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Local Onliner

Jul 9
2009

Oodle Adds Twitter; Sees Common Thread with Facebook et al

Oodle has added Twitter to its outlets for social classified listings. Oodle’s other social media outlets also include Facebook, MySpace and AOL. CEO Craig Donato says he hopes to apply the learnings to Twitter from its launches on the other sites. Oodle is obviously less impacted by Twitter’s 140 character limit than other media, since …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, Social Media

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Jun 30
2009

MerchantCircle Adds Local Coupons on Twitter

Coinciding with its high showing in the Quantcast analysis, MerchantCircle today announced that it has added a local city coupon feed for Twitter. Merchant coupons will now be fed to city-specific Twitter feeds (i.e. @MCircleNY) so that local consumers can find local coupons and events in real-time. MerchantCircle reports that more than 50,000 coupons and …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 30
2009

Quantcast Publishes ‘Top 10′ Online Directories

Figuring out who is on top of the heap in the online directory business is a complex task: on one hand, a “directory” category is kind of an oxymoron, given that so much of what is quantified is based on search engine optimization. Only 25 percent of Citysearch’s traffic, for instance, comes from its destination …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Research, Yellow Pages

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Jun 16
2009

Gas Station TV Brings in Local Info Via ‘Prius Neighborhood’

TV and local social media are being integrated in Prius Neighborhood, a new “community-generated” TV program that will highlight the green sensibility of Toyota’s Prius hybrid. Gas pumpers will watch the program on pumpside TVs at over 1,000 gas stations in over 100 DMAs. They can go to a website to submit local events and …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Misc, Video

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May 27
2009

D7: Twitter Considers Premium Service for SMBs and Pros

Conjuring up Twitter’s business model takes a lot of imagination. But founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s D conference in Carlsbad, CA, says the name of the game will be “enhanced capabilities” aimed at small business and professional users – something supported by a WSJ poll showing that 24 …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Technology

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