The free WiFi offer comes in a partnership with the Chelsea Improvement Company, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication. Google has announced that it will start to offer free WiFi...
Jeremy Hunt was the top trending politician of 2012, and was supported in second place by London Mayor Boris Johnson. Google has released its overview of what people in the UK concerned themselves with during the past year, and naturally it is a...
The New York City Open Data Project kicked off in 2010 and enshrined into law by Mayor Bloomberg in 2012, the effort aims to make all sorts of NYC data available to the public via the Internet. Governments everywhere are opening up their data to...
Additionally, Google has broken out a section for NYC information, including an evacuation center map, the mayor's latest updates (via YouTube), mayor's alerts (via Twitter), and NotifyNYC alerts (also via Twitter).
Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch UK (and technology ambassador to London Mayor, Boris Johnson), did a sterling job of publishing his own coverage of the riots and also raising the visibility of important hashtags to follow.
Location-based deals can get stale after a while as regular patrons either unlock them, or give up coming back once they realize they don't have a chance at attaining the "mayor" deal (a deal only given to the mayor of a certain location).
This is the second year for Connected Marketing Week in San Francisco which is warmly welcomed back by Ed Lee, San Francisco's new mayor. The early bird discount for SES San Francisco closes today. If you haven't already registered for the leading...
Mike Bloomberg, the real Mayor of New York City, is also the foursquare mayor of the New York City Hall. Foursquare, the geolocation social network that started the whole "check-in" ball rolling, has hit 10 million users.
As a consumer, I wouldn't, and as a provider, would it really matter who the Mayor of your office is? Don't be surprised to hear that one of your friends has just become the Mayor of the hospital cafeteria or local health club.
Here, a clearer value proposition results from seven categories of specials: swarm, friends, flash, newbie, check-in, loyalty and mayor (each explained here). As South by Southwest bears down, we're seeing accelerated promotion of products that...
On Foursquare, you can be a mayor. In a move that seemed inevitable, Google Latitude announced the ability to check-in to places. Latitude is a 2-year-old service that has allowed people to share their location with others.
While New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come under criticism for the poor response and his lack of empathy, the Newark Mayor Cory Booker has become a national figure through his effective use of Twitter as a communication tool during this...
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Robert Steel, gave his first policy speech at Google's recently purchased New York City headquarters on Ninth Avenue. Search Engine Optimization Search is Search, Social is Social: Treat Them Separate by Frank...
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Robert Steel, gave his first policy speech on thursday at Google's recently purchased New York City headquarters on Ninth Avenue. Conductor is one of many companies building cutting edge software and...
LePage, mayor of Waterville, a town of about 15,000, had 182,499 votes, or 38 percent, with 87 percent of precincts reporting, while Cutler, a lawyer, had 176,055 votes, or 36.6 percent. If anyone tells you that one vote doesn't matter, go to Yahoo!
As we sat down, Sage whips out his phone and proceeds to check-in at FourSquare for he is the "mayor" of this fine Mexican restaurant. On Thursday I went to lunch with Sage Lewis at his favorite restaurant in Akron, Rancheros Taqueria.
Though "checking in" to become a "mayor" of a place seems childish, there are lots of opportunities there. "It's all about Google. You hear this a lot, especially in Europe. And its true. Google has amazingly high market shares in Europe.
Whole Foods Franchises, meanwhile, designate individual store managers to create check-in and mayor deals, redeemable for store items. TechCrunch's Social Currency Crunchup at Stanford University and Geo-Loco 2010 in San Francisco echoed one of the...
However, Dennis Schaal of Tnooz reports that Paterson issued a statement saying that he, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the bill's sponsor support an amendment to the bill which would mean the law would not go into effect until May 1...
Focusing on one mayor country and some additional countries: Make sure you have your main content on one ccTLD and use and gTLD (e.g.eu,) for the other countries/languages. You're only a mouse click away from websites all over the globe, allowing...
