MySpace.com on Cingular Cell Phones
Reuters reports the announcement coming today: Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones...
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Google Cell Phone (GPhone) and Its Prospects
Om Malik has an interesting post and speculation about mobile carrier Orange, mobile device maker HTC and Google teaming up for a Google-branded phone. Here’s...
Google & Expanding Beyond the PC
There’s a long article today by Kevin Delaney in the WSJ (sub req’d) about Google’s efforts to woo advertisers into its print and audio ads...
MySpace.com The Biggest?
There’s no offical comScore release out yet, but several sources are reporting (this is the TechCrunch post) that MySpace has become “the biggest site on...
Google Earth Meets Wikipedia & Geographic Web Layering
Google has aggregated what it’s calling a “Geographic Web Layer” in Google Earth. It’s a collection of photos and informational content from Wikipedia, Panoramio and...
Google Traffic Distribution Dominated By Search
Hitwise’s Bill Tancer recently posted about the distribution of Google’s traffic across its many properties. As you might expect and has been historically true, that...
AskCity vs. Citysearch : IAC Local Search Properties
There’s something of a dance going on between the new AskCity, which got huge amounts of coverage since launch a week or so ago, and...
Search Keyword Prices & Branding
SEM firm Fathom Online has been reporting flat (or declining) average keyword prices for the past several quarters. But that doesn’t entirely make sense. Paid...
Zillow Free Listings & Other Features
Plugging a hole that has existed since launch earlier this year, real estate valuation site Zillow is going to start allowing local realtors to post...
Local Search and Importance of Location
Bill Slawski has an extensive post about a new Google patent application pertaining to local, which factors in other information in determining location ranking vs....
Do People Use Click to Call?
Both Google Maps and Windows Live Local have “click to call” (not yet PPCall) embedded now in their products. And several Internet yellow pages are...
YouTube.com & Verizon : Mobile Video
Here’s the WSJ (sub req’d) on the deal: The agreement with Verizon is YouTube’s first major deal with a wireless carrier as it tries to...
AskCity : New Local Offering from IAC
Barry Diller and IAC are going to launch something called “AskCity” next week, which will be a consolidated local offering under the Ask brand: The...
Will Google News Pay for Content?
Google has reached a settlement in its copyright suit in Belgium with with news photographers and journalists. The NY Times (reg req’d) carries the Bloomberg...
Local Search Growing for Service Businesses
Believe it or not there are still people out there who are skeptical that the Internet is having a real impact in the “yellow pages”...
Google & Yahoo Compete for Mobile Search Market
While Google is currently the undisputed king (making others the queen, prince, baron, duke and viscount) of search that’s not necessarily going to automatically translate...
Urban Mapping : Natural Local Search
I had lunch last Friday with Ian White, CEO of Urban Mapping. The genesis of Urban Mapping is a fascinating story of perseverance and timing...
Yahoo! Hotjobs Newspaper Deal Coming Soon
Rumored for some time, Yahoo! is apparently close to closing a deal with six newspaper groups. According the WSJ: Yahoo Inc. is close to a...
Yahoo Maps Adds New Features
Deciding to avoid the arms race that Google and MSFT are engaged in around dynamic and 3-D mapping, Yahoo! has taken a more pragmatic approach:...
Loki : Local Meta Search
Loki is a toolbar/technology from Skyhook Wireless that, once downloaded, uses WiFi triangulation to determine user location and saves the step of having to enter...
Google Local Events Search Added to Google Calendar
Google has added a “search public events” button to Google Calendar. Here’s more from Philipp Lenssen and the Official Google Blog. Here’s an example of...
Google Testing Ads in 50 Print Newspapers
Google is launching what it is calling an “alpha” program in which 100 advertisers, both large and small, will have an opportunity to buy ads...
Yahoo Food : Munchies 2.0
Yesterday, Yahoo! launched its “Green Center” for Autos. Today: Yahoo! Food. Among others, this is an Epicurious competitor. Food looks like a pretty rich (no...
Yahoo Autos ‘Green Center’
Getting out in front of the increasing market for “green” products and services, Yahoo! Autos has launched a “Green Center.” The site profiles and rates/ranks...
Search Marketing : Most Cost Efficient Customer Acquisition Tool
Internet Retailer reported on a Piper Jaffray study, which finds that search is the most cost-efficient customer acquisition tool. Print yellow pages ranked second. Here’s...
AOL Video Adds More Content
AOL Video is expanding the content available on its site through a deal with several content partners, the most visible of which is Viacom’s Paramount...
Google AdWords Starter Edition : Review
Every so often I check back in on AdWords. Quite some time ago now the company “bifurcated” AdWords into a simplified “Starter Edition” and a...
YouTube CBS Channel a Smart Idea
Here’s what the shape of some of the future content and ad deals will look like on video sites (similar to what’s happening over at...
LinkedIn Adds Services Directory
Yes, business networking site LinkedIn is now in the yellow pages business. The site has added a “services” directory. It’s a logical extension of LinkedIn’s...
Work.com : Small Business Portals Heating Up Again
Work.com : Small Business Portals Heating Up Again Back when I was part of the founding editorial team at AllBusiness.com, now about seven years ago...