http://www.darbysieben.com Sharing my experiences - what works, what doesn't, trends and news Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:23:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last week in Canada has been one heck of a political ride with the economic update leading to a coalition opposition looking to take power from the reigning Conservative government. If you want to read about the full week of details, check out The Globe and Mails Political section. Got ... http://www.darbysieben.com/yellow_pages/yellowpagesca/342/harper-dion-layton-duceppe-and-may-a-directories-view-of-canadas-political-leaders/ Over the past two years I have attended all the Kelsey Conferences, for those of you know familiar they conferences focus on the directional, vertical and local search markets in print and online. One common theme that has grown in popularity over the past 24-months is the emergence of video ... http://www.darbysieben.com/local-search-tips/322/local-business-and-youtube-canadian-success-stories/ Big numbers, seems the entire world wants to see them, even those in the local advertiser space in Canada. Big numbers are good, but what about results and do these always correspond? This article will take a look at a couple of older web posts and some updated data from ... http://www.darbysieben.com/local-internet-strategies/301/why-really-smart-advertisers-look-beyond-the-big-shiny-numbers/ As the iPhone becomes more and more popular in Canada I decided to take a look at 4 local web products, YellowPages.ca, 411.ca, Canpages.ca, and Google Maps. I selected these as they all have iPhone compatible versions of their websites. Google Maps is a standard icon on the iPhone by ... http://www.darbysieben.com/local-internet-strategies/282/local-search-in-canada-using-the-apple-iphone-a-visual-comparision/ Ever wonder what are the most common names and Canada and how many people are listed in the White Pages in Canada who match those surnames. I figure there are at least a few of you who would be interested in this information, so here it is. This list of ... http://www.darbysieben.com/yellow_pages/canada411ca/236/canadas-most-common-surnames-dissected/ I have decided to start a new feature called Local Search Tip. Every other Sunday, I will post another way to get access to quality Canadian content. Most of these posts will be focused on different ways to retrieve Canadian business and person data, however, I will also profile ways ... http://www.darbysieben.com/sms/217/local-search-tip-1-411411-sms-sushi-by-the-cn-tower-in-toronto/ Do you like to share your opinion? If so - launched today is the $100 a day free gas card giveaway from the YellowPages.ca Facebook Application - see full contest details. Since the launch of this application, we have seen a growing numbers of users from across Canada share their opinions ... http://www.darbysieben.com/social-networking/facebook/182/100-in-free-gas-every-day-for-sharing-your-opinion/ As many of you know - my YP Labs team launched the YellowPages.ca Facebook Application back in May. I did a post on the television coverage by CTV - check it out. So what is the determining success in developing a facebook application? In the facebook world it really comes down ... http://www.darbysieben.com/local-internet-strategies/178/update-on-facebook-and-local-search/ I was stuck in all day meetings yesterday so did not have a chance to post this when it happened, but the team at Praized Media has fully launched it Distributed Platform yesterday. Congrats to Sebastien, Harry and Sylvain. I first posted about them in September after they received their ... http://www.darbysieben.com/local-internet-strategies/171/praized-media-launched-yesterday/ http://www.darbysieben.com/videos/166/darby-sieben-interview-with-greg-jarboe-of-seo-pr/