Street Fight Daily: Urbantag Acquired, OpenTable Optimizes Mobile
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Social Network Tagged’s Fifth Acquisition: Location-Based Mobile Discovery App Urbantag (TechCrunch)… OpenTable Helping Restaurants to Lift Last-Minute Reservations on the Phone(AllThingsD)… A Waze Ahead of Apple in Map Race (AdWeek)…
Street Fight Daily: Pandora’s Local Push, Foursquare’s Future
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce and technology...
Pandora Courts Local Advertisers, by Offering Well-Defined Listeners (New York Times)…
Facebook Buys Customer Loyalty App Tagtile, Continues Focus on Mobile (GigaOm)…
Foursquare May Not Be Toast Yet, But It’s Browning At The Edges (Business Insider)…
#SFS11 Company Profile: Urbantag
The local review and recommendation space is in need of some tidying up. User-generated reviews on sites like Yelp fail to incorporate taste, and often are littered with disingenuous reviews created by the merchants themselves. Meanwhile, recommendation engines like Bizzy and Foursquare Explore require users to share their location on a geo-social network — an activity that remains uncommon in the general public. Urbantag wants to help solve the problem…