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AgendiZe Releases Video API

  • June 17, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Video, online

AgendiZe today announced it will launch an API for Yellow Pages publishers to enhance the videos they are shooting for small businesses, and hosting on their sites. The "video to action" API lets publishers create overlays for videos that bring…

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Now Playing on Your Phone: Video on Demand Classifieds

  • June 16, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Classifieds, Display Advertising, Online/Interactive, User-Generated Content, Video, online

Classifieds have made their way to video (See RealPeopleRealStuff). But how about video on mobile phones? That’s a new effort being tried out in Portugal, where high-speed 3G phones are prevalent, but less than 40 percent of the population has Internet…

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Jivox Raises $10 Million

  • June 16, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Video, online

Self-serve video ad provider Jivox announced a $10 million round today. We wrote about the company, which lets advertisers create short ads using stock video, a few months ago. It also distributes these ads through a publisher network, which has grown…

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TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap

  • June 16, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Yellow Pages

Here are last week’s highlights from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. On How Many Sites Do SMBs Advertise? The folks at Palore sent me a new data set…

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On How Many Sites Do SMBs Advertise?

  • June 12, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

The folks at Palore sent me a new data set they're releasing tomorrow. You might remember, the company recently changed its business model to focus on all the granular data it was scraping from local search sites. Since then it's…

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Conference Gets New Name That Reflects Mission

  • June 12, 2008
  • Charles Laughlin
  • Conferences, Online/Interactive, Yellow Pages, Internet, Yellow Pages, Print

Today The Kelsey Group unveiled a new name and brand for our September conference. What used to be known as Directory Driven Commerce is now Directional Media Strategies. In most respects, nothing has changed. The conference is still Sept. 15-17…

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Auto Repair Site RepairPal Launches

  • June 12, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Verticals

New auto repair information resource RepairPal went live today. The site steps into an undeserved market segment by providing information about the user's specific car and its maintenance needs. One central use case, for example, is to check what a…

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Seattle Smackdown: The PI Bites Back

  • June 12, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

Following Steve Ballmer's comments last week that print newspapers will be dead in 10 years, Seattle PI columnist Bill Virgin retorts that it will be Microsoft's weakened position that is more evident. He uses Vista's weak reception, the Wii's dominance…

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The 3G iPhone and Local

  • June 11, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Mobile, Online/Interactive

Lots of talk about the 3G iPhone this week. We'll see lots of local applications developed that make use of faster speeds and GPS capability, as speculated. The $199 price tag will also make it more mainstream friendly than before.…

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Main Street Under Attack … Again

  • June 11, 2008
  • Neal Polachek
  • Online/Interactive

Ran across this interesting piece via Topix that was produced by the local ABC7 affiliate here in the Bay Area. The story uncovers a nervousness among local SMBs that the Internet is increasingly having an impact on their business outlook.…

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Barton’s Newest Vertical: Recruitment Site Glassdoor.com

  • June 11, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Classifieds, Online/Interactive, User-Generated Content, Verticals, Web 2.0

Rich Barton -- Mr. Vertical -- has added a new recruitment-oriented vertical to a lineup that now includes Expedia (sold), Zillow and Avvo. The new effort is Glassdoor.com, which provides recruitment-related information. It solicits and publishes detailed salary and bonus…

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NY Times Goes After SMB Market via AdReady

  • June 10, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Advertising Networks, Contextual Advertising, Display Advertising, Newspapers, Online/Interactive, SMBs

The New York Times is set to recruit small-business advertisers via a deal with AdReady, the Seattle-based ad agency that provides a choice of 600 free templates for banners, customization tools and usage reports. The Times will recruit its own…

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IPhone 2.0 Video and Photo Apps From AP and TypePad

  • June 9, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Blogging, Newspapers, Online/Interactive, User-Generated Content, Video, online

Among the developers of iPhone applications is The Associated Press. Featured during the relaunch of iPhone 2.0 today, AP’s Benjamin Moss, director of mobile products, said AP developed an iPhone app for its Mobile News Network in "just a few…

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YPG-NZ Says Yellow to Mobile

  • June 9, 2008
  • Michael Taylor
  • Devices, Directory Assistance, International Markets, Mobile, Online/Interactive, Partnerships, Yellow Pages

Yellow Pages Group New Zealand has announced the debut of “Yellow mobile” on the Telecom and Vodafone Live! networks.  According to New Zealand’s Business to Business magazine: "Yellow Pages Group Digital Media Director Blair Glubb said Yellow mobile will complement…

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Marchex Unifies Local, National Ad Networks

  • June 9, 2008
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive

Marchex has launched a new ad platform called Adhere. Essentially this brings together the company's OpenList local content network with the premium publishers in its IndustryBrains network under one PPC platform. The biggest driver for the new platform was to simplify…

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CitySquares Sees Traction; Expands to New England, New York

  • June 8, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Classifieds, Hyper-Local, Online/Interactive

Boston-based CitySquares, which just celebrated its second anniversary, is getting about 70,000 unique visitors per month and now has a base of 700 advertisers, averaging $1,200 per year, reports CEO Ben Saren. He believes they have even more potential via…

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MetroSeeq Launches: ‘Search Engine for Promotions’ (via Google Maps)

  • June 5, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Devices, Google, Mapping, Online/Interactive

Consumers looking to map out a Saturday morning errand run or a Saturday night bar-hop -- and find out about any special offers along the way -- can now do so easily via MetroSeeq, a Portland, Oregon, start-up by Intel-vet…

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Wambolt Leaves YPG

  • June 5, 2008
  • Charles Laughlin
  • Online/Interactive, Personnel Moves, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, Print

Scott Wambolt has left his job as Yellow Pages Group's senior vice president of sales, citing a desire to "pursue other career opportunities." According to the press release announcing Wambolt's departure, YPG will move to a flatter sales organization with the three…

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IAC Sells Off Entertainment Publications Inc.

  • June 5, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Coupons/Deals, Online/Interactive

IAC has sold Entertainment Publications Inc., publisher of The Entertainment Book, to MH Equity Investors. The deal puts $135 million on the books for IAC, although MH Equity, an Indianapolis company, probably paid only a portion of that in cash.…

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Ballmer on Future of Print

  • June 5, 2008
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Microsoft, Newspapers, Online/Interactive

In a new WashingtonPost.com video, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks on a wide variety of topics, including the future of print. “In the next 10 years, the world of media companies will be turned upside down,” he says. “There will…

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