AskCity : New Local Offering from IAC
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Barry Diller and IAC are going to launch something called &#8220;AskCity&#8221; next week, which will be a consolidated local offering under the Ask brand: The new Web-based city guides, due out on December 4, will be followed later in December by a redesign of IAC&#8217;s Ask.com search service, a small but fast-growing rival to Google Inc. [...]
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WE WANT to hear what you have to say about what's on in the region.   We want to hear your views on movies, restaurants CDs, DVDs, computer games or have you been to a gig or can recommend a great day/night out somewhere? If so, let us know. We will publish as many as we can.
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Q: I'm thinking about offering wireless Internet access at my restaurant, but I'm not exactly a technical person. So where do I start?  A: Good move, especially if you're competing with big-name coffee chains and sandwich shops.
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Last summer, I wrote about local Ruby events and the RubyConf*MI event that was (at that time) just announced.  Since then, I've taken some time to write about regional conferences, and to encourage people to check out the Ruby Central grant program.
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Center for Digital Government study looks at which regions are doing the most to enhance local technology. The list might surprise you.
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Yahoo Local Updates With Tagging &#038; Photos Yahoo! Local today made some updates to its local search &#038; mapping offering with new &#8220;Collections&#8221; and &#8220;My Local Dashboard&#8221; features that enable its users to save, organize and discover information the way that they choose. The Flickrization of Yahoo is now expanding past normal search, MyWeb and niche [...]
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 3--A WEB OF WEB PROPERTIES   IAC owns and operates 65 brands, and counting. They include:   Ask.com| A search engine acquired by IAC in July 2005. Competes with Google, Yahoo and MSN.
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The company's new software might let private information go public. Also: A new website pays you to help your friends buy products  & hellip;. LAN operators start to gear up  & hellip;. and more.
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Never a dull moment in local these days as I learn of new sites almost daily. I spoke this morning with Ben Saren, CEO of Boston-based Citysquares, another &#8220;hyperlocal&#8221; site focused on building out neighborhood listings and community. Right now the site only covers the Boston area but Saren envisions expansion and scaling.  We discussed all [...]
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Rojo  is trying to hire a few Engineers .  Rojo is an amazing company to work for.  We're working with some really impressive technologies and doing some really cool work.  If you're interested in RSS/Atom, Social Networking, Open Source, Java, Linux, etc then I'd highly recommend that you come and work with us.  If you suggest someone to Rojo, and we hire them, we'll give you a free iPod. At the very minimum its a nice gesture for your help.  Also if you want a free invite to Rojo please let me know.  We'd love to have more feedback.
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India's Kerala state to build a technology-friendly city for global investors.  Also: Intel continues its expansion in the Indian city Bangalore & hellip;. Sirius Satellite scores a hard-charging CEO & hellip;. and more.
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By Susan Erler, The Times, Munster, Ind.  Mar. 8--MICHIGAN CITY -- The city hopes to lure more business to downtown  by setting up free high-speed Internet access in the Franklin Street corridor.
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Ask.com is introducing AskCity, a service that integrates maps with information about local businesses, restaurants, listings and reviews.
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Web 2.0 is moving into your neighborhood, as more companies vie to deliver local content to your cellphone
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Web 2.0 moves into your neighborhood as firms vie to deliver local content to your cell phone
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Media & professional: Offline software launches fresh challenge to Seattle.
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(InfoWorld) - Almost three months afterÂ a major overhaul of Ask.com's local search engine, IAC/InterActiveCorp is again moving to improve its offerings in this popular search segment by acquiring Insider Pages, a city guide with hundreds of thousands of user reviews of local businesses. Insider Pages, founded in 2004 and with more than 600,000 merchant reviews and 2 million monthly unique users, will become part of Citysearch, a similar city guide that, like Ask.com, is owned by IAC. Between the two, Citysearch and Insider Pages have more than 1 million reviews as well as listings of local businesses in more than 500 categories and in every U.S. Zip Code, IAC announced Thursday. For now, Insider Pages will continue operating its own site, and Citysearch will incorporate Insider Pages material that it considers complementary to its guide, a Citysearch official said. A similar evaluation process regarding Insider Pages material will take place for Ask.com's AskCity local search engine. In other words, neither Citysearch, which has about 13 million unique users per month, nor AskCity will automatically ingest all of Insider Pages' content, said Dinesh Moorjani, Citysearch's vice president of strategy and corporate development. After its overhaul in December, AskCity gained access to material from a variety of IAC-owned properties, including Citysearch. Local search has become a highly popular search segment for both advertisers and end-users. Typically, local search engines contain maps, offer driving directions, provide business listings and reviews, give traffic information, and display information about events. Advertising revenue in local search is expected to grow from $3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010, according to The Kelsey Group. In July of last year, 63 percent of U.S. Internet users, or about 109 million people at the time, conducted a local search, up 45 percent compared with July 2005, according to comScore Networks. Google led with 29.8 percent of queries, closely followed by Yahoo with 29.2 percent. Ask.com ranked in seventh place with 2.7 percent of queries. IAC didn't disclose the financial details of the Insider Pages acquisition, which has already closed. Â