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bblocal and Other City Guides, Travel Resource, & Local Info Tools for Mobile Users
I just learned about a new mobile service with info about various cities and maps bbLocal for Blackberry devices. Since I’m a…
Search U.S. Business Listings in Spanish and Chinese; French, Japanese, and German Coming Soon
A DMNews.com story: Site Offers U.S. Business Search in Foreign Languages, takes a look at a new service named Tyloon.com (beta), that…
New OSX Dashboard Widget for MSN Virtual Earth; Yahoo Maps Gets a Widget
It goes without saying that 2005 was the year of online maps and online aerial/satellite imagery. Here are a couple of new…
Saturday Night Live Skit Mentions MapQuest, Yahoo Maps and Google Maps
The final edition of Saturday Night Live of 2005 about 10 days ago included a hilarious “digital video short” by cast members…
Consumer Reports Looks at Travel Search Meta Engines in New Study
Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak,…
UK: Thomson Directories and Skype Announce Partnership
How about a large local directory provider and a large VoIP service partnering and tossing in a bit of the click to…
Local Search from Promising Upstarts
Local search is emerging as an important vertical service for Google, Yahoo and the other major players. But local search is still…
On Craigslist, Job Loses at Mainstream News Orgamizations, and Citizen Journalism
The San Franscisco Weekly reports in the article Craig$list.com, that the very popular classified ad site, its founder calls it an online…
“Hypermaps” of Boston From StrataVarious Using Google, MSN, and Yahoo Maps
The StrataVarious HyperMap Atlas comes from Boston based StrataVarious and are available in three mashup flavors: Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, and…
Mobissimo Launches One-Box Air Fare Search
Now doubt that travel search is one of the hottest vertical search markets out there. Today, Mobissimo, a travel meta search site…