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Street Fight Daily: Lyft Raises $500 Million, Facebook’s M Suggests Local Services in Messenger

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Rival Lyft Raises $500 Million in Funding… The Public Debut of Facebook’s M is a Step Toward a Do-It-All AI Assistant… It’s Time for Google and Facebook to Freak Out About Amazon…

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LifeStream’s Personalized News Empowers Users, Protects Their Privacy

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The soon-to-launch news service from Graf Mouen and Bill Densmore plans to deliver highly personalized news and other information to consumers, while still maintaining the privacy they don’t currently have on the rest of the Web.

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Street Fight Daily: Facebook Challenges Slack, Deliveroo Launches Platform for Delivery-Only Kitchens

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Looks to Seize Control of the Workplace with Free Offering, Workplace Standard… Deliveroo Launches Platform for Restaurants to Open Delivery-Only Kitchens… Audience Measurement Struggles to Keep Up with Changing Viewing Behavior…

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History’s 3 Hints for the Future of Daily Deals

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The CEO of Tippr thinks Groupon’s success will legitimize the daily industry, encourage other players to stay in the game, and open an opportunity for a top deal commerce technology provider to take the market lead…

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Aggregation and Attribution: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

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Threats by large media companies over aggregation of their content and this month’s highly profiled spat at the Poynter Institute over attribution highlight the perils that publishers face when they rely on third party content.

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Street Fight Daily: 11.21.11

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups... Mobile Deals Set to Lure Shoppers Stuck in Line (NYT)… Living Social to Announce Funding (CNBC)… Pandora to Roll Out Geo-Targeted Political Ads (Wall Street Journal)…

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Foursquare, Groupon: Square Has You in Its Crosshairs

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Square is on a roll. The company is now handling $11 million in transactions each day. The majority of those transactions are coming from small businesses who love the simplicity of the system. Square is not the cheapest way to take credit cards but it is probably the fastest. And part of that roll is the announcement of customer loyalty programs wrapped into their existing POS platform…

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What Publishing History Tells Us About Sustainable Hyperlocal News

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The consistent market opportunity to provide relevant information at a community level dates back thousands of years, and it grows with each technological innovation. Yes, the tools have changed, but with each level of innovation a feasible business opportunity exists…

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Local Quotables: Gary Cowan, Patrick Kitano, Clara Shih and more…

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The best words about and around the hyperlocal industry. Don’t dismiss local newspapers’ brand equity with audiences, says Ron Blevins from hyperlocal agency Novus. Datasphere’s Gary Cowan notes that hyperlocal news only exists because of some great software platforms; Jed Kleckner from Delivery.com brings out the environmental benefits of hyperlocal; and the Journal Register’s John […]

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Street Fight Daily: 11.18.11

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

Yelp Files for $100 Million IPO (GigaOm)…
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal (PaidContent)…
Patch Traffic Rides High on Local Elections and Hurricanes — But can a Drive-by Audience Be Enough? (Nieman Lab)…

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As NYC Metros Cut Back, Hyperlocals Fill the News Hole

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Lights have been going out in newsrooms of New York City’s metro newspapers for more than a decade. But while traditional newsrooms darken, new hyperlocal sites in neighborhoods throughout the city are eagerly shining light on the city’s eight million stories…

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#SFS11 VIDEO: Fwix CEO Introduces ‘Location Search Optimization’

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At the Street Fight Summit last month, Fwix’s Darian Shirazi introduced the concept of “Location Search Optimization,” or LSO, a process for ensuring that your content is location-aware. Adding just a few meta-tags and other bits of data to your site can ensure that your content is found by location-based search engines…

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Living Social Releases Q3 Purchase Trends: Magazines Up, Burgers Down

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Missing summer? Livingsocial has released its Q3 Members Must-Have Study, revealing a few interesting trends in group-buying over the summer months. The daily deal giant has changed up the format of its trends report, favoring percent changed over total numbers of deals sold as showed in the Q2 report…

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