Author: jgaynor

WiMax is coming to Wisconsin (and then beyond). Some form of broadband will likely cover almost 100 percent of the U.S. within 3 to 5 years. Why? Because there are many competitors seeking to provide that access. That's also why…

What started out as an act of resistance toward the Bush Administration's effort to obtain porn-related search data, has now turned into something of a PR coup for Google. I don't think this was a calculated move but there's a…

I've really come to apprecitate Fridays as a slower news day. But here's a fun local story that originally appeared in the New York Post. Yahoo! personals and Starbucks are reportedly hooking up to provide $10 Starbucks gift cards to…

Yesterday it was revealed that AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! complied with Justice Department subpoenas to turn over search data. Google has made a very high profile statement that it will not. Here's more coverage of the issue in the NY…

That may be premature and a bit of a stretch, but the San Francisco-based live music and community site has quietly generated a solid business and extremely loyal following without funding and totally under the radar. Founded about eight years…

In the context of discussing some high level personnel exiting Yahoo! for various startups, the Search Engine Watch blog identifies a new (to me) local directory/search site in the UK, Touch Local. Touch Local allows users to search locally and…

There's a new consumer paradigm emerging, one in which users have almost total control over the media they consume and how, when and where they consume it. How advertisers respond to that new disruptive consumer behavior model and the increasing…

That's according to a study by Yahoo! Search Marketing covered in MediaPost (reg. req'd) and by Search Engine Journal. This study of VoIP awareness/research by consumers, though not yet a mainstream consumer category, shows that search is used early in…

NetImperative reports, among other things, that Microsoft will be seeking (at some undetermined point) to add video ads to PPC. As ContactAtOnce! has already shown, you can put dynamic ads and pop-ups behind a PPC campaign. Why couldn't one also…

Forget the ROKR. Apple's trademark applications suggest a mobile phone/iPod hybrid. Why do we care about this? Because an iPod phone that also permitted Internet access (as one would expect it to) could be the breakthrough device that would unlock…

eBay reported record quarterly revenues but was the latest victim of the Wall Street inflated expectations game. More on the numbers from InternetNews.com. Also, Om Malik takes a look at Skype revenues (mostly from outside the U.S.).

There was public discussion by the telcos and perhaps other broadband providers about trying to charge fees/taxes/tolls to the Googles and Vonages of the world for the high bandwidth usage they directly and indirectly cause. Om Malik points to a…

Nielsen reported that total search volume was flat at 5.1 billion (vs. October). The following were the search market share numbers: Google: 46% Yahoo!: 23% MSN Search: 11% AOL: 7%Here are the November comScore numbers:Google: 39.8% Yahoo!: 29.5% MSN Search:…

Here's an important post from John Battelle about the Bush administration's efforts to get at users' online behavior and search data. Battelle excerpts a San Jose Mercury News article on the Justice Dept. efforts: In court papers filed in U.S.…

Here's new data from Keynote. Briefly, here are some general and local highlights: For the fourth consecutive wave of the Keynote study, Google topped the Keynote Customer Experience Rankings, an aggregate ranking of leading search engines based on an analysis…

Tribune Interactive has signed a deal with WorldNow, according to an article in today's MediaPost (reg. req'd), to provide streaming video for all Tribune's online properties (newspapers and TV). WorldNow also operates the Local Media Network, which offers video and…

Newspaper giant Gannett has invested in free DA/mobile local search provider 4INFO. Here's more detail in the release. Gannett properties will gain distribution on the service as part of the deal.

So Apple missed too (net income doubles but falls short of estimates) ... But the company's shares weren't off as much as Yahoo! yesterday after missing analysts' estimates by A PENNY. There were blog postings here and there and a…

The irrepressible Kevin Ryan has a column all about local today (roundup of recent developments). LiveDeal.ca (a joint venture with Canada's Torstar, which owns book publishing and newspaper properties) went live this week. The site is being integrated into Torstar's…

I'm late to this news this morning ... But Google makes another sort of local push ... into radio, buying dMarc Broadcasting of Newport Beach, California. There's a reported downpayment of just over $100 million and more than $1 billion…