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Long Hill Consulting - creating smart solutions since 1989
Long Hill has been providing quality and reliable software consulting services for twenty years. Our experience includes technology development and management, industry and technology analysis, and strategic planning. We have worked with a range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies in insurance, health care, and manufacturing; educational institutions such as Dartmouth College; technology companies; and most special of all, small businesses. We've been at the forefront of the growth of the Internet, having been involved with the successful IPO of Vicinity, one of the first providers of location-based services on the web. Vicinity was acquired by Microsoft in 2002.
Our specific areas of focus are databases, web applications, and local search, but the breadth of our experience gives us the perspective of generalists. We are neither enticed by fads nor timid of innovation. We are in business to craft, recommend and implement cost-effective solutions for our clients.
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We were involved with some of the earliest location-based services on the web: high volume Internet Yellow Pages, groundbreaking spatially-enabled Internet search, and mapping and geocoding services. We authored two patents related to local search. Our industry analysis is highly regarded.
Combine our experience with web applications, content management, databases, and advanced search, with a major educational institution's Development Campaign as a catalyst, and you get a simple but elegant fundraising platform.
We've worked on large and small web projects for large and small clients. We have been working with the major Relational Database Management Systems since 1986. We have experience with a wide range of applications, including web-based content management; PCI-compliant(Payment Card Industry) transaction-oriented payment processing; full-text search and faceted browsing; and spatially-enabled Internet Yellow Pages (IYP). We can help with design, implementation, deployment, and tuning.
We value our ability to think clearly and communicate effectively. View some of our work by clicking through on the Writing and Analysis sidebar links.
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Writing & Analysis
Why local business content on the web is still in such a sorry state,
and a
follow-up
Google, local content, and the shape of things to come
A close look at a local search patent
"Local Search: The Internet IS the Yellow Pages," IEEE Computer, Feb 2005
Read Marty's interview on local search with Greg Sterling of The Kelsey Group ...
And here is a good introduction to the current state of the art in local search Marty wrote for Directions Magazine in April, 2005 ...
Nice words
"I recommend reading the whole piece. Himmelstein appears to be thinking systemically... holistically. Impressive..."
Marty's engineering work for our web-based donor honor roll application was the most significant contributor to the project's success. Marty designed a product that fully satisfied both our business goals and the needs of our website visitors, and the application has performed reliably and flawlessly for many months. We could not be more pleased with the results.
Meg Houston Maker
Director of External Information Services
Dartmouth College Development
Events
Marty spoke at the Kelsey Group's conference on Interactive Local Media in November, 2005 ...
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