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Will Blinkx Get Bought? I got a press call today about Blinkx’s newly announced RSS video/multimedia feed. That quickly led to a broader discussion about...

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News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace In the emerging tradition of “old media” buying “new media,” Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced today that it was acquiring Intermix...

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Meta Social Networking Coming Soon One of the points former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus made in his keynote address at Interactive Local Media ‘04 was...

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SuperPages Upgrades Web Site Verizon SuperPages today announced the relaunch of its site. The new site is better integrated and more user-friendly than the previous...

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Yahoo! Adds Metasearch to HotJobs Not wanting to be “disintermediated” by Oodle, SimplyHired, WorkZoo, Indeed and other existing and potential classifieds aggregators, Yahoo!—as reported on...

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Newspapers Acquire HomeGain Real Estate Vertical Classified Ventures, a newspaper partnership that includes KRD, Gannett, The Washington Post Co., Belo Interactive and the Tribune Co.,...

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Google Earth and Google Maps API After playing around with Google Earth this morning I’d have to say: it’s really, really cool (to use the...

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Google Earth Has Landed Google has launched its much anticipated Google Earth (GE) makeover of Keyhole. Dubbed “a 3D interface to the planet,” it’s basically...

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eBay ProStores to Build Sites for SMEs One of the announcements coming out of eBay Live, which I’m merely reading about rather than attending, is...

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AOL Unwraps Its New Portal AOL beta-launched its new portal, with certain pieces to follow later (e.g., video, personalization). Internal and external expectations are high...

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MSN Local Search Goes Live Today is the summer solstice, an auspicious day for the beta launch of MSN Local Search. Though late to the...

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Google’s Wallet Not Another PayPal That’s according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The tantalizing quote from Schmidt was: “The payment services we are working on...

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Google Should Buy… John Battelle points to an interesting piece at Kuro5hin, “a tech/culture site,” which reviews Google’s past acquisitions and about who/what the company...

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Evidence of Pay-per-Call Success AOL distribution brings a report of success with Ingenio’s pay-per-call for a Cruise Operator. Calls are ultimately a key to local...

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Search Engine Map Wars Because “war” is the metaphor business journalists like to use for competition and almost everything else. . . welcome to “Map...

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Scripps Grabs Shopzilla Right on the heels of eBay’s costly acquisition of Shopping.com, Cincinnati-based, “diversified media” company E.W. Scripps buys Shopzilla (formerly BizRate). The price...

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Google the Advertising Agency Over the weekend, Chris Gaither wrote an interesting and entertaining piece in the LA Times about the role of the Google...

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MSN Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth In the battle of the interactive maps, MSN is seeking to challenge Google’s satellite mapping supremacy with a suite...

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Accoona: Time to Worry? Last Fall general purpose (as opposed to niche) search engine Accoona launched to considerable media fanfare. Yes the name does come...

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Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search I missed Blogdigger’s announcement about the addition of local a few days ago. Local.blogdigger.com appears to be a...

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Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe Ask Jeeves has acquired Excite Europe from Tiscali for EUR 6.1 millions (an apparent pittance). In March of last year,...

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My Google – Personal Google Home Page My Google is here. Though that’s not the official name, that’s what the new home page personalization features...

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Google Advertising Locally? Danny Sullivan pointed to a very interesting thread on the Webmaster World forum about Google advertising in the Kansas City market for...

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