LiveDeal to Cross Sell Print & Online Ads
LiveDeal to Cross Sell Print & Online Ads I ran into a couple of people form LiveDeal at Inman’s Real Estate Connect yesterday and they...
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Google Mobile Adds Traffic & Drive Times
Google Mobile Adds Traffic & Drive Times Traffic and drive times were added to Google Mobile Maps and the company is offering more customization for...
YouTube Growth is Almost Shocking
YouTube Growth is Almost Shocking According to this Reuters article that appeared Sunday, video site YouTube is now serving 100 million (yes, that’s right) videos...
Yahoo Finance Gets Makeover
Yahoo Finance Gets Makeover Here’s the new look. Here’s a quick overview from Elinor Mills at CNET and more detail on the specific changes and...
Bebo Turns Down $550 Million?
Bebo Turns Down $550 Million? TechCrunch reports that up-and-coming social networking site Bebo, which has caught MySpace in the UK, has declined a $550 million...
Google Call Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan?
Google Call Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan? Being reported in several places today is Google’s stated intention to open a “research center” in Ann Arbor,...
Yahoo Trip Planner : Social Media Bearing Fruit
Yahoo Trip Planner : Social Media Bearing Fruit Trip Planner was Yahoo!’s user-generated content travel experiment until today, when it came out of beta. And...
Jingle and MerchantCircle Team for 411 Service
Jingle and MerchantCircle Team for 411 Service Jingle will distribute MerchantCircle “plus” ($99 per mo) level advertisers over its 1800-Free-411 DA service. This is good...
Yahoo! 4th of July Mashup
Yahoo! 4th of July Mashup SiliconBeat points to a nice mashup Yahoo! put together (promoted on Yahoo! Local) to help Americans find local July 4th...
YouTube is the Google of Video
YouTube is the Google of Video Following in MySpace’s footsteps, YouTube is a bona fide phenomenon online. Depending on whom you believe, YouTube either had...
The Google & MySpace Story
The Google & MySpace Story Back in May I wrote a post called “Google’s Social Awkwardness,” about how Google’s potential vulernability resided in its general...
Ingenio’s Ether Now Out of Beta
Ingenio’s Ether Now Out of Beta The ether “private beta” has been running for several months, but now comes the public beta. There’s no marketing...
Google Premium Video Offers Free Test
Google Premium Video Offers Free Test In an experment on selected (not all) premium video content, Google Video is offering users the ability to watch...
New York Times Happy About (.com) Online Results
New York Times Happy About (.com) Online Results The New York Times reported ad revenues for May, compared with last year. Here are some highlights:...
Yahoo! : Buy WordPress or SixApart!
Yahoo! : Buy WordPress or SixApart! I use WordPress and it has glitches and “cludgey” aspects (like the time I thought I’d lost all my...
BackFence Launches Palo Alto Bay Area Site
BackFence Launches Palo Alto Bay Area Site Backfence.com, which recently purchased Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere as a strategy for entering the Bay Area market, formally launched...
Google Maps Integrates Local Product Data
Google Maps Integrates Local Product Data Google’s Froogle last year became one of only a select few shopping sites to start to offer local, “offline”...
TurnHere : YouTube of Travel & Local Video
TurnHere : YouTube of Travel & Local Video If you were to ask me, “what’s the most interesting local site out there?” Today I might...
Yahoo Video Social Sharing : YouTube & MySpace Features
Yahoo Video Social Sharing : YouTube & MySpace Features Previously announced on Analyst Day, Yahoo! has launched its new, more social and more personalized video...
Google & Dell: Pimp My Desktop
Google & Dell: Pimp My Desktop The word “pimp” has come to mean elaborately adorn or customize, as in “pimp my ride” or the more...
Role of Search in the Buying Cycle
Role of Search in the Buying Cycle Yahoo! has done a bunch of pioneering work and research on how search and paid search influence consumer...
MySpace Losing Its Cool?
MySpace Losing Its Cool? Last week at Yahoo! Analyst Day, the company touted its social search and social media strategies as giving it an edge...
Will the Real True Local Please Stand Up?!
Will the Real True Local Please Stand Up?! A battle is brewing between Geosign’s TrueLocal search engine and News Corp.’s newly minted Australia-only (for now)...
Google Talk & Nokia’s 770 Internet Browsing Device
Google Talk & Nokia’s 770 Internet Browsing Device It’s not a cellphone but it plays one on TV. From today’s WSJ (sub req’d): Google Inc....
Google Gets Web 2.0 Religion
Google Gets Web 2.0 Religion From where I sit, the most interesting part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s opening remarks (beyond the fact that he...
AIM Pages, MySpace, and Marketing Opportunities
AIM Pages, MySpace, and Marketing Opportunities First, here’s the Flickr screenshot of AOL’s new AIM Pages (with more detail from PaidContent via TechCrunch). It’s very...
TiVo Turns TV into Search Engine
TiVo Turns TV into Search Engine From the press release today: ‘TiVo Product Watch’ [ ] offers advertisers an innovative new way to reach TiVo...
Craigslist and the Local Market
Craigslist and the Local Market There was a very long piece in Sunday’s NY Times (reg. req’d) on Craigslist and the rental real estate market....
Microsoft, Vexcel and Local Search
Microsoft, Vexcel and Local Search Microsoft today confirmed that it had acquired Vexcel, a mapping and remote sensing company that primarily works for the US...
MSN AdCenter Targets Google AdWords & Yahoo Search Marketing
MSN AdCenter Targets Google AdWords & Yahoo Search Marketing Microsoft’s AdCenter is scheduled to formally launch today. Its chief selling feature, AdCenter promises to offer...