Monthly Archives: November 2005

Local content aggregator and affiliate network AreaGuides.net has been acquired by Denver-based Local Matters. This is the first consumer-facing property in the Local Matters portfolio, and CEO Perry Evans expects to substantially enhance the interface and user experience of the…

Verizon, BellSouth and SBC are madly developing IPTV to, among other things, compete with cable companies, whose bundled Internet, phone and TV "triple play" is siphoning away telephony and potential DSL customers. While most IPTV services have been delayed or…

Everyone in the local search biz has said something like, "Once there's a laptop in the kitchen, then . . ." (fill in the blank with your own traditional media doomsday scenario). Most people don't know how to set up…

Here's the U.S. Census Department's 2003 data on household computer and Internet adoption by state. The numbers are going to be larger now. But it's interesting to see the breakdown. More data here.

In a very interesting bid to revive its fortunes and its consumer brand, LookSmart has launched 160 vertical sites on everything from sports to city guides (here's New York, for example). The content comes from Furl, Web crawling and LookSmart's…

Here's a piece in The N.Y. Times that says SBC will take the venerable name AT&T once the acquisition is approved. One response: Will the AT&T brand support the kinds of Internet-age services that SBC is offering and wants to…

In the spirit of the season (Halloween), the people at Consumer Reports WebWatch published a scary report about fear online: "Leap of Faith: Using the Internet Despite the Dangers." The report, based on a telephone survey of roughly 1,500 adult…