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Tuesday, February 3. 2009
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Google Korea and Yahoo Korea Partner on Mapping Against Common "Enemies"
Korea's Daum (www.daum.net) is number 2 in search (left overs from Naver), but #1 in maps while Naver (www.naver.com) is #1 in search (75%). That does not sit well with Google and Yahoo.
So, the two have partnered to face the common enemies:
Under an agreement announced Tuesday, Google adds "video clips from YouTube (kr.youtube.com) on Yahoo's map (map.yahoo.co.kr), while Yahoo interconnects its local search service, Gugi (kr.gugi.yahoo.com), with Google's map (www.maps.google.co.kr)."
The sharing should begin later this month, with plans to extend it to the international version of Yahoo's Gugi services (global.gugi.yahoo.co.kr).
Korea has been one of the few rare markets where Google and Yahoo have struggled to stay relevant, with Naver controlling around 75 percent of the search market and Daum gobbling up the biggest of table scraps.
- Korea Times
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Wednesday, January 14. 2009
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When Networking Fails, Company Goes to Local Search...
Zoodango.com launched in 2006 to help business professionals network online. It didn't work out so it's refocussing as a local search site that will provide a hyperlocal, map-based online service to help consumers find local venues, businesses, and discounts. The site will launch in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, San Francisco, and Oakland. Funding comes from the Seattle Alliance of Angels as well as other angel investors.
I guess location is the new "fallback." The twist to this offering which sounds like so many others? "Zoodango’s new angle to finding restaurants, shops, and other businesses is the way you search—by location instead of search term, so those with subpar Google-fu still have a chance....Later this year, Zoodango will launch a premium coupon service, whereby users can pay to view good deals posted by other users, and an ad service through which local businesses can post their own coupons that will pop up if a user is searching in the businesses’ neighborhood."
- NorthWest Innovation
- xconomy
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Monday, January 12. 2009
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Consumer Electronics Show 2009: A Geo-Highlights Wrap Up
This long-ish post pull together the announcements from the consumer sphere that may relate to geotechnology, or that you shouldn’t miss.
Bottom line themes: more connectedness, convergence and location data. Big geo news? None really. Big device news? Palm’s Pre.
Continue reading "Consumer Electronics Show 2009: A Geo-Highlights Wrap Up"
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Tuesday, October 28. 2008
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Podcast: PNDs vs. Smartphones
deCarta announced its connected navigation platform last week. At the same time the expectations for portable navigation devices is looking dim as for-fee smartphone solutions for navigation appear to grow. What is the future for these devices and what about the connected car of the future? Our editors look at what the experts say and share their own predictions.
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Monday, September 29. 2008
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MetaCarta Unchained and Unbundled
Today, MetaCarta announced some new ways to access the "secret sauce" of their search engine technology and launched their Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP). The bottom line here is that they have "disconnected" some of the primary tools from the basic platform. In other words, you can separately license their API's but still have access to their geo-referencing engine. So, if you only want to use their geotagging or query parsings applications in conjunction with the underlying geo-referencing engine software developers will now be able to license them as they need them. In the past, the six modules (geotagging, query parsing, geosearch, location finder, save-search-notification, and document density) that comprised the MetaCarta platform were highly inter-related and did not work independently. The objective for MetaCarta is to enable more developers and clients who may want to geo-enable lots of location-based, Web 2.0 applications. MetaCarta is also transforming itself from not just a product company but to offering software as a service (SaaS). MetaCarta says more details will be out on that later this fall. What will be challenging for MetaCarta is offering their applications through a SaaS transaction model based on CPM, which may be appropriate for some news organizations who may want to develop a map indexing view like the one they have on their home page.
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Tuesday, June 3. 2008
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Biggest Day in Cell Phone Nav use? Day before Mother's Day
That's the word from Networks in Motion, which measured close to five million navigation requests. Besides directions people searched for florists and restaurants.
- TWICE
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