MapQuest has launched a new beta site, which represents a new and rearchitected site with a host of new features and capabilities. The new MapQuest blog offers some additional insights and explanations. MapQuest says that the changes respond to user feedback. I’m sure that’s true, but the onslaught of mapping innovations and competition coming from […]
It’s official. Sphinn (we pronounce it like "spin"), our social news and discussion site for internet marketing, is now out of beta. OK — so the logo still says beta at the moment, but that will change in a matter of hours. Since we launched back in July, we’ve been working out bugs and improving […]
Yahoo Go 2.0 and related mobile oneSearch offerings are coming out of beta this Friday and going into “general availability” in the U.S. While consumers pay no attention to these distinctions — alpha, beta, gamma and so on — it signals Yahoo’s confidence in the product. Simultaneously, nation-specific versions of Go will be released in […]
The Google Analytics blog announced that they are taking Google Analytics out of beta and adding several features based on customer feedback. The features include:
Although Microsoft might disagree, Yahoo was really the company that kicked off the dynamic mapping arms race back in March of 2004 with the introduction of a feature called “SmartView” ( a version of it still exists on Yahoo Maps “dial-up” presentation). SmartView enabled users of Yahoo Maps to conduct map-based searches using category buttons […]
The Live Search Blog announced that the Live Search SOAP API is now out of beta. In addition, they added some new features including more languages, increased search results, enhanced search tags, more local options, improved phone results and more coding samples.