While tech pundits everywhere are looking at Web 2.0 for the latest online application technology and its global impact on the virtual world, another sea change is taking place in the actual world - the real world is making it’s way online, and it’s local. The “offline” world is being mapped, tagged and organized online at an unprecedented pace. We at Praized believe this wave is Local 2.0, where the promise of Web 2.0 technology extends to the area near you. We believe an important catalyst for this accelerated change will be the power of social networks combined with structured data to provide users with relevant, actionable information. Praized blog is dedicated to tracking this phenomenon in all its forms and making sense of it for companies, large and small. We hope Praized blog will be a collaborative effort with you, our readers. We want to know what you think and what you see are the challenges and opportunities for Local 2.0. Comments are welcome and email is too, email us at info (a) praized.com.
The Praized blog team is comprised of industry veterans: Sebastien Provencher, Internet strategy consultant with more than 7 years experience in local search at Yellow Pages Group, Sylvain Carle, blogger and web tech consultant and Harry Wakefield, blogger and former GM of YPG electronic directories.
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Sylvain Carle dwells in emerging technologies, he has been on the bleeding edge of new media and networked applications for more than 10 years. Communications tools, XML web services, digital media and Free Software, Open source and open standards are amongst his core expertises.
He has conceptualized, developed and managed more than 50 major internet projects, from elearning and kids games to social software and heavy-duty ecommerce applications.
He was schooled in Montreal’s first multimedia school, ICARI, where he obtained his diplomas in computer graphics for print and multimedia programming and digital video editing in 1993. Since finding that he could type in “www” in the console on the SGIs at school and later discovering that Gopher and Mosaic alson ran on the Mac Quadra 660AV, right alongside After Effects and Director, he has been permanently hooked on the net. On good days, you can fin d his blog on the #1 spot on Google just by typing his first name…
He recently was VP interactive media solutions at LVL Studio after merging his consulting company, the interstructure group, wihtin LVL. He was previously CTO at Messagia, managing software development and infrastructure. He did a one year stint in silicon valley in 1999-2000 to work as a high level consultant for several dot com startups. If we trace back his history back to before the first internet bubble, he was then project manager and technical architect at Public Technologie Multimedia as well as product manage of My Virtual Model, where he worked on major accounts and team lead.
He was on FACIL’s (collective appropriation of free software) board for two years after he helped it’s creation. He was also a founding member of W3Québec for the promotion of web best practices and standards. He stills is on the boards of both CAUCE Canada (antispam coalition) and Atwater Library’s digital literacy project. He writes for several industry newsletters and has been blogging for 6 years at www.afroginthevalley.com.
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With more than 10 years experience in local search, interactive entertainment and online media, Sebastien Provencher brings his own distinct point of view on local search, online directories, search engines and social networks. His expertise covers online strategy and marketing, product development and management, trends and technology watch.
From 1999 to 2007, Sebastien Provencher played an instrumental role in developing Yellow Pages Group’s (Canada’s leading directory publisher) online strategy, notably developing the most successful online advertising product ever (DirectoryPlus), striking a strategic partnership with Google, and creating a vision around local search. Sebastien Provencher is currently Vice-President, Product Management & Business Development at Praized Media Inc. His Linkedin profile can be found here and he can be contacted at seb AT praized.com.
