Tuesday News Roundup

Lots of interesting things have happened so far this week, mostly in the online video, social networking, and online news and classifieds spaces. Here is a quick recap:—Many of the monetization challenges that face MySpace (analyzed in yesterday's post) also…

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Harmonic Convergence?

Here at the YPA convention, a panel discussion featuring independent Yellow Pages publishers unveiled one of the worst-kept secrets in the industry. There is a very early effort afoot to combine the three major North American industry trade associations into…

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Dispatch From Orlando

The Magic is Back, and don't let anyone tell you different.Here at the Yellow Pages Association's annual confab, there is a general air of optimism about the industry. It's sort of the same feeling people get when they anticipate a…

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Video News Roundup

A lot has been happenning this week in the online video space: —AT&T announced yesterday that it will partner with IPTV content aggregator and platform provider Akimbo. The partnership will bring together Akimbo's movie and TV downloads and AT&T's Homezone…

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MindlessPetition.org

So the news alert comes in over the PR Newswire: "Yellow Pages Face Extinction Due to PaperlessPetition.org." Using Earth Day 2006 as its excuse, PaperlessPetition.org essentially suggests that publishers eliminate print Yellow Pages in favor of Internet directories. The author…

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New Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! has launched a new mail interface that appears to carry the title Yahoo! Mail Beta. It was advertised to me as AT&T Yahoo! Mail, as I am an AT&T broadband customer who is served by the content partnership between…

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