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Yearly Archives: 2007

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EBay Refocuses on Classifieds With U.S. Launch of Kijiji

  • July 5, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Online/Interactive

eBay has quietly launched a U.S. version of Kijiji, a free classifieds service that began in February 2005 and is now serving 17 million users in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Taiwan, Austria, Switzerland, and India. Kijiji, which means…

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Concerns About Selective Technology

  • July 3, 2007
  • John Kelsey
  • Devices, News, online, Newspapers, Online/Interactive, Traditional Media, Yellow Pages, Print

New research from Edison Media shows that television (broadcast, cable, satellite, premium) and the Internet are the most essential media to respondents' lives in 2007. Both radio and newspapers declined between the current survey and one conducted in 2002. According…

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Merchant Circle Reports 140,000 Sign-Ups, Continues Marketing Tactics

  • July 2, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Hyper-Local, Online/Interactive, SMBs

Merchant Circle threw itself a party last week at Nola’s in Palo Alto to celebrate a year in business and registration by 140,000 small businesses. I’m on their Evite list, so I knew about it. It is probably a good…

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The iPhone and Local Search, Take Two

  • July 2, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Mobile, Online/Interactive

You may have noticed we have implemented a new blogging platform that has a richer interface and more multimedia capabilities, categories and other important attributes that have become standards in the blogosphere. Part of that transition, however, involves somewhat of a…

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YPG-NZ Names New Executive Management

  • July 2, 2007
  • Michael Taylor
  • International Markets, Online/Interactive, Personnel Moves, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, Print

After four months of ownership, Yellow Pages Group of New Zealand’s owners are moving forward with the creation of a new executive management team. Among the moves, according to New Zealand’s m-net: “Dudley Enoka, who was general manager, will become the ex-Telecom…

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HM Capital Acquires Remaining U.S. Portion of PDC

  • July 2, 2007
  • Michael Taylor
  • Mergers & Acquisitions, Online/Interactive, Personnel Moves, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, Independent, Yellow Pages, Print

HM Capital Partners has agreed to acquire Phone Directories Co. operations based in Orem, Utah. PDC publishes directories in 18 states covering 137 titles. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  According to a prepared statement by Peter Brodsky, a…

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Quigo Sees Local Boost From Time Warner Deal

  • July 1, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Ad Sales, Advertising Networks, Contextual Advertising, Newspapers, Online/Interactive, Paid Search, Verticals, Video, online

For the past couple of years, Quigo's contextual network product, AdSonar, has been a steady alternative to Google and Yahoo! for local media companies (as have competitors such as ContextWeb and FAST AdMomentum). The company currently has more than 200…

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No Change in U.S. Yellow Pages Forecast

  • June 29, 2007
  • John Kelsey
  • Forecasts, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, Print

Universal McCann has been the definitive word in advertising forecasts for more years than most of us have been alive, and team leader Bob Coen has been consistently conservative yet accurate. In December, he predicted that Yellow Pages would come…

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TKG Data and Analysis: Weekly Recap

  • June 29, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

In case you missed any posts this week, here is the TKG blog highlight reel. Click below to read each post in full. Newspapers and Home Pages: Getting Personal Business 2.0's Erick Shoenfeld writes an exclusive on his blog on…

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Weber’s FAQ on Community Journalism

  • June 29, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Hyper-Local, News, online, Newspapers, Online/Interactive

New West is a different concept from other community sites. Started two years ago by Jonathan Weber, the former editor of The Industry Standard (the dot-com era trade bible), the seven-person site covers all of the Rocky Mountain region from…

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Newspapers and Home Pages: Getting Personal

  • June 28, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • News, online, Newspapers, Online/Interactive, Social

Business 2.0's Erick Shoenfeld writes an exclusive on his blog on the next version of the Pageflakes personalized home page. It looks to be a compelling and elegant product that should meet the rising demand for personalized features online. It…

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Free DA to Improve Video Search?

  • June 28, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Directory Assistance, Mobile, Online/Interactive, Video, online

The NewTeeVee blog has some interesting thoughts following comments made by Google's Marissa Mayer at the Searchonomics conference going on today. Google's free directory assistance product, Goog-411 (past commentary here), will assist in helping Google develop speech to text ability,…

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First Impressions of AT&T U-Verse

  • June 28, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • IPTV, Online/Interactive

After a five-hour installation job – apparently, many are longer – I am now among the first in San Diego County to have AT&T U-Verse, a new fiber-based service with a node down the street. They are definitely not calling…

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iPhone: The Reviews Are In

  • June 27, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Devices, Mobile, Online/Interactive

A handful of official iPhone reviews from professional product reviewers came out today. The verdict: It lives up to the hype. There are still lots of possible flaws, such as slow speeds on AT&T's EDGE data network, but the overall…

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Marchex Officially Launches 100,000 Local Search Sites

  • June 27, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Verticals

Summary Local and vertical online search company Marchex today announced the rather bold move of launching 100,000 local search sites. Yes, that's right, 100,000. The move represents the culmination of years of work in assembling a portfolio of URLs and…

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Avvo Acts on User Feedback

  • June 26, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Verticals

Avvo CEO Mark Britton posted today on the Avvo blog about a change the site will make to its flagship rating system, which we wrote about here. The automatically generated rating system was getting questioned by many lawyers and users…

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Ingenio Releases Mobile Data

  • June 26, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Call Monetization, Mobile, Online/Interactive

Summary Pay-per-call provider Ingenio and market research firm Harris Interactive released results of a survey (n = 4,123) today that shows interesting data around consumer preferences for mobile devices and advertising. These are important data, as any embryonic area requires…

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Blinkx Releases AdHoc, Forms New Partnerships

  • June 25, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

As reported last week, Blinkx today officially unveiled its new contextual ad matching technology for video content, known as AdHoc. The company has also partnered with both Lycos and InfoSpace to provide its video search technology as an additional feature…

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iPhone Madness: Let the Countdown Begin

  • June 25, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Devices, Mobile, Online/Interactive

The week of the iPhone's launch has begun, and the needle on the hype-o-meter has begun to twitch. The official launch is on Friday, and you can expect a fair amount of pushing and shoving as everyone tries to get…

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Watch Out! Local.com Patent Covers Local Crawling

  • June 25, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Google, Online/Interactive, Paid Search, Yahoo!

We can argue somewhere else whether the U.S. Patent Office is helping to foster innovation in 2007 or hinder it. But the bottom line is that yet another wide-ranging, fairly obvious patent has been issued – this time to Local.com…

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