Yearly Archives: 2006

The appeal of Sling Media's Slingbox is that you can use it to tap into your home television's broadcast feed from remote locations (great for catching a local sportscast if you are on the road). It has introduced the term…

Search Engine Journal reports on a few Google Base sightings.

Google has added a social tagging feature to Google Reader. After setting up RSS feeds in the reader, users can tag articles or Web pages and share them with friends via e-mail or syndicate them on a blog. Just as…

If you want to see something pretty cool, go to Loki.com and download Skyhook Wireless' new Local Search toolbar. It's the first toolbar built around Local and it's got a bunch of really useful features: It can automatically locate your…

Here's the press release.

Cairo is a local shopping aggregator that was crawling ShopLocal's content as one of its sources. ShopLocal sued and yesterday a settlement was announced: Cairo agreed to an order of the court preventing it from making further robotic or other…

Study after study confirms what we've known for a long, long time: Consumers do research online but make the overwhelming majority of purchases offline. This article in MediaPost, profiling a study done by comScore for Google, offers yet more evidence.…

AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre seems to be intent upon pursuing access fees for high-bandwidth sites/networks. This article discussing his keynote at the TelecomNEXT show in Las Vegas quotes him as dismissing the torrent of criticism that has come his way…

Here's a Hollywood Reporter piece about the challenges of social networks (a lot of rehash but a good general overview). The new bit is the mention of GoingOn (we did a quick post in July), which is a social networking…

According to this piece from CNET, Microsoft is seeking to buy Vexcel. This deal appears to be about a range of things all of which point to enhanced mapping (including 3-D mapping), which is where Erik Jorgenson said (at last…

Google Finance, an impressive collection of tools, news and resources, was supposed to launch at 12:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday. However, it's 12:27 and the site isn't yet up. Because I only got a sneak peek and wasn't able to…

Joga.com is an invitation-only social networking site from Nike and Google for soccer/football fans (you first need a gmail/google account). It's MySpace for soccer and it may be a "template" for other corporate promotional/vertical social networking ventures for Google and…

So I've now scanned the complaint (reminding me of why I left litigation). This case appears to be substantially about lost AdSense revenues:On March 19, 2005, Plaintiff KSC's Website kinderstart.com suffered a cataclysmic fall of 70% or more in its…

According to this WSJ article (sub. req'd), cable companies and telcos have stopped trying to resist muni Wi-Fi and have jumped on the bandwagon: AT&T Inc., the nation's largest telecom provider, put in a bid March 7 to build a…

The N.Y. Times' Bob Tedeschi profiles (reg. req'd) Microsoft's classified marketplace Expo and explores how and whether it will compete with Craigslist. Garry Wiseman, the product manager behind Expo, will be speaking at Drilling Down on the panel "The Ultimate…

The Mercury News is a daily newspaper that publishes in the heart of Silicon Valley. It was Knight Ridder's "hometown" paper and one of its flagships. Now it's being sold by McClatchy. SiliconBeat alerts us to the "Save the Merc"…

U.K.-based KinderStart.com, a "search engine" for parents of young children, has sued Google on the basis that its organic search ranking apparently declined in March 2005, allegedly because it was unfairly "penalized" by Google. According to this Reuters article, the…

Following the footsteps of Topix ... Yahoo! Launches a Local News Beta. Here's an example of San Francisco; here's New York. In New York, Yahoo! gets its news from myriad sources, not just newspapers: New York Times, Newsday, WABC 7,…