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Oct 30
2012

Notes from Seattle Interactive: Microsoft and the Multi-Device User

Hot trends in Web and marketing were all on display this week at Seattle Interactive, a large regional show with 190 speakers and an audience largely comprised of Northwest agencies, startups and technologists. The change in media was brilliantly illustrated by a single question posed by a speaker. “How many of you responded to a …continue reading »

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Oct 2
2012

MeNetwork Aims at the One Stop Mobile Marketing Platform for SMBs

One of the most promising concepts in local are “Write Once, Publish Everywhere” platforms for SMBs. With local businesses needing to communicate more and more deals, new features and special events to their customers, it makes sense to get them on a network to reach more people with one effort. Yext and Google’s “tag” networks …continue reading »

Categories: Mobile, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Technology

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Jun 7
2012

Elevation’s McNamee: Microsoft and Google Won’t be Able to Recreate Their Success

Elevation Partners’ Roger McNamee – friend of Bono’s, the lead in the failed resurrection of Palm, and a winner in the Facebook IPO to the tune of $1.5 Billion – is known as a contrarian thinker. He did not disappoint in a keynote address yesterday at The San Diego Venture Group’s annual summit. His main …continue reading »

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Apr 2
2012

Top 10 Takeaways from ILM East 2012 (and Thank You!)

ILM East 2012 took place last week in Boston, and is now one for the history books. It was definitely a fun show that really showcased the fast moving local innovations that BIA/Kelsey focuses on. There are many learnings we can focus on as takeaways, but in the interest of good reading, how about a …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Technology

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Mar 27
2012

ILM East: NYT’s Michael Zimbalist on The Importance of Linked Data

The New York Times and other news organizations have been hampered by the short cuts of HTML and hyperlinks, but are now reclassifying to provide more structured, fluid data in a major development with massive implications, notes New York Times VP of Research Operations Michael Zimbalist, who keynoted Day 2 at ILM East. The benefits …continue reading »

Categories: Journalism, Newspapers, Technology

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Mar 13
2012

Constant Contact Founder Randy Parker: ‘Stop the Fragmentation, SMBs Can’t Cope’

The arrival of Groupon and Living Social four years ago appeared to be a no money down, fail-safe way to get ahold of small business accounts. But the followup hasn’t been easy, and the race to win SMB accounts is still anybody’s to win. In fact, there is no single “disruptive” door into the marketplace …continue reading »

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Mar 8
2012

Google Offers’ Nitin Mangtani Set to Keynote at ILM East

Here’s what we’ve been waiting to announce: Google Offers’ head Nitin Mangtani will join our great list of keynoters at ILM East March 26-28 in Boston. We believe Mangtani’s appearance marks one of the first public debuts of Google Offers, which is playing a major role in Google’s vital local strategy, along with Google Places, …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Newspapers, Research, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Technology, Verticals, Video

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