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Scoop St.’s New Take on Neighborhood ‘Food Crawls’

Local food festivals (“Taste of Seattle,” “Taste of Hillcrest,” et al) are a great way to taste samples from many restaurants at one time. Usually, they require a single ticket, with proceeds often going to charity. A more recent phenomenon…

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Begun, the Mobile Payment Wars Have

A new consortium of mobile carriers has announced it will launch a mobile payments platform known as ISIS. With the tagline "Wallet ... meet Phone," it plans to launch in the next 18 months (really?). The press release and Web…

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Shopkick Extends Retail Reach With Target Deal

A few weeks ago, we wrote about a briefing with Shopkick's product director Evan Tana. The upcoming ILM:10 conference speaker explained the strategy to build a shopping utility around check-ins and customer engagement for retail partners like Best Buy. Another thing…

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Google Hotpot: The Mobile Angle

Over on our Local Media blog, we cover Google's new "Hotpot" product. It essentially adds a social layer to local search, allowing users to connect to friends (Gmail contacts). Merchant ratings from you and your friends then govern personalized recommendations in…

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CityGrid Extends Hyperlocal Reach via Outside.in

CityGrid Media (formerly Citysearch) will extend its paid base of 800,000 advertisers across thousands of neighborhood news pages, courtesy of a display advertising deal with Outside.in. The two companies have been quietly conducting pilot tests of custom ads in “a…

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Yellow Pages Industry Counterpunches Seattle

During the run up to passage of the strict Yellow Pages opt-in ordinance in Seattle last month, the Yellow Pages industry made it clear that it felt it had a strong argument that the legislation was unconstitutional. Yesterday the industry followed through on…

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ILM Mobile SuperForum Slated and Ready

We've been busy putting together a solid lineup of speakers at our upcoming Interactive Local Media conference (Dec 7-9). Spotlighted will be two SuperForums on hot topics in the local media space: Mobile, and Daily Deals/Group buying. The SuperForum format,…

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Cool Item of the Day: Geo-tweet Map

From the Friday cool stuff dept., the folks at prolific design house Frog Design have built a real time heat map of geotagged tweet activity across the globe. Twitter was first to geotag "status" but hasn't done a lot with…

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Axel Springer, India Today Team Up on Auto Classifieds in India

India’s auto classifieds marketplace is heating up, as the country’s burgeoning middle class becomes more auto dependent. In August 2009, MotorExchange acquired CarTradeIndia.com, apparently leading to investment in MotorExchange by Canaan Partners. Now, Axel Springer, the German media company, and…

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Valpak Extends to Windows Phone 7

Related to the previous post on battles waging over smartphone OS market share, coupon heavyweight Valpak announced it's joining the Windows Phone ecosystem with a dedicated native app. The free app, available now in the Windows Phone Marketplace, will offer…

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