Paid Content reports Google is: reviewing bids received from multiple technology vendors for the development of a national DWDM fiber network, an optical switching fabric that would cover the entire continental U.S., and ultimately the globe. Here are more details…
How did I miss this one? According to Netimperative: The service is already available in Yahoo! Cars and will be introduced into Yahoo!€™s other e-commerce properties, Shopping and Travel following an initial introductory period beginning in early August on its…
My apologies to all those who've been repeatedly asking me about the ILM conference and speaking opportunities. I've been buried in work. The agenda is completed. We started with 30+ panels and whittled down, condensed and compacted them into 22…
AOL announced an impressive VoIP offering, TotalTalk, which will be available October 4 (the TotalTalk site says "coming soon," but you can get a general taste here). The offering, available via the new AIM Triton client, has a suite of…
AOL announced an impressive VoIP offering, TotalTalk, which will be available October 4 (the TotalTalk site says "coming soon," but you can get a general taste here). The offering, available via the new AIM Triton client, has a suite of…
Yahoo! "Instant Search" has been introduced based on Yahoo! Shortcuts. AOL (with SmartBox), SNAP and a couple of others are doing similar things in providing answers before the query is completed. More from the Yahoo! Search Blog on Instant Search.
According to the FCC (reported by CNET), broadband (BB) grew in all 50 U.S. states and was up overall by 34 percent in 2004. Here's why BB will continue to gain: Government initiatives (e.g., municipal free access) Price competition WiMax…
As Google became progressively more powerful, more and more people began trying to manipulate Google's "organic" search results. That aim has spawned a whole industry -- search engine optimization -- and in fact resulted in more manipulated links (some would…
First Google and Yell announced that the latter, the owner of the Yellow Pages brand in the U.K., would provide the content for Google Local U.K. Now Yell's rival in the directory publishing business, Thomson Directories, has announced that it…
Yahoo! announced quarterly revenues of US$1.25 billion and net income of US$755 million. That represented a 51 percent increase from revenues of US$832.3 million last year during the same period. Yet the stock lost value in after-hours trading. I believe…
I€™ve made a big deal of late of user-generated content and its importance in local. But not all publishers and sites can effectively pull this off. Getting users engaged and creating a community atmosphere that will encourage this is no…
According to a story yesterday in MediaPost, BURST! Media surveyed 6,400 online users (14 and older) and found that 62% were most interested in news when they went online. Entertainment was the second most popular category of information, sought by…
The NY Post reports that Microsoft wants to buy a piece (how big?) of AOL. (Perhaps it's time for some Scooby-Doo sound effects and other incredulous reactions.) Why? Maybe: TimeWarner wants some cash to pay down its billions in debt?…
It would appear, as some have speculated, that Google is working on just about everything that its hundreds of engineers can sink their intellectual teeth into. Today, for example, Google launched blog search from both its Blogger site and from…
So I'm 20 years out of college this year (and 15 out of law school) and starting my mid-life crisis in earnest. That's why I glance wistfully at a host of applications and marketing initiatives directed at college students: LiveDeal's…
Just like Humpty Dumpty's great fall to pieces, media content and audiences are fragmenting -- or perhaps what might be called "nichifying" (read: long tail). And just like "all the king's horses and all the king's men," one of the…
Idealab's Snap.com search engine has launched comparison shopping. The site was developed in partnership with Smarter.com and CouponMountain.com. Shopping search is one of the most furiously competitive market segments and Snap is fighting an uphill battle to gain traction (just…
Yahoo! intitated a beta test with a limited number of users (sadly I'm not among that select group) and is preparing to launch a much-improved Web based email product. Beyond putting pressure on rivals (especially Hotmail), it will seek to…
Simplified search/local search enabler (my awkward term) SME Global Solutions has bagged some cash -- in other words, closed a Series A round with Redpoint Ventures -- and changed its name. The company is now being called "WebVisible." What WebVisible…
At a time when former subscription services (e.g., CNN Video) are moving to free, ad-supported models, the NY Times is moving in the opposite direction. On Monday, the company is launching TimesSelect, a subscription service that will mean certain content…
