Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Jan 29
2010

Newspapers Partner with AllMenus.com for Online Food Orders

AllMenus.com, the online ordering portal with 255,000 restaurant menus around the country and 3,500 online ordering relationships, will focus on specific local markets via a new partnership program that gives a portion of revenues to newspapers or other local promotional partners. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette is live, and other newspapers and local media companies are …continue reading »

Categories: Misc, Newspapers, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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Jan 29
2010

Center’d Focuses on Local’s ‘Content Overload’

Center’d started its mission in June 2008 like most city guides, albeit one largely aimed at women and planning. But over time, the local space has changed. And the site itself has refocused to meet “the missing pieces” in local. CEO Jennifer Dulski and CTO Chandu Thota, in a conversation with us, say they’d encountered …continue reading »

Categories: Misc

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Jan 28
2010

Examiner.com Nears 30,000 Local Contributors

Examiner.com, the Philip Anschutz-backed site that calls itself “the insider source for everything local,” says it is likely to pass 30,000 active contributors, or “Examiners,” within days, and 85,000 by 2011. The current tally includes 1,234 active contributors in LA, 1,189 active contributors in New York , 921 in Chicago, 901 in San Francisco, 900 …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Verticals

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Jan 28
2010

Elevation Buys into Yelp

Bono and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman As widely reported last week, Yelp has confirmed that it will receive a $25 million investment from Elevation Partners, which is widely known for the involvement of U2 frontman Bono among its seven partners. Elevation, which manages $1.9 billion, will also seek to increase its total investment to $100 …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Social Media

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Jan 28
2010

Local Matters Unveils Search and Social Platform for IYPs

Here’s a question: How long would directory publishers sit back and let new companies such as RedBeacon, AlikeList and others disrupt the leads economy for SMBs with search and socially driven features such as Twitter and Facebook? Or Google, with Place Pages? That’s a question that Local Matters and other Yellow Pages vendors have obviously …continue reading »

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Jan 27
2010

VC Frank Quattrone: ‘Vertical Stacks of Tech’ is Trend

Venture capital king Frank Quattrone (the banker behind Amazon, Netscape and Cisco) has a message: IPOs have gotten too big, innovation is being stifled, exits are being delayed and firms need straight-forward advice, not Wall Street “casinos.” “Wall Street no longer knows how to value,” he complained, during a breakfast talk before 500+ VCs and …continue reading »

Categories: Money, Technology

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Jan 22
2010

eBay Founder Planning Local News Service in Hawaii

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and former eBay VP Randy Ching are setting up a local public affairs and civic news site in Hawaii, where Omidyar lives, according to a post on Omidyar’s blog that was picked up by Paid Content. Former Rocky Mountain News editor and publisher John Temple has been hired as its editor, …continue reading »

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    Thanks for coming to my personal site. Most of the content on this site is also found on BIA/Kelsey’s Local Media Watch, which includes material from other BIA/Kelsey analysts. I am a Vice President with BIA/Kelsey, and am focused on the Marketplaces research program.

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