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Sometimes It’s All About Local and Print

  • November 21, 2006
  • John Kelsey
  • Yellow Pages

Last week I had the opportunity to attend Yellow Pages Today!, hosted by Peter Buxton and Jesper Simonsen in Vienna. The event, titled "Staying Ahead in Search," was well conceived and executed. The hosts often made the point that directories…

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OJRs Poor Report Card for Community Nets

  • November 21, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Community networks, or "we networks," are so poorly used that they tend to really be "me networks." That's the gist of a new article in Annenberg's Online Journalism Review by Tom Grubisich, who revisits the subject a little more than…

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Details on Yahoo! Deal With Newspapers

  • November 20, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

The newspaper recruitment deal with Yahoo! first disclosed here in an Oct. 24 post has finally been confirmed, with some interesting twists. The deal puts in place a recruitment network of seven companies with 176 newspapers in 13 of the…

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Exec Changes at Insider Pages, Merchant Circle

  • November 20, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

A favorite hobby of mine is reading the industry's tea leaves via the comings and goings of execs at different local companies. Today I am mulling over the departure of Insider Pages VP of Business Development Andrew Shotland and Merchant…

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Citysearch Pays Google $100 Million a Year?

  • November 16, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

A dirty secret in the search wars is that you can basically "buy" enough traffic via Google AdWords and other sources to jump to the top of the usage charts. In a recent ZDNet column, Donna Bogatin implied that Citysearch…

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Richard Rosen’s Primer on Call Measurement

  • November 16, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Return on investment for advertising is generally measured by local businesses in terms of phone calls generated, call duration and/or store visits. That isn't changing soon. But for local ad sellers and their advertisers, it remains a challenge to figure…

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Yahoo! Maps Gets More Interactive

  • November 16, 2006
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

Yahoo! Maps unveiled a host of new features today. Unlike the novel and graphically rich Microsoft Visual Earth 3-D announced last week, Yahoo!'s improvements are solely functional (although Visual Earth 3-D has a hefty balance of form and function, the…

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InfoSpace Gets Hip to Online Video

  • November 16, 2006
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

InfoSpace-owned Dogpile announced today that it will partner with video search site Blinkx. Blinkx will bring enhanced video search capabilities to Dogpile and other InfoSpace metasearch properties, including WebCrawler and Webfetch. Blinkx has indexed more than 6 million hours of…

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The Washington Post to Revamp Verticals

  • November 15, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

The Washington Post, following Gannett's "Information Center" approach toward the newsroom, says it will beef up several vertical sections in print and for the Web, including Health, Food and Home. A staff memo from Executive Editor Len Downie Jr., republished…

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InfoSpace Launches ’Kid-Friendly’ Destination

  • November 14, 2006
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

InfoSpace today launched Zoo.com, a search engine for kids that filters out sexually explicit content. It does this by filtering out search results that contain any of a list of 50,000 adult words or phrases. It also prioritizes search results…

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Modern Mom, Baskin Robbins in Local Launch

  • November 14, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Modern Mom, a Los Angeles-based pioneer in the increasingly crowded "online moms" space, is launching 12 city guides on Wednesday (Nov. 15). Previews of L.A., San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C., are already up. These…

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The Online Video Picture Comes Into Focus

  • November 13, 2006
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

There is clearly a lot of activity in the online video space, but there are still many question marks about how to effectively monetize the experience, and how local advertising could eventually come into the picture. Both of these are…

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Outside.in Head Talks ’Place Blogs’ (and More)

  • November 12, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

First we had Topix aggregating local news and events from thousands of sites. Now we have Outside.in trying to pull off the same idea using hyper-local blogs as a primary source. Steven Johnson co-created the site with John Geraci. He…

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Backfence Update With CEO Susan DeFife

  • November 9, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Backfence may be the biggest laboratory out there for community networks. It reads like a newspaper written by citizens, and its hyper-local coverage features community-by-community Yellow Pages, special sections, business reviews, event calendars, classifieds, blogs and user-generated photos. The company…

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Meeker: Google and eBay Have Local Traction

  • November 9, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Very few people are as compelling as Morgan Stanely's Mary Meeker in arguing that the transition of media and commerce dollars to the Internet is under way. For sure, she understands, and anticipates, the macro. At the Web 2.0 conference…

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Live From the Dow Jones Consumer Tech Ventures Show

  • November 8, 2006
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

I'm down in San Jose at the Consumer Technology Ventures conference, which has featured some engaging panel discussions. The highlight so far for me has been the luncheon keynote yesterday by prolific Wall Street Journal personal tech columnist Walt Mossberg…

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Zvents Pushes Deeper in Newspapers

  • November 7, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Zvents, a Web 2.0 app that enables local sites to manage events, including events inputted by users, announced today that it has received $7 million from several VC firms, including Vantage Point Venture Partners (a funder of ReachLocal). It also…

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AT&T/BellSouth Merger: Make a Decision

  • November 7, 2006
  • John Kelsey
  • Yellow Pages

The person who headed up the 1.1 million-employee BellSystem when it was broken up is a Virginia gentleman by the name of Charles Lee Brown. He retired to Princeton, NJ, and I once asked him why he gave up the…

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Microsoft Comes to San Francisco

  • November 7, 2006
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

Last night I had the chance to attend Microsoft's launch event for Virtual Earth 3-D in San Francisco. It was a well-organized event that included introductory remarks by Microsoft GM of Search and Mapping Erik Jorgensen and the GM of…

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Gannett ’Info Center’ Designed to Attract New Advertisers

  • November 6, 2006
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher with 110 titles, is rolling out "information center" guidelines that it calls "the newsroom of the future." In its essence, the Information Center downplays hard news in favor of more community touch points. It…

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