This year I will be attending and speaking at SMX Stockholm. There you will find me presenting a Local Search business case with one of our clients; Boat Company Lovers. My fellow speaker will be Jaap Dijkstra, Business Developer at  Boat company Lovers –  one of the leading companies organizing Canal Cruises in Amsterdam. Some of [...]

According to Belgium newspaper ‘De Standaard‘ Google will soon file a declaration to the Belgium Privacy Commission to continue their Street View project in Belgium. Google thought at first it would not be necessary to file a declaration because of existing certificates that made their datasharing between EU and US possible.

A statement from the privacy [...]

Street View UK and NL have been added to Google Maps – for me a great opportunity to get back into the writing saddle.
Major cities have now been added to Google Maps Street View for both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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Cities that have been added include London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, [...]

Google Maps just was upgraded with a new Layer feature, called Transit. It comes directly from the Google Transit product.
Transit information was already available in some countries, but it wasn’t available from directly from the interface.
The Google LatLong blog reported this just a few minutes ago. Go along and use it and be sure to [...]

Less is more, that’s what Google wrote on their LatLong blog. They decided to clean the Google Maps interface a bit, which was by now cluttered with all kinds of information which made some of the users dazzle.
Again, Let’s do something for the user-experience. let’s make it more easy! Bigger Map viewing area for example. [...]

There is no such thing as mobile internet, it is the same internet!

This was one of the (quite obvious, but often misunderstood) messages of Mobile 2.0 Europe, which I was attending on behalf of my employer Onetomarket.It was a very interesting event, especially the panel rounds. Most fun part was the discussion between the community/businesses [...]

Google is changing their Local Business Center interface. For many of you, you will start thinking, YES! finally!
Actually I like the new interface and it definitely encourages people to add more data to their business listings. In the old tabbed model you were able to just finish after entering your business details and forget about [...]

I have been using the Google Local Business Center (LBC) for quite some time now.

Setting up your account and adding business locations is really easy, that is, if it’s only a few.
What happens when adding multiple listings using the bulk-upload method? For me this is the preferred method. It’s lightning fast, it tells you which [...]

Map spam is starting to become a problem in Europe as well. Most of us might know (almost infamous) Mike Blumenthal for his ongoing vendetta against map spam and battering Google in the process.
According to this article it says that Maps Guide Jen made the statement that businesses were only allowed to have only one listing per [...]