Bringing Location Targeting to Life: A Conversation with Placed
Last week, I had a long-overdue conversation with Placed CEO David Shim, in advance of the company's Placed Panels launch yesterday (more on that in a bit). This is part…
Mobile Local Data Galore: A Conversation with Telmetrics
Last week, xAd and Telmetrics released new data from a report administered by Nielsen that measures mobile local user behavior. Earlier today, we had the chance to catch up with…
Deeper Mobile Calls to Action: A Conversation with YP
Today at IAB's Mobile Marketplace Conference in NYC, I had the chance to catch up with YP's David Kurtz about a new ad unit the company announced. Kurtz has been…
Changing the Local Sales Conversation
The website development firm vSplash is playing in a fertile field with its Buzzboard product, a tool that enables local media salespeople to use the quality of small business digital…
Expanding Local Content’s Expiration Date: A Conversation With LocalMind
Since our first coverage of local Q&A app LocalMind, we recently had the chance to catch up with its founders about its new changes to the service. This comes a…
New Features and Funding: A Conversation With Fanminder
After some time passed since we last covered Fanminder, we caught up with CEO Paul Rosenfeld last week in advance of yesterday's announcement of new funding and its 2.0 release.…
Building Mobile Local Apps: A Conversation With Golden Gekko
Today I had the chance to catch up with London-based mobile app and website development outfit Golden Gekko. The firm has lots of top global brands as clients (Jack Daniels,…
Local Television Meets Mobile: The Conversation at MMA
Today at the MMA Forum in New York, a panel of local broadcasters broke down the opportunities at the crossroads of television and mobile. So far, the way this has…
Citizen Journalism’s Next Phase: A Conversation With Meporter
A few weeks ago, Peter Krasilovsky and I were pre-briefed by Meporter, a mobile local UGC news app that just launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. Led by 7Mainstreet founders Andy and…
More From Where 2.0: A Conversation With Dennis Crowley
Foursquare Cofounder Dennis Crowley spoke at Where 2.0 yesterday on the ongoing theme of innovating "beyond the check-in." Though lots of companies have taken this in directions such as checking in…