Wednesday, July 1. 2009

Citysearch wants you to know...

This from Mike Francesconi at Citysearch:

Citysearch and IAC are on the hunt for a killer, local mobile/web application for our site Sidewalk.com. We recently announced the launch of our “right here, right now” contest to find a brilliant idea for a local mobile/web app that focuses on making life easiern.

The creator of the winning application will win a $10,000 grand prize, and possibly, the opportunity to develop and manage a new business venture with up to $1 million dollars in funding and receive an equity stake in the new Sidewalk.com venture, and access to the Citysearch publisher network allowing them to instantly monetize traffic.

Check out all the details on the contest at sidewalk.com and follow our updates at twitter.com/sidewalkdotcom

EveryTrail Moves from B2C to B2B

GPS Business News has an interview with joost Schreve, the CEO of GlobalMotion, the company behind the social/location/travel/sharing site. (One of my students evaluated it, which is how I ran into it.) While B2C is growing, the real money seems to be in licensing the platform to other businesses including GlobalStar, the company behind the SPOT locator and REI. I suspect many other LBS companies will need to "adjust" their business models.

Wired on LBS

One piece by Clive Thompson at Wired looks at the LBS market in the context of the oxymoron that the Web means location doesn't matter, but that location-knowing devices means it does. Mentioned: Loopt, Socialight, Skyhook. Next big thing, per the article, "tagging."