Here’s a press release about SuperPages.com adding a “Reviewer of the Week” as a “step towards providing local content within a trusted social networking environment” along with local search.
However, if what you’re wanting is local content within a trusted social networking environment along with local search, you might also look at iBegin.com. They have just launched a Nashville.iBegin.com version to go with their other Ottawa, Toronto and Kalamazoo versions. (Seems like very logical roll-out strategy to me.)
Now, if I could just figure out why they named it I Be Gin.
Technorati Tags: search
WNBC threw a meet-up (they called it a summit) for local bloggers yesterday and 130 showed up. Jeff Jarvis appropriately credits Nashville’s WKRN for providing the play-book.
A walk down memory lane: Unlike the men in suits pictured attending the WNBC blogger event, the first WKRN meetup took place about 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning. The main draw was donuts and letting us harass the morning news crew while they were on air. Here’s my Flickr set of photos from the February 12, 2004, event. This famous “on-air” moment of the 13-year old still adorns his Facebook page. Here’s a group shot.
Technorati Tags: blogging, nashville
Ajaxy start pages and widgets have been around for so long (what, two years?) that some startups in the space have given up and sold out on eBay and others have merely ended up in an emerging Web 2.0 deadpool of tractionless startups. However, today, the maven of cutting-edget technology for the business class, the Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg, reviews the category as if it’s something new — and likes what he experiences. That’s great for people like me who work with business types and try to explain why RSS is an important tool. You see, RSS is one of the ways used to pump updated content into those “small modules” (apparently that’s what grownups call widgets) on those “highly personalized pages.”
Strangely, he ignores the one I (and a few others) use: the service found at the URL http://www.google.com/ig. The others he mentions are great, as well. I highly recommend to all I meet that they set up one of these pages Walt Mossberg reviews. After that, you can say you “use RSS” even if you don’t know what it means.
Technorati Tags: rss, web2.0
