Personalization Archives
Bizzy Hits Milestone, Releases Top Lists
ReachLocal recommendation site Bizzy announced that it has reached 100,000 “favorites.” Simultaneously the site released lists of top cities (usage) and favorite restaurants in those cities: These sorts of top lists are very valuable. This is how I see the “Like” data playing out in many local contexts also, assuming it doesn’t get polluted or [...]
Placecast Gains $5 Million in Series B Funding
1020 Placecast has raised $5 million in Series B funding “from a group of high-profile investors including Quatrex Capital and current investors Onset Ventures and Voyager Capital.” The company is going to grow its LBS mobile platform efforts accordingly. The press release says that the funds “will be used to accelerate progress on the company’s [...]
MapQuest Local Adds Twitter Feed
I got off the phone with Mark Law, product VP for MapQuest, a few minutes ago. He and I discussed the new additions to MapQuest local content, including Jobs from AOL Careers (via CareerBuilder) and a widget that offers a local Twitter feed: The site also recently added local events content from When (an AOL [...]
Mixed Outlook: What Should Yahoo! Do?
Here’s a lengthy post I put together over at SEL that goes through the earnings release and related announcements, including the 1,000 layoffs: Despite the hopes of many and rumors that Yahoo would post “strong” earnings, Q4 2007 results (.pdf) were mixed and net income was down from a year ago. In addition, CEO Jerry [...]
About Greg
Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's influence on offline consumer purchase behavior.
