Thursday June 11, 2009
“There’s no question that local activity is going to continue forever. Organizing it online is probably the most difficult area [thumping his desk] because it is so local.”
— Barry Diller, whose IAC owns CitySearch, InsiderPages and UrbanSpoon, on the challenge of organizing local business information in an interview with PaidContent. He says CitySearch is “20 percent of the way there” and ahead of everyone else.
Cory Bergman founded Lost Remote in 1999 with the slogan, "The TV Revolution is Coming. Are You Ready?" For years, Cory has urged media companies to lead the way on technology before someone else does it for them.A longtime journalist, Cory is the director of new product development at msnbc.com as well as the co-founder (with his wife Kate) of the hyperlocal news startup Next Door Media in Seattle. He's also on the advisory board for the University of Washington's innovative digital media program. In his personal time, Cory lays awake at night obsessing over new sustainable business models for local news on the web. Email him at cory[at]lostremote.com.
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