Google Real Estate
Shimon Sandler was able to take a few screenshots of Google's new real estate engine in the short time it was live yesterday. John Battelle points out that it is simply the latest integration of Google Base. The Internet Stock…
MySpace: Hot or Not?
Om Malik reports on the staggering growth of MySpace traffic, while this Guardian Unlimited article challenges how the site will make money in the face of recent bad PR, lack of a (clear public) monetization strategy and the historic failures…
MapQuest Navigator Launches
The mobile content market is heating up, and lots of announcements will come out of the CTIA Wireless conference this week. This Washington Post article provides a good overview of the mobile TV space. MapQuest, meanwhile, launched a new application…
AOL: the New AOL
AOL has officially changed its name to, well, AOL. No more America Online. Like Ask.com's dumping of Jeeves, the move appears to fall in line with AOL's continuing efforts to shed associations with its former self (something it should do…
Monday News Bits
There is a lot happening today. Here is a quick wrap-up and we'll dig deeper into individual topics later. —Washington Post tech columnist Leslie Walker has a good piece today about the growth of local, blogging and social media Web…
Yell in Final Running for TPI
Yell and two private equity consortia are reported to be the final round bidders on Spain's Telefnica Publicidad e Informacin. This excerpt is from the Financial Times. UK telephone directory group Yell and two consortia comprising four private equity firms…
Amdocs Buys Stibo
Amdocs announced today that it has acquired the Danish firm Stibo. This appears to be a way for Amdocs to get deeper into the European market. Here is the announcement.
Auctioning the YP
Lots of pick-ups on an AP article that talks about something Verizon's Eric Chandler discussed at last week's Drilling Down conference, namely the addition of a pay-per-phone-call feature in the print Yellow Pages. We will write about this notion in…
IPTV and Triple Play
My explanations of IPTV are sometimes met with blank stares or looks of confusion, at which point I just revert to "You'll be able to watch television on your computer." But this isn't really what IPTV is. An important distinction…