) January 12, 2009 -- DC City Blog, a insider's guide on places to go and things to do in DC, today launched a suite of services to help local businesses connect with DC-area residents through online channels.

DC City Blog

The new services include:

Editorial Review
A writer will visit the venue or event, talk with patrons and key staff, and compile a comprehensive editorial review. The review will then be hosted on DC City Blog, and distributed through the DC City Blog online network to hundreds of local journalists and bloggers.

) October 16, 2008 -- According to recent studies, over 20 million Americans read blogs every single day. When considering that many of the most popular blogs are political in nature, it should come as no surprise that millions of blog readers are located in Washington, DC. As a result, DC residents are flocking to blogs in increasing numbers to keep up with what's new and exciting in the local nightlife scene.

) July 13, 2009 -- GrubHub.com, the only service that shows all the restaurants that deliver and allows users to order directly online, announced today their beta launch in Washington, D.C. GrubHub.com currently operates in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, and now the Washington, D.C./Arlington, VA area. GrubHub.com is a free service that gives access to over 8,000 menus and works with over 2,000 restaurants to provide online and phone ordering.

Who delivers to your home or office? GrubHub.com answers this question for you. Users type in their address on GrubHub.com, and the page displays every restaurant that delivers to that location, with the restaurants' menus, hours for delivery, available coupons, and reviews.

) October 15, 2008 -- BooRah, the leading restaurant-specific online review guide, today announced the launch of its free, location-enabled Web Services API for Web sites and businesses looking to offer online restaurant reviews and ratings to their visitors. BooRah's Web Services API delivers the same core semantic technology that powers BooRah.com and BooRah's award winning Yahoo! SearchMonkey application, along with applications suitable for portals, local newspaper publishers and location-enabled phones.

"BooRah's API offers comprehensive restaurant search capability along with unique 'Boo' and 'Rah' ratings unavailable from any other website," said Eric Moyer, CEO and Co-Founder of BooRah.

) September 17, 2009 -- OrlandoTravelHotels.com, a travel site launched by Xcellimark in partnership with WCT, a division of Travelocity Partner Network, recently added a blog. The Orlando Travel & Hotels Blog contains helpful information and traveling tips for visitors to the Central Florida area. Whether visitors want the inside scoop on local attractions and information on the best restaurants, shopping spots and more, the Orlando Travel & Hotels Blog is the first place they should look after booking a trip to Orlando.

) January 13, 2009 -- Horror T-Shirts at Headstone City stands for the unique - inspired by all things horror, the avant-garde and the things that go bump in the night. In a world flooded with typical, run-of-the-mill horror and skull t-shirts, Headstone City creates one-of-a-kind designs. Other clothing lines consist of the same kind of horror t-shirt - a bitmapped movie poster thrown onto a shirt. Sure those shirts can be cool, but not if the desire is for something original. Headstone City prints clean, creative and simple designed horror t-shirts.

) October 3, 2009 -- Website rating and review network Hiztoria LLC (www.hiztoria.com) has pledged a long-term commitment to doing business in Kansas City and has urged the local population to engage with Hiztoria, in a move designed to give back to the community and generate more interest in Kansas City from technology entrepreneurs looking to set up in business.

Hiztoria.com

) August 25, 2008 -- Eva Magnus, the owner of Grafica said, "I am glad to offer these additional services, as with the rising cost of food, some restaurants have been losing money by waiting to redo their menus and not passing on the increased (food) costs to their customers soon enough. My fees are reasonable, and if the restaurant updates their layout, an increase in food sales should be expected. We offer laminated menus, as well as menus with a variety of different covers to choose from...or if there are existing menu covers, updating just the inserts is an option. After I supply the artwork for the new menu, the restaurant owner has the option of having Grafica print them."

) April 30, 2009 -- TourSpot's travel and city guide application is now available in the Apple App Store. TourSpot has created a city guide application for the iPhone with innovative features like social network integration with Facebook, live and interactive maps, mobile coupons, and live travel content.

TourSpot New York Tour

TourSpot's travel content is written by travel writers. Whenever possible, TourSpot provides links to relevant Wikipedia articles that provide its users even more information about points of interest.

The Blog FreeBoozeReport.blogspot.com, was created as a result of Jessica and Mos need to keep New York City residents in the know about free booze news and event coverage. Do you like booze? Do you like it when its free? If the answer is yes read the Free Booze Report Said Mo as she wrote this press release.
The Free Booze Report is a weekly blog that posts party invitations and covers some of the most exclusive launch parties, Openings, and a slew of other free booze events around New York. Recent surveys have shown that most people like free things. It is our duty to inform New Yorkers about places they can get their free drink onone event at a time!
For more information on the Free Booze Report, contact Mo at FreeBoozeReport ( @ ) gmail dot com.

