Comments on: Local Mobile Apps from YellowPages.com http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vidi http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35926 vidi Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35926 They could have added the application an online reservation system based on SMS messages. So, you could make your reservation when you learn a restaurant or hotel near you. They could have added the application an online reservation system based on SMS messages. So, you could make your reservation when you learn a restaurant or hotel near you.

]]> By: YellowPages.com Local Applications for the iThing « LocalMN Blog http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35656 YellowPages.com Local Applications for the iThing « LocalMN Blog Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:58:54 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35656 [...] I just read an interesting article from Marketing Pilgrim labeled Local Mobile Apps from YellowPages.com. [...] [...] I just read an interesting article from Marketing Pilgrim labeled Local Mobile Apps from YellowPages.com. [...]

]]> By: Bryan Erskine http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35600 Bryan Erskine Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:08 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35600 Actually, yellowpages is just following Apple's lead. All iPhone optimized web sites are actually referred to as 'web applications' or web apps, for short. They're Web 2.0 applications. Check it out on Apple's site at www.apple.com/webapps -- lotta good stuff there. Actually, yellowpages is just following Apple’s lead. All iPhone optimized web sites are actually referred to as ‘web applications’ or web apps, for short. They’re Web 2.0 applications. Check it out on Apple’s site at www.apple.com/webapps — lotta good stuff there.

]]> By: mike http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35595 mike Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:27:17 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35595 I agree, they do make it confusing. I agree, they do make it confusing.

]]> By: Jordan McCollum http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35583 Jordan McCollum Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:32:00 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35583 Thanks for the clarification, guys. The confusion has probably stemmed from the fact that YellowPages refers to their iPhone-ready site as an "application" in the release. Thanks for the clarification, guys. The confusion has probably stemmed from the fact that YellowPages refers to their iPhone-ready site as an “application” in the release.

]]> By: mike http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35555 mike Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:04:02 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35555 There has been a lot of confusion over this today. This is only a downloadable app for 20 model phones - not including the iphone. For the iphone, as suggested by emad, it is a mobile website accessible by the safari browser, that users have to navigate to in order to use. This could change in early '08 when the iphone releases it's SDK to the developer community to develop apps that users can download directly to their iphone home screens. Until then, emad is right that you can only download apps to unlocked devices. And that is only being done by a small segment of tech savvy individuals. In the meantime all of the innovation for mobile local search products for the iphone have to reside on the mobile web and be accessed through safari. More details about the these distinctions are here: http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2007/10/30/yellowpagescom-launches-iphone-app/ There has been a lot of confusion over this today. This is only a downloadable app for 20 model phones – not including the iphone.

For the iphone, as suggested by emad, it is a mobile website accessible by the safari browser, that users have to navigate to in order to use.

This could change in early ’08 when the iphone releases it’s SDK to the developer community to develop apps that users can download directly to their iphone home screens.

Until then, emad is right that you can only download apps to unlocked devices. And that is only being done by a small segment of tech savvy individuals.

In the meantime all of the innovation for mobile local search products for the iphone have to reside on the mobile web and be accessed through safari.

More details about the these distinctions are here:

http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2007/10/30/yellowpagescom-launch es-iphone-app/

]]> By: emad http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html/comment-page-1#comment-35541 emad Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:38:39 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/local-mobile-apps-from-yellowpagescom.html#comment-35541 "Now, is it just me, or does forcing your users to go to your website kind of defeat the purpose of creating a downloadable web app?" iPhones, unless they've been unlocked, do not allow you to download/install an application. Instead, you access their website which has been specifically built for the iPhone. “Now, is it just me, or does forcing your users to go to your website kind of defeat the purpose of creating a downloadable web app?”

iPhones, unless they’ve been unlocked, do not allow you to download/install an application. Instead, you access their website which has been specifically built for the iPhone.

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