Comcast announced today that its advertising sales division, Comcast Spotlight, will acquire automotive site Vehix (sans "dot com"). The company had a previous relationship -- financially and strategically -- and today's deal makes the marriage official. For Vehix, this ties the…
Here is a roundup of posts from the last week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Reality Check on Yellow Pages The sell-off of directory stocks that reached a crescendo yesterday is continuing…
In what amounts to yet another vote of confidence for local merchant video producer TurnHere, the company has announced a $7.5 million cash infusion from Venrock and Hearst Interactive Media. It's also a vote of confidence for the red hot…
Following up on yesterday's post about the Google Maps/Twitter mashup, the Lost Remote blog points to an interesting mashup created by Spokane, Washington's Spokesman Review. In all the snow the area has received, it basically creates a micro-marketplace between snow…
MySpace has taken yet another step to follow some of the strategies proved successful by its newly legitimized (and recognized) source of competition, Facebook. The company has announced it will open up its network to outside developers to build a…
Apple has announced the latest upgrade to the iPhone line -- a new 16-gigabyte model. The new model will retail at $499 and join the 8-gigabyte model ($399). In total, this is the third iteration of the device (counting the…
There are lots of places to get your Super Tuesday coverage today. Some interesting online mashups I've found include The Washington Post's and Newsweek's streaming live coverage and MTV's network of "Choose or Lose" reporters who are live blogging and…
Here are some highlights from the TKG blog over the past week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Review: Yellowpages.com on U-verse TV I'm a happy subscriber to AT&T's U-verse IPTV service,…
Local search based marketing specialist eLocal Listing today became the latest in a growing wave of companies to offer video advertising to SMBs. As pointed out in last week's post "Universal Search Paves the Way for Local Video," an opportunity…
Last week, I finally had the chance to download the newest iPhone "firmware" (v.1.1.3) that was launched at Macworld. It included a number of minor enhancements to the overall usability of the device and some upgrades across its main functions. Perhaps…
In case you haven't seen it yet, Google's home page today commemorates the 50th birthday of the Lego block. These custom logos for various holidays and anniversaries are always interesting (particularly the one shown on Louis Braille's birthday in 2006).…
Last week, a lot happened in the local media world. Here is a selection of posts in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Universal Search Paves the Way for Local Video Most of the…
Idearc Media announced today that Superpages will feed ads into the Marchex advertising network, Enhance Interactive. This clearly increases distribution for Superpages, thus strengthening the value it can provide its advertisers. For Marchex it's also a win, in that…
Most of the discussion on local video advertising has happened around IYPs and local search sites such as Citysearch. This is certainly where most of the activity is taking place as these companies are taking the guesswork out of video…
New hyperlocal content aggregator Everyblock has launched in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By bringing together locally oriented blogs, reviews and images, it joins the ranks of outside.in, Placeblogger and (more recently) Topix. Specifically, it scrapes and supplies geotagged…
The latest item in the torrent of video announcements coming out of the local search world is TurnHere's vendor relationship with Yellowpages.com, announced today. After partnering with a handful of national chains such as InterContinental Hotels to shoot localized ads…
Local and national video ad producer Spot Runner announced today that it will acquire video production network GlobeShooter. This will bring the company better scalability and capability to deploy up to 1,200 professional videographers to far-flung locales, and shoot video…
Below is a sampling of posts from the TKG blog, in case you missed any posts this week. Click below to read each post in full. More Web 2.0 Ideas for Local Search Sites OK, so I’m on a Web…
The New Yorker this week has an interesting piece by the prolific Ken Auletta about Google's growing efforts to fend off attacks from anti-corporate lobbyist groups and legislators (some of whom see the Internet as a "series of tubes"). This…
A few weeks ago, my colleague Michael Taylor sent me a link to a webcast of a panel discussion from last year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. I finally got the chance to watch the session titled The Impact…
