New Google SERP Display
No time to discuss now. Check out a screenshot of the test. More to come later. Precious little additional info in this article.
Music.Google.com?
As Google more and more becomes a "media company," media opportunities cannot be missed. Here's Gary Price speculating about and discussing the seemingly impending Google Music. Music and other potential vertical domains raise the broader question of how Google intends…
Rich Media Ads on Google?
Blogger Jennifer Slegg uncovered today that Google is experimenting with rich media ads. The undisclosed plan will, according to Slegg's sources, involve site targeted campaigns (rather than contextual) and have interstitials (those that precede a link's destination), expanding ads and…
IPTV in 10 Million Homes in Five Years?
Microsoft will be an integral part of the IPTV revolution, running the software that will reside in the set-top boxes of IPTV systems for Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth. As in the PC market, it has made a very smart and…
Bullish on InfoSpace
I've heard it occasionally said about InfoSpace, which owns metasearch engine Dogpile, "what do they want to be when they grow up?" In other words, what's their business model? Here's a very bullish piece, originally published in The Motley Fool,…
MyYahoo! to Get Push It Deserves?
MyYahoo! is a powerful strategic asset that has been languishing to some degree. Now Om Malik reports that it may be ready to rise to the level of attention that it deserves internally. It's really a potential personal dashboard for…
TV Advertisers Cling to Oscars, SuperBowl
As TV audiences fragment, advertisers are clinging to large-scale "live TV" events that still draw large audiences, i.e., the "Oscars" and the Super Bowl. There's something of a paradox going on: even as audiences shrink, TV networks (in certain cases)…
My Yahoo! Addendum
To add to Greg's comments on the strengths and potential of My Yahoo!, see our post earlier this month about Yahoo!'s expressed plans for the personal hub.
Smartphone Dilemma
The other day I was considering updating my old "candybar" cellphone. I went into the Sprint/Nextel retail store and began playing around with numerous new and advanced smartphones. I was all set to pull the trigger on buying a new…
Bad Signal for Yell on Rate Cap
This article appeared today in the Guardian Newspaper in the U.K., regarding the ongoing review of the rate cap imposed on Yell in the United Kingdom. The Competition Commission has issued a report indicating it may extend or expand the…
Shareholders OK RHD-Dex
It's official. The RHD-Dex Media merger has been approved by shareholders. Here is the release. The deal, which combines two of the top five U.S. incumbent publishers, is expected to formally close at the end of this month. Here is…
Classifieds TV: Interesting but Flawed
Late to the party on this one . . . but here's a MediaPost story (reg. req'd) from Monday about the SF Chronicle (owned by Hearst) launching a cable TV show devoted to classifieds advertising, which will also be streamed…
PEW: Internet Strengthening Social Nets
A new report from the good folks at the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that the Internet (and e-mail) are increasingly relied up to manage "offlline" social relations/networks and that, in addition, more and more people are relying…
NY Times Revenues/Subscribers Growing
The Internet Stock Blog has a summary of the NY Times earnings call (revenues up 30 percent in Q4)—there are lots of datapoints about traffic/users, etc. And the ranks/rolls of TimesSelect paying subscribers (I'm one) continues to grow. I was…
Craigslist Adds Another Paying Vertical
This is really old news, but Craigslist confirmed that it will be charging for apartment rentals in New York. This adds a second category, the other being jobs, to its source of revenues. I believe that Peter Zollman's Classified Intelligence…
March Madness: the Next Live 8?
PaidContent reports today that CBS Digital president Larry Kramer announced the network will offer all of its NCAA March Madness coverage online for free. The coverage will be ad supported, and Kramer likened it to AOLs Live 8 coverage which…
eBay Building Pan-Media Platform?
It would appear so, according to this article in MediaPost (reg. req'd): On Tuesday, some of the nation's biggest advertisers got a pitch from a surprise media buying "solutions provider:" online auction service eBay. Details of the presentation, and the…
Yahoo! Search Not ’Giving Up’
Here's the Yahoo! Search response to the "controversy" created yesterday by the Bloomberg article in which Yahoo! CFO Susan Decker seemed to be saying Yahoo! was perfectly happy being No. 2 (to Google) in search: [W]e thought it made sense…
What is News 2.0?
Om Malik has an interesting take on what constitutes the term "News 2.0" (the latest phrase within the Internet buzzword parlance that started with "Web 2.0"). There are many high-traffic news sites out there, he contends, that don't create any…