Posted in HyperAge, Citizen Journalism, Hyperlocal on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
What you think hyperlocal is and why you think the future of it will be so important.
Hyperlocal is essentially the up close study of how society and culture intermingle and connect. It determines how cultures both local, regional, national and global emerge, and it also tracks how culture and society moves.
First off I […]
Posted in Business, Hyperlocal on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Netflix is sitting on a potential hyperlocal gold mine of an opportunity.
To begin my wife and I sat down for an evening together, popped in the Netflix DVD and low and behold an ad for Gaiam appeared. Maybe Gaiam actually produced the movie, but what suddenly occurred to me was that this might as well […]
Posted in Business, Tools, HyperAge, Hyperlocal on Apr 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
What a concept!!!
There are enough restaurant reviews in here to topple any high and mighty bay area restaurant critic: Power to citizen journalism and reality reviews!
Imagine if Yelp decided to create a weekly PRINT restaurant / business review guide.
They would start in the Bay Area; the mecca of diversity and personality for the US […]
Posted in Business, Hyperlocal on Apr 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Don’t Mix Business with Pleasure!
If you take this advice when going hyperlocal you are bound to fail and here is why.
Take for example Google Local.
Why isn’t it better?
Google Local total lacks the social network engine that could make it totally awesome so essentially all it is DATA with feedback. It needs a little […]