Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Feb 11
2010

Associated Content: ‘Local is a Differentiator’

The new breed of content aggregators is among the biggest bets in online media. These companies are assembling content from hundreds of thousands of contributors; optimizing it on the search engines so that it is easily found; and syndicating it. Demand Media is probably the biggest company in the space. But others include Examiner.com, which …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Local Search, Social Media

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Oct 27
2009

Armstrong: IYP ‘More Important, Not Less;’ Hyperlocal ‘Patch’ Spreads

AOL CEO Tim Armstong,

Categories: Conferences, HyperLocal, Local Search, Yellow Pages

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Aug 20
2009

Hyperlocal Roundup: WaPo Pulls Out, AOL’s Patch Adds 2 Towns

Hyperlocal, everyone’s favorite unproven concept, has been back in the news this week. It started a couple of weeks ago. BackFence Founder Mark Potts’ announced that he has formed a high profile team and built ad technology to drive network and local revenues for up to “2000 hyperlocal sites” – an interesting and large number. …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Newspapers

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Jun 11
2009

AOL Acquires Armstrong’s Patch, Plus Going.com

John Brod, Patch.com AOL reaffirmed its strong interest in local today, announcing that it is purchasing Patch.com, a 25 person hyperlocal service invested in by new CEO Tim Armstrong when he was still at Google; and Going.com, an events-driven social network and self-serve ticketing platform aimed at 20- somethings. Patch.com is currently in five suburban …continue reading »

Categories: Google, HyperLocal, Money

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