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Gothamist trashes NYT, Outside.in

Posted by Peter Verkooijen on June 18, 2009 under Events, Hyperlocal

Gelf Magazine last Thursday hosted a panel on hyperlocal media in Dumbo. Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin had some harsh truths for co-panelists Andy Newman (New York Times’ The Local) and Mark Josephson (Outside.in).

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Nokia connects real-world objects to digital information

Posted by Peter Verkooijen on May 3, 2009 under 2D Barcodes, Events, Mobile, Out-of-home

Nokia sales manager Matt Davies last month demonstrated the new Nokia Point & Find service at Mediapost’s Digital Out-of-Home Forum. Nokia isn’t the only company introducing this kind of mobile image recognition technology.

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Socialight ‘on the cusp of something big’

Posted by Peter Verkooijen on April 19, 2009 under Geo-targeting, Hyperlocal, LBS

Socialight was one of the early pioneers in hyperlocal media. ‘We are now on the cusp of something big,’ founder Dan Melinger says. ‘Everything is aligned.’

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‘Google Latitude will bring geoweb to my mum’

Posted by Peter Verkooijen on February 7, 2009 under Geo-targeting, LBS, Mobile

Building on the European success of his mobile marketing agency Mobile Dreams Factory Alberto Benbunan made the leap to New York.

‘All the location based social networks should trial their technology first in New York and then go anywhere else,’ says Benbunan.

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Yipit: ‘Tremendous opportunity in NY alone’

Posted by Peter Verkooijen on January 11, 2009 under Geo-targeting, Hyperlocal

James Moran compares Yipit to Mahalo. The hyperlocal search site has ambitions beyond furniture retailers in New York.

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Geoweb Report provides content and data on hyperlocal media/advertising, location based services, digital out-of-home and other aspects of the emerging geoweb industry.


Stay tuned for the Geoweb Summit and Geoweb Expo coming to New York Fall/Winter 2009!

Speakers

James Moran, Founder Yipit
Yipit is a deep local search company focused on New York City. Yipit collects and digitizes inventory data for local businesses, making product level search possible.

Dan Melinger, Founder Socialight
Socialight is a social information platform that incorporates media content provided by its users and provides means for users to communicate with each other without mediation.

Murat Aktihanoglu, Founder Centrl
Centrl is a location-based social-network that connects users from Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Ning, Bebo, Friendster and Orkut and lets them communicate from the web or from their iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Windows Mobile phones.

Alberto Benbunan, Founder Mobile Dreams Factory
Mobile Dreams Factory is one of the leading European mobile marketing and advertising agencies with operations in Spain, UK, Mexico, and United States.

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