von Local Corp? Ich meine schon.
Facebook's new tips for Places puts it in competition with Foursquare
Quelle: blogger-avatar by Nicole Lee | @nicole | January 29th 2015 at 1:00 pm
If you've ever found yourself in a new restaurant or a trendy tourist spot, you might've looked up Yelp or Foursquare -- or, heaven forbid, used Google -- on your phone to find out where the best view is or whether or not you should order the shrimp. Now, you might not need to, as long as you have Facebook installed. That's because the company has just introduced something called "Place Tips," which, when enabled, essentially pops up relevant content about your location as long as you're there. Specifically, it'll show posts and photos about the place from your friends if they've also visited it. The feature sounds very similar to what Foursquare already does with its own Tips, but with a much more Facebook-centric bent.
But I am sure, that the new offer of Facebook and Foursquare in all it's offers since years hurt the following important patent of Local Corp from 2011.
A SeekingAlpha post highlighting a patent the company received this month called “System for providing localized shopping information.” The patent, originally filed in 2007, but just granted, sounds a lot like Groupon and other local deals sites.
“A localization service is provided that provides users with online information on local retailers that sell particular products,” the patent abstract says. “A user can perform a search using a web page associated with the localization service or by searching using an internet search engine. The user’s search includes a search origin. The search origin may be defined in terms of location information such as a place name or a postal code. A search for a particular product at local retailers may be made using search parameters such as search origins, product names, model numbers, product categories, and product attributes. The localization service may provide the user with search results in the form of web pages that list which retailers sell the desired product in the vicinity of the search origin. A targeted advertisement server at the localization service may use display criteria to determine which targeted advertisements should be displayed for the user.”
forbes/sites/ericsavitz/2011/10/14/local-spikes-on-local-product-search-patent/
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