AdBrite VP of Marketing (and former Yahoo Local GM) Paul Levine has joined the board of local event site Zvents. Since its launch in 2005, Zvents has raised about $7 million and has made some strong moves in local events,…
While there were many well-documented incidents of crashing servers and glitches in getting 3G iPhones activated over the past few days, Apple announced today that it has already sold 1 million of the new devices. I've been having my own…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog over the past week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Local.com Launches "Best Of" Program Local.com today announced a new program that will award…
Local.com today announced a new program that will award local businesses with a new "Best of Local" designation in 15 cities and 20 categories. This will be solely based on user reviews and a formula that takes into account reviews…
In case you've been in a cave for the past several weeks, the iPhone 3G launches tomorrow. Better yet, the App Store scheduled for tomorrow's launch is already available (latest version of iTunes required). Current iPhone users will be able…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog over the past week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. YouTube: Helping or Hurting Video Quality? Related to the previousl post, NewTeeVee asks whether…
Related to the previous post, NewTeeVee asks whether YouTube is feeding creativity or killing it. Lots of examples are given of homemade videos that have made it big, and have fueled the growing online video culture in which we find…
If you haven't heard of YouKu, you're not totally alone. But the leading Chinese video site is proving itself worthy of broader attention. The site raised $40 million this week from new and existing investors including Brookside Capital Partners, Sutter…
On the heels of announcing 500,000 business profiles and 5,000 paying advertisers, MerchantCircle has formed a deal with Yahoo! to give these businesses easy access to Yahoo! online ad products. The company already has distribution deals with Citysearch, Google and…
The Google Mobile blog today announced that the company will bring voice search capability to mobile mapping queries. This will utilize the Goog411 voice search technology, and will be available initially on BlackBerry Pearl models (8110, 8120 & 8130). It…
Microsoft's Virtual Earth Blog posted yesterday that AskCity will now use Virtual Earth to power its mapping and local features. This will take the place of Ask's homegrown mapping tool that was the first to come out with multi-point directions,…
Social bookmarking and news aggregator Digg has announced that it will integrate a new recommendations engine. This will track users' activity and recommend stories according to the behavior of other presumably like-minded users. This is mostly a filter to increase…
Local.com yesterday announced an ad distribution deal with Hearst-owned White Directory Publishers. The deal will bring Local.com's display ad inventory to White's national sales force. In this way it presents an opportunity for White to appeal to national advertisers that…
As speculated, Microsoft today announced the acquisition of natural language search technology developer Powerset. The acquisition is hoped to help Microsoft better serve search results, based on a natural language analysis of user queries, and better index of Web content.…
Here are this week’s highlights from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Stepup Alum Launches DriverSide, a Car Maintenance Site There is a sudden glut of sites that allow…
The latest nugget of data from Palore examines the average number of restaurants by state that have reviews written about them. Looks like Massachusetts takes the cake (sorry, bad pun). This is somewhat binary as it looks at restaurants that…
Many market forecasts have attempted to size the U.S. online video market, which consists of ads that are tied to a growing subset of online music, sports and entertainment clips. These forecasts project the market will grow to between US$4…
Inhabiting a small but potentially valuable corner of the local search world are geodomains -- sites like Boston.com whose intuitive URLs give them a leg up in direct navigation traffic and branding. Boston.com might be a bad example because it…
There is lots of talk this week about the next generation browser, now that Firefox 3 has launched. On Friday I got the chance to meet with Ryan Sarver, Skyhook Wireless director of consumer products, who has some notable efforts…
Here are this week’s highlights from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. MerchantCircle: 5,000 Paying Customers MerchantCircle, which is partially owned by IAC, is apparently beginning to make some…
