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Local Onliner

Oct 22
2008

Mark Cuban, Jonathan Kraft Invest in CitySquares

Mark Cuban, the dotcom entrepreneur who has launched broadcast.com and HD Net and now has greater renown as the colorful owner of The Dallas Mavericks, has given the entire local ecosystem a big shot in the arm by investing in CitySquares, the New England-based local business directory that is going national. In September 2008, CitySquares …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Money, Shopping/Transactions

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Oct 20
2008

Real Estate Woes (Finally) Hit Zillow, RedFin

It is counter-intuitive that Web 2.0 real estate sites would continue to grow their audience and ad dollars while the industry “scrapes along the bottom” for years to come. The sites, though, still say they are growing. “Fear, value-shopping, and curiosity are driving people in record volumes to our site,” noted Zillow CEO Rich Barton …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Misc, Verticals

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Oct 17
2008

Topix CEO on Site’s Evolution as a Local Portal

When Topix first came on to the scene in 2003, it primarily crawled local news. These days, the 30-person company has largely remade itself into more of a local portal, especially for smaller markets. It still isn’t profitable, but CEO Chris Tolles says it delivers a lot of upside to its primary owners: Gannett, Tribune …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, HyperLocal, Newspapers, Yellow Pages

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Oct 16
2008

Eventful CEO on $10 Million Funding, Mobile, and Ticketmaster Deal

Eventful, which competes with Zvents for leadership (and affiliates) in the fast changing local events marketplace, has just completed a new $10 million C round lead by Telefonica Capital. Also participating are alumni investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bay Partners. In all, $19.6 million has been raised. CEO Jordan Glazier notes that the company …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Local Search, Mobile, Money

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Oct 15
2008

Latest News on ILM:08, Santa Clara (Nov.19-21)

We’re just about ready to go with Interactive Local Media: 08, which is Nov.19-21 in Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley. It should be a very important, game-defining event – and the first one for The Kelsey Group in the new BIA Advisory Services era (they acquired Kelsey last week, adding resources and …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Conferences, Google, HyperLocal, Mapping, Misc, Mobile, Money, Newspapers, Research, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Technology, TV/Radio, Verticals, Video, Yahoo, Yellow Pages

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Oct 14
2008

Relocating? New Service Finds Similar Neighborhoods

Neighborhood-level intelligence isn’t always easy to find, for residents, travelers or resettlers. We have neighborhood boundaries, courtesy of the sociologists and mapmakers at Urban Mapping. But other information can be scant. Now we have another view from the real estate brain-trust of Niki Scevak’s Homethinking, which rolls out a service today that lets users compare …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Local Search, Verticals

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Oct 14
2008

Angie’s List Giving Away Flip VideoCams for 15 Reviews

Getting people to submit reviews is hard. We’ve seen incentives such as $5 coffee cards (a lot), $10 gas cards, and direct donations to charity (InsiderPages‘ current model). People complain that reports that are stimulated by such efforts aren’t as carefully done, and they tend to be for restaurants and bars. There are usually few …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, HyperLocal, Misc, Verticals, Video

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