Hordes of office workers in the skyscrapers of Midtown Manhattan browse online for lunch ideas on any given day of the week, and as many as 100,000 a month are taking advice from 
Five years ago, Glen Justice had a regular front-page byline in the New York Times. Gumshoeing it through databases and public records, Justice had become the Times’s campaign-finance man in Washington, his work helping bring to light the shenanigans of Jack Abramoff and characters of similar ilk. But he was gripped with a sense that he’d somehow missed his calling and began pondering how to create a Web site to funnel a different passion: sailing. 
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One day TV Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli had one of those dangerous “what if” moments. What if you put put the actual interactive radar map for an area on your local site? So he founded As local media sites continue to look for ways to create and sell low cost high quality video to small businesses one contender is Spotmixer. The product is simple enough, a set of 200 video advertising templates by industry, that media can customize with voice overs, text, music, photos, mood and pacing by following a wizard (or use SpotMixer’s experts for a fee).I spoke with Leslie Latham, Vice President of Business Development just after she signed up Comcast Spotlight in San Francisco. Read More »
Everyscape, a provider of software that creates interactive panoramic video tours, called “webscapes” has an interesting play for local media companies. So far the company has partnered mostly with merchant associations using its own sales force to sign up the merchants. But there is no reason media companies can’t do the same thing, obtaining video content for “experiential” guides like dining and nightlife, or for hyperlocal communities. Read More »
“Best of” contests gain new life online when media companies partner with Web-savvy CityVoter, a site that let’s visitors vote for their favorite establishments. So far mostly broadcast sites with no established “Best of” brand have taken advantage of the opportunity. “TV is a no-brainer. Its like a megaphone,” says Joshua Walker, founder and CEO. “I’m still looking for the print that can activate as well as TV. Print companies tend to get caught up in Church and State issues.” According to the Kelsey Group about half of the traffic from contests comes from the media, the other half comes through the CityVoter site. Read More »
