Archive for May, 2008
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I’ve long believed that neighborhoods represent a key ingredient in how local search and media evolves. Back around 1995, Brad Inman held a brainstorming retreat for online real estate people at his redwood forest home. I still remember Brad’s passion about the importance of neighborhoods in the fabric of online real estate - and community in general; as a former real estate newspaper writer Brad used to love doing neighborhood profiles. While the concept has stuck with me, the content gap made
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Here are last week’s highlights from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Merrill Brown and the Internet: Still the Visionary “Extraordinary change means extraordinary opportunity,” Merrill Brown, founder and principal of MMB Media, told the audience at last month’s Drilling Down on Local conference. Few people are more knowledgeable about the impact of new technologies on society than Brown. Before he was a founder of RealOne, before he was the f
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Yelp has added video/rich media ads to its site. The one immediately below is for American Express/Tribeca Film Festival. This makes me think we’ll probably see video ads on profile pages soon. The slide show that is shown in the upper left of the profile page will probably be replaced by video relatively soon. For “national” or brand advertisers the video ad on the homepage is a geotargeted and demographic targeting play.
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Barron’s reports on a Reuters article this morning about a rumor that Microsoft might be interested in Yell. What it means: Google was rumored to be buying Yell all of last year but I did not think there was a strong possibility of that happening. I think that Microsoft rumor makes more sense as Microsoft has clearly invested massively in the local search space in the last 12 months through tech acquisitions (notably Fast and TellMe). This might be the way to try to corner the local search mar
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Seattle-based Pelago, a LBS company specializing in social networking and local discovery, has announced today it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. This round is intended to expand the activities of the company in Europe and Asia. Two of the company's new investors are indeed well-positioned to help with this international move -Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile unit and Reliance Technology Ventures of India, a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group. Other
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Reliance Technlogy Ventures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital (owned by ADAG) has invested in a US Based Social Networking Site – Whrrl.com. I just checked out Whrrl.com and it’s basically a network that enables users to combine Location Based Services along with some social networking features. So a user can basically keep updating his or her status through various gateways. A local Dopplr (so to speak). Along with that there are the standard location rating features.
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Reliance Technlogy Ventures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital (owned by ADAG) has invested in a US Based Social Networking Site – Whrrl.com. I just checked out Whrrl.com and it’s basically a network that enables users to combine Location Based Services along with some social networking features. So a user can basically keep updating his or her status through various gateways. A local Dopplr (so to speak). Along with that there are the standard location rating features. So
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BEST & BRIGHTEST: The Carnival Of Mobilists #124 At Symbiano-Tek; Transcoding Controversy Rages, Web Aggregators To Watch Out For, LBS Made Simple & More Author: Peggy Anne Salz Back after the three-day weekend break and catching up on the CoM posts - which always make for worthwhile reading. This last week the CoM was hosted by Tarek El Ghazali over at Symbiano-Tek. (If you are getting a sea of black lines running through this post, then you can also check it out at an alternative page Tarek
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Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd (RTVL), the corporate venture capital arm of the Reliance ADA Group, has co-invested along with other global venture funds in a US-based mobile- and web-based social networking company Pelago Inc. The amount of investment is undisclosed. The other investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (through its new iPod applications focused fund of $100 million), T-Ventures (the venture arm of T-Mobile), DAG Ventures, Trilogy Equity Partners and Bezos Expedition
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Google has made some key senior management appointments for its India operations. Sridhar Seshadri has been appointed Business Head-Financial Services, Parminder Singh is Business Head-Technology, while Narasimha Jayakumar has been brought in as Business Head-Travel & Local for its advertising and monetisation business. According to Google India, the appointment of Sridhar Seshadri, Parminder Singh and Narasimha Jayakumar is part of its strategy to go deep in the key sectors and deliv
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