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Local 1.0

by Ben Saren on Sep Wed, 2008 in CitySquares, Local Search, New Media and Web 2.0

I believe that this local search thing is quite early, and to keep up with the Jones’ I’ve started to refer to it as Local 1.0. Hear me out here, because I’m diving deep.
Web 1.0 was a passive web, about adoption and about moving to an interconnected digital medium, and Web 2.0 is very much [...]

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Citysearch Acquires Insider Pages

by Ben Saren on Mar Thu, 2007 in Local Search

Well first, I’m just glad I didn’t have to watch this get drawn out. Some M&A rumors have a way of getting way out of control. Theories, napkin calculations, he said-she said. But about two weeks ago the rumor began, and here we are with the news that Citysearch has acquired Insider Pages for an [...]

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Citysquares.com: Part 1

Citysquares.com: Part 1

by Ben Saren on Feb Tue, 2007 in CitySquares, Entrepreneurship, Local Search, Locally Owned

Today I had a meeting with the founders of Spot Story, Aron and Matthew. I briefly met them at WebInno last week. It was at the end of the evening and the room was clearing out, they were still fielding questions and performing demos. We spoke for a couple minutes, exchanged business cards and promised [...]

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Fond memories of Sidewalk.com

by Ben Saren on Jan Wed, 2007 in CitySquares, Entrepreneurship, Local Search

John Kelsey has a nice piece on The Kelsey Group blog about Sidewalk.com, and Steve Ballmer’s regrets of dumping it. I have to admit that it’s nice to finally see some acknowledgment by Microsoft that this was a mistake. Because that’s ultimately what it is. Sidewalk.com was a fantastic site back in the day. In [...]

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Local Merchants: Do they get it?

by Ben Saren on Dec Fri, 2006 in CitySquares, Local Search, Locally Owned

That’s really the billion dollar question isn’t it? Local search was recently labeled by a friend of mine as “The Holy Grail of the Internet.” I think that might be stretching it a bit, but for the sake of argument, let’s call it The Promised Land. After all, so many are trying to get [...]

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