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Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 5)
Conclusion IAC has leadership positions in the Personals, and Local / Ticketing verticals. Through Expedia, it also has a great position in Travel. However, there are concerns with HSN Network, Lending Tree and Real Estate segments, though they are strong brands with competitive positioning. IAC holds more than 60 online properties and someone could easily
It’s About Place (Part 7)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author Think about where you are right now… How would you describe your location? Near Boston. In the Board Room at Sequoia Capital. At Rockefeller Center. On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, near Hollywood & Vine. In the Glamour Shots store, on level two, within Mall of America. In Casino Niagra,
It’s About Place (Part 6)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author Maps, and their cousins satellite images, are getting a lot of attention these days. In the past past two weeks there have been some interesting articles in Wired, New York Times and The Province, a daily newspaper in British Columbia, Canada (that covered the GeoWeb Conference last week, in Vancouver,
Local Search Bonanza Stirs Patent Investigation
Last year in Feb the Kelsey Group made the eye-catching forecast that the global online local search market is set to explode from $3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010. This put the growth rate at a handsome 30.4% over the next 4-5 years. Interestingly, the same report was emphatic that the classified
It’s About Place (Part 5)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author I have been following with fascination (and taking many calls from research analysts), regarding the public market buzz around Local.com (NASDAQ: LOCM). This firestorm was triggered by John Gilliam’s recent blog on SeekingAlpha. While I personally think John’s assessment of this patent is overzealous (he did disclose he was long
It’s About Place (Part 4)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author I started this series on Local Search by discussing the current state of the technologies, content, and user experience. For Local Search to become a significant business, like paid keyword search, much needs to change. Google dominates the business of keyword search because they started with a great search service…
It’s About Place (Part 3)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author Location is fundamental to our personal and business lives – yet it is a concept that is easily and often misunderstood. The Oxford Dictionary defines this word as “the point or extent of space that is occupied by a person, place or thing”. So a place is not a location
It’s About Place (Part 2)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author In a previous post, I suggested that integration of search and location technologies was a difficult problem, that has not been solved. To provide some context for this series on local search, I want to dig into the technologies a little more. Location technology emerged out of the computer graphics
