Author: Mike Boland

Here is the roundup of coverage from last week at DMS, in case you missed any posts.

Thanks to all who attended DMS ’09. It was a successful show by all counts, with lots of good content and networking. I took away a lot of new perspective on the ongoing discussion about the Yellow Pages evolving sales…

A panel of online video companies exhibited their wares during the closing session of DMS 09. Spotzer President Gordon Henry stressed the need for varied products and price points including "montage," stock video, and documentary style. As we've argued, this…

David Krantz, AT&T Interactive president and CEO, closed off Day 2 of DMS with a look at how he's developing the technology backbone to monetize the company's range of media assets. This includes AT&T advertising & publishing, AT&T Mobile, and…

Marquette Group CEO Chris Cummings gave a familiar call for industry change today at DMS. He stressed the need to communicate value to advertisers through data toward the end of instilling trust. "In the end our advertisers will gravitate towards…

Live at DMS ’09, BIA/Kelsey research director Steve Marshall is presenting fresh data from the most recent round of Local Commerce Monitor (SMB survey). One nugget that came out of the data: 9 percent of SMBs claim to be using…

Many of us will be attending and running BIA/Kelsey's Directional Media Strategies conference this week in Orlando. Stay tuned for blog posts and tweets from the show. If you don't follow us on Twitter already, you can do so --…

Yellow Pages Group Canada announced today that it has released a new version of its popular iPhone app, including a new interface and, most notably, video. Other features (some existing) include: - Full access to merchant content, including video and…

The TC50 has concluded and the winners announced. Best in show went to RedBeacon, a local search start-up that I missed on Monday. More on that in a minute. The start-up competition has only been around for a few years,…

A company called BreakThrough just launched at the TechCrunch50 event. First appearing to be a sort of Avvo for therapists, it proved to be more than just a search engine. In a nutshell, it offers telephone and video conferencing (via…

Facebook has just announced from the TechCrunch50 stage that it has reached 300 million active users and is cash flow positive. It has reached the latter milestone in advance of its initial goal of first quarter 2010.

I'm at the TechCrunch50 show again this year looking out for interesting mobile and local companies and people. I missed yesterday when Yext, RedBeacon and a few other local startups launched -- more to come when i'm able to dig…

Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. When Your Back is Against the Wall You probably remember Victor Kiam's famous commercials for Remington shavers from 1979…

At Mobilize ’09, Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha is announcing the latest Google Android Build known as Motoblur. It will enter the U.S. market through a new T-Mobile branded smartphone known as "Cliq" ("Dext" outside the U.S. through Orange and other…

A panel at Mobilize ’09 is discussing what factors govern context in mobile. Online, of course, we have a (somewhat) well-defined set of factors to approximate context -- keywords, page content, IP address, etc. In mobile, the rules are changing…

At GigaOm's Mobilize conference, a panel is currently discussing the ongoing challenge of deciding what platform on which to develop mobile products. Of course, the answer is, "it depends." As we explored in a recent report, this will most often…

Om Malik kicked off today's Mobilize event with a few data points and a nostalgic look at the day when a colleague stepped into his office with a Palm 5, the first smartphone. Even though it wasn't that long ago,…

Venerable mobile news source Fierce Mobile has just released one of its signature top 10 lists. This time the theme is "Top Mobile Applications of 2009," including mobile apps across different platforms. Of the 10, I count six that are…

AT&T Interactive has launched a new version of its popular YPMobile iPhone app. The new version will allow users to watch  video, and will support pay per call advertising. The video capability will tap into AT&T's growing library of SMB…

I recently had the chance to talk to ReelSEO's Mark Robertson about some trends in mobile media and the growth of the mobile Web and mobile video. He captured part of the discussion on video, which can be viewed over…