I like all the services using LinkedIn as their platform for social networking. The local implications haven’t really come into focus yet, but the latest publisher to put something out is Business Week, with its Business Exchange.
Developed by former PowerOneMedia tech guy Issac Sacolick, Business Exchange uses LinkedIn profile information as a […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
Extensions of LinkedIn (Continued)
September 25, 2008 – 12:19 am
Just Announced: Big Time Lineup for ILM 08, Silicon Valley
September 24, 2008 – 9:31 pm
OK, we’ve got the format(s) and “best and brightest” speaker roster set for Interactive Local Media: Extending Local Channels, which is Nov. 19-21 in Santa Clara, next to San Jose.
At the top of the list is Angie Hicks, “the Angie” from Angie’s List, and Rodney Rice from ServiceMagic. They’ll tell it all during one-on-one […]
Comcast Teams with Mixpo in Push for Online Video
September 22, 2008 – 11:58 pm
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable TV company, is set to upsell its vast body of video advertisers via a new deal with Mixpo, the Seattle-based venture backed company dedicated to making video “actionable” across multiple platforms. For Mixpo, the deal represents its first foray into cable. It already has deals with several newspapers, including The […]
DMS ‘08: AT&T Advertising and Publishing CMO Ken Ray
September 19, 2008 – 12:47 am
AT&T CMO Ken Ray, speaking on a panel at Kelsey’s DMS 08 event this week in Atlanta, said print books have plenty of life in them but that publishers have got to work to make them relevant with “URLs, email, texting..using cell phones as a transactional device….a whole set of things we are already seeing […]
DMS ‘08: V-Enable –The Potential for Mobile Voice Search
September 19, 2008 – 12:22 am
Local voice search advertising is already getting promising results, with widespread reach, and high click through rates, according to V-Enable CMO Craig Hagopian, who was speaking at DMS 08. V-Enable is a San Diego-based mobile voice search company with 65 employees. It partners with SuperPages.com, Yellow Book, and AT&T’s Ingenio and Yellowpages.com
Hagopian […]
DMS ‘08 Keynote: Briggs Ferguson, President, Idearc Internet
September 17, 2008 – 1:45 pm
Former Citysearch President Briggs Ferguson, who took the helm at Idearc Internet and its Superpages.com flagship about five months ago, said during a keynote at Kelsey’s DMS show in Atlanta that he sees tremendous potential for the Yellow Pages industry. “It should be much bigger than it is today. At the very least, we get […]
DMS ‘08 Keynote: Marc Tellier, Chairman, YPG Group
September 16, 2008 – 3:57 pm
YPG Group of Canada, which is widely considered as one of the best positioned Yellow Pages companies in the world, will continue to focus on manning its sales channel, resisting efforts to rely too heavily on self serve solutions, according to YPG Chairman Marc Tellier.
“Search engine companies will privately admit self service isn’t working,” says […]