Content Writing India has introduced its first blog on net. The intention behind the launch of the blog is to provide various informative and resourceful contents for its site visitors. This blog section can be found by typing www.content-writing-india.com/blog/ on web browsers.

) October 28, 2008 -- City travelers are progressively looking to learn more about the local culture of their chosen destinations. They do not only want to "do a city" by visiting standard highlights.

An excellent example of this shift in travel attitude can be seen in the hugely successful Couchsurfing project (where visitors can stay with locals instead of in hotels). The project has risen from 6,000 members in 2004 to a significant 750,000 in 2008.

) October 29, 2008 -- Lehigh Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, the official tourist promotion agency for the three-city eastern Pennsylvania region, has created a new blog to help inform visitors about the region's many attractions, events and activities.

) September 12, 2009 -- GroupExclusives.com offers collegiate, youth, amateur and association team travel planners a fun and creative way to receive cost and time saving bids direct from hotels and restaurants. With the introduction of the restaurant RFP functionality, the site now offers complete hotel and meal solutions to traveling sports teams.

GroupExclusives.com Home page

) June 25, 2009 -- Happn.in - http://happn.in - is a new service that provides insight into local events and issues through the lens of Twitter users. Happn.in filters and collects Twitter trends by city, and provides users with a summary of what's being talked about, right now, by people near them.

Happn.in

Happn.in can be used in several ways:

) July 20, 2009 -- Chef2video, the food and cooking centric user-generated video site, today highlighted the Top 10 in "Thoughtful Food Blogs" for 2009. Chef2video defines the "thoughtful food blogs" category as those websites dedicated to educating people and businesses on health and economic conscious trends in the food industry. These trends include Sustainable Food (local & grow your own), Food Transparency and Traceability, Home Cooking and Healthy Eating (pro-organic, anti-GMO) and how these impact people and traditional businesses like restaurants and grocery stores.

) January 13, 2009 -- Oregon Beach Vacations, the leader in vacation rentals along Oregon's magnificent coastline, has recently added an interactive video community and blog to their website: www.OregonBeachVacations.com.

Oregon Beach Vacations

) June 18, 2009 -- Windy City Strategies, a leading Internet marketing consulting firm, recently promoted one of its many client benefits, the 60 day satisfaction guarantee program, for new clients with existing Google AdWords advertising, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft AdCenter accounts.

) May 13, 2009 -- Albany.com announced this week that Capital Region Living Magazine, the leading life and leisure publication for the Capital Region and Tech Valley, has moved their online home to Albany.com/capitalregionliving to increase their exposure in the community.

Capital Region Living Magazine - Albany.com/capitalregionliving

) October 27, 2009 -- ZocDoc, the website to find doctors and book appointments online instantly, today launched in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The company's move to Washington, D.C. marks the first stop in a major national rollout that will continue through 2010. The company will initially offer available appointments with primary care physicians and dentists, and will add new specialties ongoing.

ZocDoc provides access to doctors' schedules in real-time, at a glance. The service also gives users the ability to search by their insurance, and make informed decisions based on doctor reviews exclusively provided by other ZocDoc users.

The fast and easy way to get an unbiased opinion of a city from local residents. (PRWeb Nov 7, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1576224.htm

) July 24, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants has launched a new website to help restaurants promote their value priced deals and restaurant promotions. Oh yeah, and did we mention that they're doing it for free?

eMeal Alerts logo

Hotel Monaco Baltimore, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants' first location in the city, is now welcoming guests with Video-On-Demand service from SuiteLinq, Inc. Located in the heart of Baltimore's downtown area, Hotel Monaco is a four-star property that uniquely reflects the vibrancy of the historic city. (PRWeb Aug 12, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2735084.htm

Event Management Group (EMG) Inc. is looking for hot, fresh talented web developers. EMG wants to create excitement within the Martial Arts community in the Golden Horseshoe area by creating a blog for fighters and fans to read the latest news and events in the local area. To this end, a contest was created with the end goal that the winner will be awarded a $1500 Website Development contract.
"The Martial Arts online presence is fairly limited to a few sites, many with paid subscriptions to view premium content or have no ads while browsing those sites." said spokesperson Don Belmore. "This Blog concept is designed to showcase some local talent and pull together Southern Ontario's fighters and events."

) October 15, 2008 -- HowToRentInNYC.com launched in March of 2007 and has since become one of the most popular sources on the web for New York City renters. The creator and director of HowToRentInNYC.com, Alicia Schwartz, is launching a new addition to the site, the HowToRentInNYC.com's Rental Blog.

Underground Vaults & Storage (UV&S) is pleased to announce that it is now offering climate controlled underground vaulting services in the Oklahoma City, OK area.

