia like site allows users to create articles about anything. The twist is, they allow the author of the article to manage the updates. That means ...
Social TV LinkedIn Partners with New York Times By Matt Sokoloff on Jul. 22, 2008 - 12:06 PM If users don’t find business news relevant because it’s local, they typically find it relevant because it’s about their industry. LinkedIn will begin showing headlines from the NYT’s business and technol ...
Social TV Newsroom cuts hurting quality? By Matt Sokoloff on Jul. 22, 2008 - 10:40 AM According to an AP story about a study done by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, newspaper cutbacks are affecting the quality of their product. When you actually read the story or the results (as opposed to just the CNN he ...
Social TV Dex adds local city pages By Matt Sokoloff on Jul. 16, 2008 - 7:23 AM Google isn’t the only company trying to take a bite out of the local market. Dex has been moving rapidly into many local markets with Dexknows.com a local search website. Now Dex has expanded their reach by creating landing ...
Social TV YouTube adds local search By Matt Sokoloff on Jul. 11, 2008 - 10:13 AM Yes, you could always type in a location to get videos about that location, but that presented some problems. Â Search “Orlando” on YouTube and you get mostly videos of Orlando Bloom. Now there is a location feature f ...