More 3-D Maps
PagesJaunes has launched its anticipated 3-D mapping engine in Paris. The Praized Blog has the scoop. Our past coverage of 3-D mapping is here, here and here.
Sneak Preview of IAC’s NYC Headquarters
The L.A. Times today provided a sneak preview of the Frank Gehry-designed, $150 million headquarters for Barry Diller's IAC along the West Side highway in NYC. I'll look forward to visiting. Here are pictures of the building from IAC’s site,…
The 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods
Tired of using "San Francisco" as the metaphor for "all things Internet?" How about focusing on "bloggy neighborhoods"? Beth Lawton at NAA New Media Fed alerted the readership to a list of Top 10 bloggy neighborhoods compiled by Outside.in, the…
MapQuest Teams Up With OnStar
MapQuest today announced a partnership with GM's OnStar division that will allow online users to send maps and turn-by-turn spoken directions to their OnStar devices. This falls in line with the cross-platform personalization that we’re seeing a lot of in…
HP Buys Logoworks, Entree Into SMEs
HP is serious about working with small businesses and announced today that it is buying Logoworks, the disrupting producer of logos for small businesses. It will be a great acquisition for HP. When it launched in 2001, the premise behind…
TargetSpot: The Spot Runner of Radio
A new ad serving technology for Internet broadcasters launched this week with funding from Union Square Ventures, CBS Radio and Oddcast. Known as TargetSpot, the technology will allow advertisers to create buy and place their own advertising in online streaming…
Local.com Launches Free Listings
Local.com announced today that it will launch a basic version of its Local Promote service for small businesses. The full version of Local Promote ($39.95 per month) is a tool offered to businesses to establish a Web presence with a…
Yell Takes Hit With Annnouncement on U.S. Growth
The U.K.-based publisher Yell Group announced today that its U.S. operation, Yellow Book, is seeing a sharp decline in its organic growth rate, the accumulated result of too much competition in the U.S. market. The company is projecting a 3…
Media News Allegations Against Par Ridder
Why watch "American Idol" tonight? As an alternative, I recommend that you download the lawsuit filed by MediaNews Group against Par Ridder, the former publisher of St. Paul's Pioneer Press, and son of Tony Ridder, who bolted across the river…
AT&T’s Payne Featured in U.S. News Article
U.S. News & World Report features a short interview with AT&T Advertising & Publishing CEO Denny Payne in this week’s print edition (available online). Not much ground was broken in the interview, but Payne got across the usual major points…
WSJ: Newspaper Web Sites No Hail Mary
Inside the newspaper industry, the notion of the Web as a Hail Mary pass has never been fully embraced. But last week's earning reports from the major newspaper chains is a bracing cup of cold water. An article in today's…
IBM: Through 2010, Traditional Media Dominates
It is not especially surprising, but media shift is being accelerated by new devices, expanding media channels, user-generated content and aggregation. IBM Global Business Services tries to make sense of all of it in a new report: "Navigating the Media…
RHD a Takeover Target?
We came across this on BusinessWeek Friday. The article raises the possibility that R.H. Donnelley, enjoying a nice run up of its share price, may be the target of a takeover or leveraged buyout. These stories pop up every now…
Freedom’s Video-Centric Paper Sees Boost
A few months ago, Freedom Interactive President Michael Matthieu said he was "tearing out the infrastructure" at his newspapers and TV stations and making everything Web-centric. Now we see the first tangible results. At The Shelby Star, Freedom’s 15,000 circulation…
Google’s One-Two Punch
A new Interactive Local Media Advisory looks at Google’s moves over the past week to continue its march toward becoming a one-stop shop advertising powerhouse across all media. They include of course the massive DoubleClick acquisition and the deal with…
The Importance of Doing Your Homework
Knowledge@Wharton published an article Wednesday that uses some Kelsey Group information. It's a mini case study titled "All Politics Is Local and So Are Sales Leads: The Birth of an Internet Search Company." The subject is a company called Natpal…
Breakfast With Google’s Vint Cerf
This morning, I joined 500 or so members of the San Diego Venture Group to hear Vint Cerf, the tech legend who was instrumental in the Internet's creation in the 1960s. More recently, he's been working as a very high-profile…
Yell Exits Brazil Market
Last week, Yell Group sold its Brazilian directory operation (TPI Brazil) to regional rival Publicar for US$8.5 million. This was a challenging market for Yell, which inherited the operation when it acquired the Spanish publisher TPI last year. Yell continues…
Virginia Tech and MySpace
We all share the grief in the tragedy at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, but it is especially gnawing on me. Over the years that I lived in Virginia, I watched with pride as the Hokies became a first-rate school and…
NAB ’07: Mulling Over TV Stations Role on the Web
For media "old-timers," the annual NAB show is synonymous for where-it-all-happens. Year after year, the masses of media professionals still come, with this year's edition attracting 108,000 people from around the world. I went yesterday, mostly to see how TV…