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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hyperlocal”

• Boundaries - a tool to visualise the shape of neighbourhoods

  
  foomandoonian — Authority: 142
  Boundaries uses Flickr geotagging data to draw local area boundaries on a map. It’s creator, Tom Taylor, says: Flickr understands that places are more than unique geographic identifiers; that they are mental models people use to identify with location. Moreover, they are fluid and opinionated, varying based on a ...
  21 hours ago

• Forecast: Geotargeted display ads to reach $1.9 billion

  
  BizReport — Authority: 578
  With the rise of consumer mobility, including the use of mobile handsets as well as the increased use of laptop computers, marketers are looking for a more direct way to reaching consumers. Many have found that geographically targeting display ads is one of the best ways and a new forecast from BIA/Kelsey indicates ...
  1 day ago

• Introducing Schools and Neighborhood Places for your listings; first beta

  
  Latest News — Authority: 105
  Everyone knows that real estate is all about “location, location, location”. myRealPage has just made your listings more about location by adding School and Neighborhood Place information to each and every listing that is shown on your website; either through your listings, office listings or in search results. ...
  1 day ago

• Pegasus News’ New Look Takes Our Advice

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 547
  I was too busy getting ready to jet off to the Land of Lincoln for Thanksgiving feasting all last week to notice, but Pegasus News executed its (much-anticipated?) relaunch just before I left town. I like the new look . It’s way easier on the eyes. I imagine there are all manner of kinks to be worked out still. ...
  1 day ago

• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Next Steps — What We Heard, What We Need

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 127
  At the conclusion of the day-long event, conference participants set the agenda for the continuing conversation:
  1 day ago

• Darlington hires town tweeter

  
  Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 125
  The local news of Darlington will now be tweeted by DarloBard, official twitterer in residence The Darlington Partnership has hired a teacher to be the north-eastern towns "Twitterer in residence", posting under the name TheDarloBard . Mike McTimoney, who is also an ICT network manager, will use Twitter to inform ...
  1 day ago

• Examiner.com’s Makeover: Deep Focus on Local/Vertical

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 464
  Does it make any sense to build a national chain of city sites by hiring local editors, one by one? The answer is a resolute “no” according to Examiner.com CEO Rick Blair, who said he’d been there and done that when he was a top exec at AOL Digital City. Blair came on board to run the Denver-based company in ...
  2 days ago

• Boston.com: No More Keyword Sales, But Search is Leverageable

  
  Kelsey Group Blogs — Authority: 545
  Newspapers haven’t done too well with local search, despite efforts to leverage their potential mix of human editors and algorithms. But Boston.com made more of an effort than many others, launching a local search/directory effort in 2006. As chronicled by Nieman Lab , that effort started out on a promising note ...
  2 days ago

• Walk & Ride by United Maps

  
  James Fee GIS Blog — Authority: 119
  United  Maps has a video up on YouTube s howcasing their upcoming Walk & Ride app for the iPhone . What I find interesting is that United Maps is rendering vectors directly on the iPhone. I’ve always though rasterizing vectors causes you to lose the power of vector datasets. All I can say is those lucky ...
  2 days ago

• Walk & Ride submitted to the Appstar Awards

  
  United Maps — Authority: 409
  " Walk & Ride " is an upcoming iPhone app that takes hyperlocal maps and onboard routing to the iPhone and iPod Touch . iPod Touch? Sure - this is the other 50% of the installed base and they should have access to sweet maps also. The short videodemos " Walk & Ride " core functionality and makes the case ...
  2 days ago

• How a shift in perspective salvaged Boston.com’s local search project

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 674
  In 2006, Boston.com launched a local search tool that was supposed to be a big part of the site’s future. The project made perfect sense on paper : Readers would get search results focused on eastern Massachusetts. Those results would mix the best of the machine and human worlds by using algorithms and ...
  2 days ago

• Pay wall day – Johnston Press begins charging for content

  
  Gordon's Republic — Authority: 497
  Today is a big day. Not only is it some huge online shopping day, but regional newspaper firm Johnston Press has switched on its online pay wall and is now charging readers to access content on some of its websites. In all six weekly newspapers are in the Johnston Press pilot news of which broke last week , but not ...
  2 days ago

• FAQ: How can news organisations compete at a hyperlocal level? (and other questions from AOP)

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 609
  These questions were submitted to me in advance of the next AOP meeting, on ‘Microlocal Media’ , and have been published on the AOP site . As usual, I’m republishing here as part of my FAQ series . Q. How can publishers compete with zero-cost base community developed and run sites? They can’t – and ...
  3 days ago

• Walk & Ride - Karten und Routing onboard (Hallo iPod Touch!)

  
  United Maps — Authority: 409
  Auf den letzten Metern zum Appstore: United Maps " Walk & Ride " Die erste Karte für die Hosentasche, die garantiert immer geht - offline, mit oder ohne GPS. Karten und Routing onboard – keine Onlineverbindung nötig. Für iPod Touch und iPhone. Die beste Karte für die Stadt: ...
  6 days ago

• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Ad Serving

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 127
  Representatives from Google, Adify, PaperG and Clickable discuss the basics of ad serving.
  1 week ago

• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Practicing Quality Journalism

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 127
  Jim Schachter (Editor, Digital Initiatives for The New York Times) leads a panel discussion exploring how local sites can establish themselves as credible news organizations in their communities.
  1 week ago

• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Beyond Text

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 127
  Local sites need to provide more than words on a screen. Michael Rosenblum (RosenblumTV.com) 
 and Sandeep Junnarkar (CUNY Graduate School of Journalism) talk about how to move beyond text.
  1 week ago

• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Setting Up Shop

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 127
  Ted Mann, Digital Development Director for Gannett New Jersey, leads a panel discussion on the tools and technology that can aid local bloggers.
  1 week ago

• Reflections on CUNY graduate school New Journalism Models Hyperlocal camp

  
  Christopher Wink — Authority: 119
  Highly localized news and its intersection with profitable, sustainable news is already starting to dominate conversations about the future of news in the United States.The numbers and business plans, relationships with each other and with legacy news organizations and who will be written into history for leading the ...
  1 week ago

• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Community Engagement and Marketing

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 127
  Mary Ann Giodano of the New York Times leads a panel that focuses on how local sites can grow an audience.
  1 week ago

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