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• Skype Outage, Google Health Coming, Social Money Management, Social Networks In A Box, New AOL Mobile & TECH cocktail Boston Sold Out

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Aol, Blogrovr, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Business, Community, Google, Mapquest, Mobile, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Co

  MovieFone, CityGuide & Mapquest Content AOL does a magnificent job of integrating its own content into the mobile search experience and given its suite of ready for mobile' services like MovieFone, MapQuest and CityGuide. 10 Ways to Socially Manage Your Money Web Worker Daily explains how to use the social web to improve your

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• Babies and weddings

  Published: September 24, 2007, 5:25 am

  Tags: Baby, Boob, Boobs, Bottle, Breastmilk, Directions, Formula, Long Island, Longisland, Map Quest, Mapquest, Mercer, Mr Pickles, Mr Pickles, Ny Metro Area, Nyc Living, Nycliving, Nymetroarea, Planning Ahead, Planningahead, Pre Pregnancy, Six Month Old, Sixmonthold, Wedding

  Filed under: Lifestyle, 3-6 months, Infant / First year, Road trip, Outings This past weekend I had the good fortune of getting out of the house to attend a friend's wedding. Bright and early Saturday morning my husband and I rented a zip car, packed up our nearly six-month-old baby and his various accoutrement and headed out for the 36-mile

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• Exclusive: MapQuest Plays Catch-Up With Launch of Beta

  Published: October 12, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Web 2 0 News Amp 038 Ideas, Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Aol, Mapquest

  Web era with the launch of MapQuest Beta. This is not just a sandbox where MapQuest can safely play with the newest Web 2.0 toys. It’s the new face of MapQuest and by the end of the year will take over the main site, which still remains a very 1.0, page-based destination. MapQuest Beta, in contrast, is built on Ajax, and is thus more

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• MapQuest Rebuilds 'From The Ground Up'

  Published: October 12, 2007, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Aol Mapquest

  MapQuest has launched a new beta site, which represents a new and rearchitected site with a host of new features and capabilities. The new MapQuest blog offers some additional insights and explanations. MapQuest says that the changes respond to user feedback. I'm sure that's true but the onslaught of mapping innovations and competition coming

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• Web Apps: What to use instead of Evite (and five other popular but terrible websites)

  Published: October 18, 2007, 3:01 am

  Tags: Blogger, Digg, Evite, Feature, Google Maps, Lifehacker, Mapquest, Mypunchbowl, Pownce, Socializr, Stumbleupon, Top, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, Vox, Web Apps, Wordpress, Youtube

  LOOSER" commentary. MapQuest: Use Google Maps You already know Google Maps is the best, but apparently most folks still use MapQuest, despite its awkward input forms and such. But, well, those folks aren't you. So I guess we've got a little extra time here before the article runs out. Go spend it at Vimeo. Nick Douglas writes at

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• MapQuest announces turn-by-turn navigation for mobile phones

  Published: November 19, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Technologies, Applications, Announcements, 5 0, Mapquest, Mobile, Mond, Navigator, Telemaps, Turn

  MapQuest has announced their new MapQuest Navigator 5.0 for anyone that finds that the pre-installed navigation software on their GPS-enabled mobile phone just doesn’t cut it. The new MapQuest Navigator 5.0 brings the convenience of turn-by-turn directions to your GPS mobile phone for $4.99 per month. MapQuest is working with Telemaps to

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• Brand Name to Brand X, Y and Z

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Brand, Name, And, Aol Llc, Truveo Inc, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Yahoo Inc, Comscore Inc, Kevin Conroy, Washington Dulles International Airport, Apple Itunes, California, Nullsoft Winamp, Flickr Com, Forrester Research Inc, Mapquest Com Inc, Microsoft Corporation

  AOL has begun flooding the Web with dozens of new and updated products, many of which do not even bear its famous name, in an attempt to expand its network and reach people wherever they may be.

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• MapQuest Gets “Green”

  Published: November 30, 2007, 8:08 pm

  Tags: Business, Health, Tech, Biodiesel, Gaspricesmappingtools, Green, Mapquest

  MapQuest’s gas prices mapping tool gets “green” offering its users information on alternative fuel options. It’s efficient, I was able to locate two options of biodiesel on Maui.

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• MapQuest Adds Gas Cost Calculator [Gas]

  Published: December 10, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Calculator, Gas, Mapquest, Money

  Mapquest has added a new feature on its Gas Prices page that pops up a small, simple calculator that can help you figure out how much it will cost to, say, visit your in-laws. Gas cost calculators are, of course, nothing all that new, but Mapquest's tool sits on the same page as its local gas price finder, eliminating at least one step in the

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• Google Maps Gaining On Market Leader Mapquest

  Published: January 10, 2008, 8:03 am

  Tags: Aol Mapquest

  Mapquest arguably "owns" the mapping brand online. It has been the dominant mapping site for years by a wide margin. But that dominance may now be slipping under pressure from Google. Hitwise reports that "traffic to Mapquest has remained flat year on year and is down 20% in the past 6 months. Google Maps traffic is up 135% year on year and is up

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• There's a Men's Route And a Women's Route

  Published: January 8, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: There S, Men S, Route, And, Women S, Karen Kostyal, Luc Tremblay, Jeffrey Taube, Maryland, Virginia, Mapquest Com Inc, Alexandria, Emily Lyons, John F Kennedy Jr, Martha S Vineyard, New Orleans, Dartmouth College, Department Of Psychological And Brain Sciences, National

  When strangers ask her for directions, Karen Kostyal responds quickly. She has lived around Washington about 30 years and has a well-rooted sense of the area. Nonetheless, the Alexandria resident says, "my husband usually cuts in," supporting the stereotype that men feel their sense of orientatio...

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• AOL Partners With IAC's CitySearch

  Published: February 14, 2008, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Advertising, Aol, Business, Content, Interactivecorp, Local, Mapping, Mapquest, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Citysearch, Iac, Mapquest, Partnership, Search

  AOL Local Search and MapQuest to leverage CitySearch's local content and in return CitySearch gains access to AOL's distribution. CitySearch CEO, Jay Herratti had this to say: "This partnership is a classic win-win' for both companies; Citysearch's content is great for AOL's audience, AOL's reach is great for Citysearch's

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• Find the Lowest Gas Prices Near You

  Published: May 31, 2008, 6:00 am

  Tags: Budgeting, Money, Fuel, Gas, Mapquest, Prices

  I just came across this site that helps you to find the lowest gas prices near you. Mapquest not only shows you the directions and map to places but also will help you to locate decent gas stations. On the site they tell you the lowest and then the highest prices in the nation [...]

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• Have you experienced the joy of live traffic updates?

  Published: June 19, 2008, 9:02 pm

  Tags: Cars, And Msn M, Google Maps, Inrix Total Traffic Fusion, Intelligently Combines Real Time Predictive Historical Traffic Information, Mapquest, Real Time Predictive Historical Traffic Information, Sigalert Com, Traffic Data Service, Xm Live Traffic, Yahoo Maps

  applications such as MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, and MSN Microsoft. INRIX is currently the traffic information provider for such systems and manufacturers as DASH, BMW, Volvo, Garmin, TomTom, and others. Total Traffic Fusion also promises to provide speed information for busy city streets and congested arterials, in addition to

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