Google is doing a lot.. so this post is nothing new but it seems that Google is putting more effort into local search. Some examples I ran into..
Ads for their Business Center..
I haven’t found localized versions of those ads.. but probably they exist already.
New ways of promoting your business
They recently introduced new ad units for […]
Yahoo’s Fire Eagle was the first step towards letting websites know where you are.. but slowly this is getting mainstream. FireFox 3.5 has this build-in called Location-Based Browsing.
“Firefox gathers information about nearby wireless access points and your computer’s IP address. Then Firefox sends this information to the one and only default geolocation service provider, all […]
When will the web-browser know where we are? Hopefully sometime soon.. probably not.
FireEagle (by Yahoo) is a nice first step. Have different applications tell FireEagle where you are and have web-apps request your location (with different accuracies) from FireEagle. Nice.. but not really straight forward and end-user friendly. End-users will have to have a FireEagle […]
Having an Iphone I often use the superb Google Maps. And, I believe as of version 1.1.3 of the Iphone firmware, you can press the ‘My location’ button and you find where you are. No GPS. Only cell tower data. And.. it is scaringly accurate.
Now you (at least I) figure.. how do they do it? […]
Finally there is a real (and official) way that makes your contacts portable: the Google Contact API. Before today all web applications that needed user’s email addresses needed to scrape a user’s email service (like Hotmail, Gmail, etc).
Of course the Plaxo (and our own Skipid) Widget made it easier for developers to create contacts of […]
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