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Street Fight Daily: Walmart Leverages Brick-and-Mortar to Win Online, Local Search Ranking Factors Rundown

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Walmart to Discount Some Online Orders When Picked Up At the Store… Just Released: 2017 Local Searching Ranking Factors Survey Results… Uber’s Head of Communications, Rachel Whetstone, is Leaving…

How Samsung’s Galaxy S8 Could Change Local Marketing

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The new smartphone promises increased opportunities to bring local marketers closer to consumers with a new “intelligent interface.” Bixby, the phone’s voice assistant, has “contextually aware” capabilities that can help personalize location, retail and other user experiences.

CloudSponge: Soaking Up Your Contacts to Connect You Anywhere

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The startup is touting tremendous success for at least one company using their service: local (under the radar) giant, Nextdoor, has seen a significant uptick in growth since deploying CloudSponge’s technology. How? We talked with Jay Gibb, the company’s CEO, to find out.

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Street Fight Daily: 12.05.11

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Living Social Beta Tests Premium Membership Program (Local Onliner)

Walmart Had a Pretty Good Foursquare Black Friday (Ad Age)

Yipit Secretly Tests Its New Foursquare Integration (TheNext Web)

Can Pandora Do Hyperlocal Ad Sales?

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To do hyperlocal, Pandora uses the IP address of the device and maps it back to a location. This is standard geotargeting and other local advertising plays are tapping into the same idea. But the question is whether Pandora can push through with this strategy successfully by priming the sales pump with a local sales force…

Local Quotables: Seth Priebatsch, Chris Dixon, Dan Street and more…

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Chris Dixon sends kudos to Foursquare’s latest release; Seth Priebatsch gets excited about the evolution of money as it moves further online; Steve Buttry gets an endorsement; Josh Fenton talks hyperlocal publishing success; and Dan Street describes the evolution of local as “not a search problem.”

Street Fight Daily: 12.02.11

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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)

NimbleCommerce CEO: Helping Online Publishers Leverage Deals

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Prashant Nedungadi, the company’s founder, talks about where he sees the deals space heading, what local merchants should be thinking about as they approach online marketing, and what hyperlocal sites can do with daily deals.

Battle in Seattle: ‘Indie’ West Seattle Blog vs. Corporate KOMO

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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…

Street Fight Daily: 12.01.11

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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’

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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

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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

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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)