Archive for June 7th, 2007

the verticalization of local, act 1

Posted by Perry on June 7th, 2007

I’ve been waiting for awhile to see the first rev of Avvo - a new well-funded start-up which is tackling Attorney Search as a new local-vertical online publisher. This is really important - we need a catalyst to ignite the debate over how deeply local might disaggregate into a series of specialized destination sites. This one gets close to the jugular - attorneys have been mainstream advertisers in Yellow Pages for decades. (more…)