) April 3, 2009 -- iGoMogul, the premier name in online real estate, has launched a blog with guides to building websites, writing blog content, and company news. Every week the iGoMogul blog will give you a taste of what's new and exciting on the web with featured client sites and picks from our staff. The blog will also give visitors a peek at some of our talented employees with interviews.

) December 23, 2008 - The votes have been cast and by an overwhelming majority, I Must Eat - www.imusteat.com is the winner. I Must Eat is the most comprehensive online ordering internet restaurant dining guide out in the marketplace today.

It began at the grassroots level. It started as a small rumbling of stomachs but quickly became the number one issue of foodies across the United States. People were hungry for a nationwide online ordering restaurant dining guide and they demanded action.

) February 25, 2009 -- It's a typical sight at local Dairy Queen® locations where people are sharing smiles and stories over delicious food and cravable treats. For nearly 70 years, the all-American favorite and treat category leader has been a trendsetter, such as with the often imitated but never duplicated signature Blizzard® Treat. Now, after more than 200,000 mentions of the brand in the blogosphere (according to a Google blog search), the DQ® system is joining the conversation by initiating the official Dairy Queen blog at http://Blog.DairyQueen.com, which makes sense for a brand that is social by nature.

Infite inc has launched the Blogomator blog autoposting and scheduling web based software to help blog owners get more traffic, income and subscribers by automating the posting of content.

) July 9, 2009 -- With so many small businesses announcing bankruptcies and layoffs anything they can do to increase sales and lead captures in these tough economic times are proving invaluable.

UK Local Search Guide

With the major search engines investing millions of pounds in improving the Local Search experience, gathering new customers from online search results has now reached a major tipping point for local businesses.

JetNet 3705 5-port Industrial PoE Switch has been recently integrated in a city surveillance project for providing a reliable and real-time video transmission across the public area.

) November 4, 2008 -- City travelers are progressively looking to learn more about the local culture of their chosen destinations. They do not only want to "do a city" by visiting standard highlights. An excellent example of this shift in travel attitude can be seen in the hugely successful Couchsurfing project (where visitors can stay with locals instead of in hotels). The project has risen from 6,000 members in 2004 to a significant 750,000 in 2008.

Founders Sanne & Bart van Poll

) December 9, 2008 -- The City of Providence, RI, has recently launched a web-based system designed to assist city departments in tracking and resolving citizen service requests. Using the QAlert Municipal CRM system by QScend Technologies, Providence can more efficiently respond to citizen inquires and better manage city resources while resolving those issues.

"This is about using state-of-the-art technology to hold ourselves accountable while keeping residents informed, every step of the way, as we work to improve the delivery of City services," said Mayor David Cicilline. "QAlert also provides us with a clearer understanding of constituents' needs so that we can make smarter decisions about deploying resources."

) December 11, 2008 -- Travelers heading to Mexico City save on bed, breakfast and more with the "Bed & Breakfast Package" at the 209-room luxury Mexico City hotel Marquis Reforma, a member of Leading Hotels of the World.
Available through December 31, 2009, the Mexico City hotel package includes luxurious accommodations in a Junior suite, daily buffet breakfast, complimentary internet access and 500 American Airlines miles (not contingent on flying American to Mexico City). The package price starts at $205 per room, per night, based on double occupancy. Taxes are additional.

) October 24, 2009 -- The idea behind The Restaurant Section is for restaurant owners to affordably market their restaurants online by creating a complete fact sheet on their business profile within The Restaurant Section. Once the profile is complete, The Restaurant Section begins to market the restaurants. Clifford Bramble, the founder of The Restaurant Section wanted to pass on his experience about marketing and publicizing a restaurant to other restaurant owners. And with the technology available, and the economy on a rebound, he feels that now is the perfect time to start.

) December 4, 2008 -- Chapeau Blog Awards (www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com) announces Blog Review, an online destination dedicated to providing bloggers a channel to review and comment on blogs around the world.

All blogs are subject to being reviewed on Blog Review, including political blogs, entertainment blogs and opinion blogs.

) December 30, 2008 -- Chapeau Blog Awards (www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com) is offering bloggers a chance to earn some brilliant money and a free entry into the Chapeau Blog Awards with the newly launched Chapeau Blog Awards' Affiliate Program.

) May 27, 2009 -- Mediacom Communications and Newsy.com (www.newsy.com) have agreed to launch an innovative partnership focused on delivering new forms of news content to Mediacom customers. The partnership will develop and test several different methods of news content and distribution using a combination of Mediacom's advanced cable and broadband network and Newsy.com digital news services.

The intention of the partnership is to provide the communities that Mediacom serves with innovative news services.

) September 29, 2008 -- NAS Recruitment Communications Northeastern Division announced the launch of a new blog, geared to provide clients easy access to information vital to today's recruitment issues and challenges.