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Reflections On Chrome OS From A Consumer Perspective

That positioning is very important. Google Product VP Sundar Pichai wouldn’t discuss the hardware partners involved with Chrome OS during that meeting but an earlier blog post indicates many of the usual suspects are already involved: “Acer, Adobe, ...

From GREG STERLING, Search Engine Land,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Hewlett-Packard,  Texas Instruments,  Qualcomm

Polluting the Social Graph

Many people have been thinking and working for some time to find a way to get friends and so-called influencers to advertise on behalf of companies or promote corporate messages to their followers or networks. The idea is to find a mechanism or system ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Google Appears To Be Testing New Local AdWords Presentation

Mike Blumenthal received a screenshot that seems to show a test of a new presentation of Google local/geotargeted AdWords. Mike suggests this may be an expression of AdWords local extensions: This is AdWords and not Local Listing Ads, but the ...

From GREG STERLING, Search Engine Land,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

‘What’s Happening?’: Twitter’s Geo-API ‘Huge’

Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.” The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online and in mobile) will unleash ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  TechCrunch

Google Moving Deeper into Real Estate

Google likes to do things that “scale,” which is why it has been difficult for the company to create vertical solutions of depth. Maps and local is an area that Google has invested hugely in but, by and large, the company has not built out compelling ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Yahoo Brings ‘Real Time’ Updates To News Shortcut

Yahoo has enhanced its News shortcut with real-time feeds and updates. The idea is to make the News Shortcut more current and more social with Twitter content in the form of videos, photos and tweets. The new shortcut has a horizontal tabbed interface ...

From GREG STERLING, Search Engine Land,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Interesting Data from Palore: SMB Demand

The numbers for the Plumbers vertical are different and there are some interesting comparisons and conclusions to be drawn. However, a “generic” inference here is that there’s some “pent up demand” for online marketing services: the difference between ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  19 Nov 2009

Vistaprint Now in the SEO Business

Vistaprint is now offering landing/profile pages to SMBs and submission to search engines and directory sites. From the release this morning: With no technical expertise required, Vistaprint’s Online Search Profiles take minutes to create and are ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Yahoo!,  Twitter Inc,  Marchex, Inc.,  Facebook Inc.

What’s New in Local-Mobile? Flook

Over at Internet2Go I’ve written briefly about Flook a new “location browser” for the iPhone. Not augmented reality it uses the camera and geotagging to enable users to create “cards” that discuss and describe places and things of interest at specific ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  19 Nov 2009

AOL Selling MapQuest?

Kara Swisher is reporting that MapQuest is one of the AOL “assets” potentially for sale. I’ve argued in the past that MapQuest is one of AOL’s great local assets, if not the single most important one. However, perhaps the feeling at AOL is “game over” ...

From GREG STERLING, Screenwerk,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: America Online,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Kara Swisher

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