Maps —
Posted today on Local SEO Guide…
Just posted the following list of local search api’s on SearchEngineLand. I am going to be maintaining the list here and will be updating it from time to time.
Alcatel Lucent Open API Service
CityGrid (CitySearch)
Earthmine
Foursquare
GoWalla
Hoovers
Outside.in
Praized
TownMe
Trulia
Twitter/MixerLabs
Yahoo! Local
Yelp API
WhitePages.com
Zvents
The “local” web is all a-buzz today…
From its founder…
EveryBlock has been acquired by MSNBC.com
From the Local Onliner…
While the site takes a unique approach, it is poised to compete with other hyperlocal sites such as Outside.in, Topix.net, Placeblogger and Patch.com (acquired by AOL this summer for $10 million).
From TechCrunch…
EveryBlock currently covers only about 15 cities in [...]
Vermont’s Maponics continues to develop its wares…
Yesterday we announced the launch of the Maponics Neighborhood Classification Schema™, a new feature embedded within the Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries™ database. Read our news release here!
With this, we are thrilled to have expanded the depth of our neighborhood boundaries database and made it more powerful for companies looking to [...]
Defining physical boundaries of neighborhoods is a cornerstone of Front Porch Forum. So we’re interested in local boundaries generally. Vermont-based Maponics shares a good primer today about ZIP Codes and carrier routes (and they have neighborhood polygons too)…
The ZIP Code and carrier route coding system was specifically developed by the United States Postal Service (USPS) [...]
Mike Boland posted today about a conversation with Center’d’s CEO who…
positions the company as a deeper dive into events, which breaths more functionality into all of the nuances of planning local outings. With the tag line, people, places, plans, it also brings in some social features and local search functionality.
The value proposition lies in the [...]
Peter Krasilovsky covers a Boston website today, CitySquares. Many interesting points…
Boston-based CitySquares, which just celebrated its second anniversary, is getting about 70,000 unique visitors per month and now has a base of 700 advertisers, averaging $1,200 per year, reports CEO Ben Saren… Roughly a third of the existing advertiser base is in the downtown [...]
I’ve been reading several postings about Google’s first Local Symposium that they hosted at their HQ the other day. Here’s one.
Maps are important to neighborhood level online social networking. From an announcement received today…
Placebase, Inc., the makers of the Pushpin online mapping platform, today announced a partnership with Urban Mapping Inc. (UMI), the leading provider of enhanced of local interactive content. As part of this agreement, Urban Mapping’s neighborhood boundary database will be available on [...]