By Joel Burslem on Monday, December 4, 2006 Filed Under: InternetTags: Ask, Ask-City, CitySearch, del.icio.us, Google-Earth, Google-Local, Judys-Book, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, Real-Estate-Bookmarks, Real-Estate-Marketing, reputation-management, social-bookmarking, trulia, trulia.com, Windows-Live, Yahoo!-Local, Yelp.com
Ask City launches to take on Windows Live Local, Google Local and Yahoo Local. At first glance, it looks like a solid, competitive offering. I particularly like the ability to take a snapshot (bookmark) of your searches and save them for future use.
Ask City incorporates features from a number of third-party sources but, most [...]
By Joel Burslem on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Filed Under: MarketingTags: Advertising, Google-Local, Internet-Yellow-Pages, Local-Search, Marketing, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-advertising, Real-Estate-Marketing, Small-Business, Windows-Live, Yahoo!-Local, Yellow-Pages
Last week, my local Yellow Pages was dropped off at the end of my driveway. It was still there this morning, abandoned and soaking wet after a weekend of pounding rain.
I can’t even remember the last time I flipped open a phone book.
These days, my instinct is to go straight to the Internet to find [...]
By Joel Burslem on Friday, September 15, 2006 Filed Under: InternetTags: Backfence.com, Judys-Book, Kudzu.com, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-advertising, Real-Estate-Marketing, yahoo!, Yahoo!-Local, Yelp.com
I’m becoming increasingly intrigued by the number of “local” web sites that are being launched or revamped at the moment. Backfence.com, which launched its newest California site this week, is just another in a long line of similar sites in the same space: Kudzu.com, Judy’s Book (read my take on them here) and Yelp.com, to [...]