Author: Mike Boland

I've been travelling internationally so I'm late to this news. But it's worth mentioning that xAd has joined the ranks of ad networks that produce reports on their network activity. We've seen these from the likes of Millennial, and more…

Last week I had the chance to talk to Goodzer founder Dmitry Pakhomkin in advance of the product's official nationwide launch today. It's also now available both online and as an iOS app. The local product search app enters a…

We keep getting more and more points of affirmation that location targeting in mobile is growing. This is happening as both large advertisers "grow into" the medium, and as it moves down market to SMBs (whose mobile advertising is counted…

The apps vs. mobile Web debate rages on in the marketplace, the blogosphere and at tech conferences. But lots of people are coming around to believe that both development platforms have lots of room for growth. ComScore puts them at…

As we've sought to closely cover the inception and growth of mobile local search over the past few years, Poynt has been an important and influental company on our radar. This has involved a great deal of evolution in broadening…

During our DMS conference in September, we held a session on the "starting line" tools for SMBs to establish a mobile presence. This is step 1, before the higher frequency discussion of targeting mobile ads. It's what I like to…

Google Mobile Ads senior product manager Surojit Chatterjee just posted details on the Google Mobile Ads blog about a new set of ad formats. They're listed below, but it's worth pointing out that many of them are local in nature.…

I just got finished watching KPCB’s Mary Meeker give her semi-annual data dump at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As always, it was quite comprehensive and quite good.

And as in the past, much of it focused on mobile connectivity, device sales and the overall marketplace disruption we’re seeing come out of the mobile sector.

“We’re in the middle of one of those once in every 10-20 year shifts,” she said. “Mobile connectivity is at the center of that, and mobile devices just nearly outshipped PCs.”

Being somewhere between a few of my own presentations, I’ll give a few highlights and save the rest for later. Indeed, these slides will be a key part of lots of presentations you’ll see in the coming months.

Below are a selection of the mobile slides (only about 10 of the 70 total slides she showed). Most of them are after the break, to save room. And the entire presentation is available on Scribd.

Yesterday, we alluded to some of the developer partnerships eBay announced for its new X.commerce platform. They were paraded out in greater detail following John Donahoe's keynote, representing the first big functionality injections to the platform. As background, X.commerce is…

I'm at eBay's X.commerce developer conference where CEO John Donahoe kicked things off by introducing what X.commerce is and what it hopes to become. Just like eBay opened up PayPal last year for third-party developers to integrate payments into their…

For the next few days I'll be at eBay's X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco, where we'll see lots of announcements that bring together its platform. X.commerce is meant to give retailers of all sizes better tools to conduct…

In an ongoing effort to provide more multimedia here, we're unearthing and packaging up lots of past conference video. This is also a good exercise as we gear up for our flagship ILM West conference coming up in December. Below…

I recently got a question from a colleague. The answer relates closely to the "Mobile Starting Line" panel we had at the recent DMS conference, and other market happenings. See the thread below. As blogs are increasingly becoming a place…

EMarketer is out with its latest mobile forecast revision, projecting U.S. mobile ad revenues to grow from $743 million last year to $4.4 billion in 2015. This is right in line with the forecast we released in February, especially in…

Following our earlier coverage of today's Apple announcements, you can watch Apple's promo video for the iPhone4S and iOS5 by clicking below.

Today Apple held its first major product unveiling of the post-Jobs era. As guessed by many, it introduced not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4.5 of sorts. It's the 4S, similar to Apple's jump from the iPhone 3G to…

I'm on vacation but this is a quick and interesting enough tidbit: On shopkick's first birthday this week, it launched a video that highlights lots of milestones. It's mostly promotional but also informative about what the company has been up…