If you want to see something pretty cool, go to Loki.com and download Skyhook Wireless' new Local Search toolbar. It's the first toolbar built around Local and it's got a bunch of really useful features: It can automatically locate your…
Cairo is a local shopping aggregator that was crawling ShopLocal's content as one of its sources. ShopLocal sued and yesterday a settlement was announced: Cairo agreed to an order of the court preventing it from making further robotic or other…
AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre seems to be intent upon pursuing access fees for high-bandwidth sites/networks. This article discussing his keynote at the TelecomNEXT show in Las Vegas quotes him as dismissing the torrent of criticism that has come his way…
According to this piece from CNET, Microsoft is seeking to buy Vexcel. This deal appears to be about a range of things all of which point to enhanced mapping (including 3-D mapping), which is where Erik Jorgenson said (at last…
Google Finance, an impressive collection of tools, news and resources, was supposed to launch at 12:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday. However, it's 12:27 and the site isn't yet up. Because I only got a sneak peek and wasn't able to…
Here's a Hollywood Reporter piece about the challenges of social networks (a lot of rehash but a good general overview). The new bit is the mention of GoingOn (we did a quick post in July), which is a social networking…
The Mercury News is a daily newspaper that publishes in the heart of Silicon Valley. It was Knight Ridder's "hometown" paper and one of its flagships. Now it's being sold by McClatchy. SiliconBeat alerts us to the "Save the Merc"…
According to this WSJ article (sub. req'd), cable companies and telcos have stopped trying to resist muni Wi-Fi and have jumped on the bandwagon: AT&T Inc., the nation's largest telecom provider, put in a bid March 7 to build a…
U.K.-based KinderStart.com, a "search engine" for parents of young children, has sued Google on the basis that its organic search ranking apparently declined in March 2005, allegedly because it was unfairly "penalized" by Google. According to this Reuters article, the…
So I've now scanned the complaint (reminding me of why I left litigation). This case appears to be substantially about lost AdSense revenues:On March 19, 2005, Plaintiff KSC's Website kinderstart.com suffered a cataclysmic fall of 70% or more in its…
Joga.com is an invitation-only social networking site from Nike and Google for soccer/football fans (you first need a gmail/google account). It's MySpace for soccer and it may be a "template" for other corporate promotional/vertical social networking ventures for Google and…
The N.Y. Times' Bob Tedeschi profiles (reg. req'd) Microsoft's classified marketplace Expo and explores how and whether it will compete with Craigslist. Garry Wiseman, the product manager behind Expo, will be speaking at Drilling Down on the panel "The Ultimate…
There's lots starting to happen in the newspaper industry. One example of newspapers stepping out from their traditional model into something more interesting and daring is Enterprise NewsMedia's "WickedLocal" online network. This is the "local search" portal for several Enterprise…
Following the footsteps of Topix ... Yahoo! Launches a Local News Beta. Here's an example of San Francisco; here's New York. In New York, Yahoo! gets its news from myriad sources, not just newspapers: New York Times, Newsday, WABC 7,…
The Google 10K and Yahoo! 10-K are out and people are poring over them for insights and interesting information. I don't yet have time to give either of them a careful look. But PaidContent has summarized some of the highlights…
Ever since it was announced, I have been fascinated by the potential appeal of the $100 laptop developed by MIT, with the backing of Google and AMD among others. It's now in production. I've written about it a bunch in…
At last year's ILM:05 event in Reston, Virginia — by all accounts the best ILM conference to date (that is, until the upcoming one :) — the final panel "The Local Landscape: A Coming Bonanza or Bubble 2.0?" featured a…
Leslie Walker of the Washington Post writes up an investigation by ClickFacts that estimates approximately 35 percent of a single advertiser's paid search clicks from Google were "bogus." According to Walker's piece, 17% of the leads that came from Yahoo!…
John Battelle has an interesting post about a New York public policy group that has taken out ads on Google grading New York state legislators' voting records. Political spending online is an important and growing area of geotargeted paid search…
There's tons of stuff going on over at Microsoft. I can't keep track of it all. So ... Search Engine Journal has updates here (video), here (Office Live's ad strategy) and here (MSN building ad network on internal sites).Here's the…
