Street Fight Daily: 12.02.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Zaarly App Aims to Deliver Customers to Small Businesses (Mashable)…
Groupon’s Exaggerated Deals Will Be Probed By UK Government (PaidContent)…
Mobile Commerce To Hit $6.7B In 2011 (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.01.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups... New Foursquare Button Lets You Collect and Use Reviews Later (Mashable)…
As Stock Tumbles, Groupon Q4 Off to a Stellar Start (Yipit Blog)…
Zaarly, TaskRabbit and the Rise of the Convenience Economy (BetaBeat)…
Using Images to Spur Location-Based ‘Discovery’
Trover’s co-founder and CEO, Jason Karas, likens the photo-sharing location-based service to people “leaving breadcrumbs” for one another — places to discover nearby, with notes to give context. Street Fight recently caught up with Karas to talk about how the app works, why Trover is different from other photo-sharing sites, and how the “discovery” space is evolving…
How to Run Hyperlocals that Make Money — An Email Mini-Debate
Recently the good folks at the American Press Institute asked if I’d help lead a discussion about “Strategies for Sustainable Hyperlocal Business Models.” So I did what I do best: ask other folks what they think. Here are some thoughts on the matter from Rick Blair, ex-CEO of Examiner.com, GoLocal24 co-founder Josh Fenton, Scot Brodbeck from ARL Now, Street Fight columnist Tom Grubisich and Street Fight CEO Laura Rich…
Street Fight Daily: 11.30.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Yelp’s IPO May End Up Yelping (CNN/Money)…
The Big Merchant Survey (Daily Deal Media)…
On Zaarly, You Can (Usually) Get What You Want (Entrepreneur)…
Foursquare Partners With Scoutmob to Syndicate Offers
This morning, deals site ScoutMob and location-based social network Foursquare have announced a partnership that will see the Atlanta-based company’s local deals distributed across Foursquare’s platform. 500 deals from Scoutmob’s thirteen markets will join offers from a handful of other sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Gilt City that are already on Foursquare…
Street Fight Daily: 11.29.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.…
LocalVox Launches Full-Service Marketing Solution To Help Local Merchants Target Their Customers (TechCrunch)…
Groupon Stock Now Half Off (AllThingsD)…
How Groupon and Livingsocial Impact Businesses and Users (Washingtonian)…
Loku CEO: Leveraging Data to Make Sense of Hyperlocal Search
In 2010, private equity manager-turned-entrepreneur Dan Street launched a two-year quest to create a search engine capable of synthesizing and analyzing the vast landscape of hyperlocal information. The result was Loku, a hyperlocal information hub that draws on big data tools to make sense of local search through dynamic analysis and a clean presentation of hyperlocal content…
The Legal Battle Brewing Over LBS and Privacy
Anxiety is rising over the use of location-based services as tools for advertising to consumers. Surveys suggest that consumers see value in LBS, but they are concerned about their privacy. This means LBS providers must walk a tightrope in providing both privacy options and value to consumers…
Street Fight Daily: 11.28.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
SCVNGR is Building Local Mobile Payments Groundswell With LevelUp (ReadWriteWeb)…
Study: 56% of People Still Dig Daily Deals (ReadWriteWeb)…
LocalUncle Says ‘Screw Google’ — Ask Humans Instead (TheNextWeb)…
Patch, Others Seek Holiday Cheer Updating Tried and True Guides, Deals
Holidays are a sparkling time to test out the effectiveness of one’s local penetration. And it seems Patch is going all in. I asked Mark Josephson, SVP of revenue, to talk about what Patch is pitching for the holiday (among other obvious questions). Turns out the network of local sites has a Ye Olde Fashioned Gift Guide of its own…
Street Fight Daily: 11.23.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.…
Gilt Groupe Is Talking IPO (GigaOm)…
Fondu Is Foursquare For Foodies (TechCrunch)…
Location-Based Revenues in Europe Will Double by 2016 (GoMo News)…
Big Picture Stories Make Hyperlocals More Valuable
Hyperlocals do a great job at finding and generating news. But are enough of them putting government performance to the test? Given the amount of data available to measure performance, these stories should be resonating louder and more insistently than ever in this deep, stubborn recession…
Street Fight Daily: 11.22.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups... 102,000 Cupcakes! Small Bakery Burned by Groupon (MSNBC)…
Knight-Backed Local News Site ‘Brooklyn Bureau’ Launches (PaidContent)…
Google backtracks a bit on charging for its Maps API (Nieman Lab)…
DNAinfo Expands — As Does NYC’s Rep as Hyperlocal Incubator
With its expansion, DNAinfo joins a new class of hyperlocal companies — led by tech startups like Foursquare — that were spawned in New York City and now are in the process of scaling their products into other markets. New York (and Manhattan in particular) has become a hotbed of hyperlocal activity in recent years…
Battle in Seattle: ‘Indie’ West Seattle Blog vs. Corporate KOMO
West Seattle has two major hyperlocal news sites, and they represent 180-degree-opposed forces in online community news: independent sites that entrepreneurs fund from their wallets, and big-media-financed sites that draw on millions of dollars from corporate treasuries…