Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Jun 10
2010

Pew: 1 of 5 Neighbors Communicate Digitally

“Neighbors Online,” a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, has found that 20 percent are using digital tools such as email, texting and social networks to communicate with their neighbors. Twenty two percent have signed up to receive local issue alerts via email or SMS. Eleven percent also …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Research

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Jul 14
2009

Maponics Adds Zip Code Data to Neighborhood Info

Maponics, a provider of polygonal neighborhood boundary data based on both GIS and sociological data, is launching a suite of services that match the data with zip codes. The Norwich,VT-based company, which has around 30 staffers, says it is now tracking 66,000 neighborhoods in the U.S. and Canada. Customers for Maponics data include Google, Trulia, …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Mapping, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Feb 19
2009

HelloMetro Rides Google’s City Name Keywords

One of the homespun stories of interactive local media is the rise of HelloMetro, a city guide company that started in 1999 as an entrepreneurial effort in Louisville, KY, and has since grown to include 15 staffers, including five direct salespeople. The company, which has hundreds of Hello(City name) city guides, made $7.5 million in …continue reading »

Categories: Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Mapping, Mobile, Money, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals, 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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