To follow up on last week's post about a prospective Google Android-based T-Mobile phone, here is a video from MobileCrunch that demos Android. The video walks through an emulator of the operating system, which is basically a desktop version of…
Local product search provider Krillion today added 96 product categories to its "Localization Engine." The new categories join Krillion's current sweet spot of home appliances and consumer electronics, and include computers, office equipment, car audio & electronics, and tools &…
Topix CEO Chris Tolles has a well-reasoned piece in iMedia Connection. He writes that media usage and ad dollars are quickly moving online (which we know), but local content and ads aren't moving as fast as comparative national metrics. But we're…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Here Comes the GPhone, Part IV Early rumors of a Google phone, before the Android platform…
Early rumors of a Google phone, before the Android platform was announced, gave the device a name of "GPhone" (remember?). That name ended up being not that far off the mark -- though Google ended up building the OS rather…
Sebastien Provencher points to the small but hopeful collection of local sessions that have been proposed for the 2009 South By Southwest conference taking place in March. One is led by Topix.com CEO Chris Tolles ("Think Globally, Post Locally: The…
Windows Virtual Earth evangelist Chris Pendleton writes on his blog about the availability of display advertising on Live Search Maps. Known as "highlighted listings," this is similar to the mapvertising Google Maps offers. Both place icons on map locations --…
Last night, while watching reruns of The Office on TBS, I noticed something peculiar. During a commercial break, one of the network's stand-up comedy shows was advertised -- a typical house ad. But it had an odd feel to it.…
Matchpoint will soon be rolling out a new set of ad products to complement its flagship online lead-gen forms. On its own site, it will integrate more of an IYP setup with searchable business listings. With each search results page,…
Yahoo Brickhouse division-head Tom Coates officially launched the Fire Eagle platform today to a packed room of San Francisco journalists, analysts and bloggers (and Yahoo cofounder David Filo). The platform, in beta since March, is based on managing users' location…
The iPhone App Store is kicking butt to the tune of $1 million in sales per day ($30 million to date) and 60 million total downloads. This from an article put out yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, based on an…
Following closely behind the TKG report and forecast on the growth of SMB video advertising, The Wall Street Journal writes today about the opportunity. It's a good introductory glimpse into the medium and how it has been growing with lowered…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Old Online Services Never Die, They Just Fade Away France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on…
Sebastien Provencher takes an interesting look at UrbanSpoon's iPhone application and also poses the question, have we already jumped the shark with mobile local search on the iPhone? This question relates more to the volume of apps vs. early adoption…
WellcomeMat isn't the latest player to enter the SMB video space, but it is starting to get more attention as the medium itself picks up. As TurnHere, Mixpo and a few others do to varying degrees, the three-year-old company focuses mostly…
The latest nugget of data has been released from the folks at Palore. This set shows the monthly ad spends from a sample of 6,000 advertisers in San Francisco and New York within the Yellow Pages headings of beauty &…
Cable video, voice and broadband provider Comcast is set to buy Daily Candy for a reported $125 million. Daily Candy specializes in daily electronic newsletters catered to affluent women in urban areas. The focus is mostly on fashion, food and…
Today, TurnHere announced the appointment of Bud Rosenthal as CEO. Rosenthal previously held VP positions at Yahoo! Small Business Services and Real Networks' Rhapsody music division. He also founded BigStep and was most recently CEO of Bessemer Ventures-backed job board…
MerchantCircle announced today that it will offer a Web site hosting service on top of its existing set of local listing products. Known as Instant Website, it will offer the 550,000 companies that have MC listings, Web site creation and…
Today, TheFind launched its anticipated iPhone application, called "Where to Shop." The biggest selling points of the application involve the product search that combines location awareness with inventory feeds from Krillion and NearbyNow. As we've written, the iPhone and its…
