Greg Sterling

Although spotted last week, SuperPages put out a press release announcing changes and improvements on the site. Here’s a list of the enhancements from the press release . . . City-Specific Skylines – City-specific skylines for 25 of the top searched cities, with more skylines to be added; Two-field Search Box – Simplified two-field search …

Today, IAC’s Citysearch becomes the first major local search consumer destination to add video on any kind of scale (note the qualifiers). In addition to video, produced by TurnHere and currently available on the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles sites, the press release explains other changes and upgrades. The major change, outside of …

Coming off the EconSM show last weekin LA, I’ve got social media on the brain. But if the user community is now a “perpetual focus group,” why not take that seriously? AOL’s newly exposed homepage design has garnered criticism for being too much like Yahoo!’s. I’m sure there was a costly redesign process that may …

Greg Sterling

The pace of development of new mapping mashups (mostly using Google Maps) is almost impossible to follow. But it’s one of the most interesting stories going on just below the general technology news radar screen. A great place to keep track of all this is the blog Google Maps Mania, which faithfully chronicles all these …