There is no doubt that online video is blowing up. With increased online use and investment levels on the supply side, have come innovation and experimentation with respect to monetization opportunities, such as dynamically placed inline ads being developed by…
We know well that online search has considerable effect on local offline purchasing behavior. Likewise, it's clear that the majority of retail purchases happen offline, while a growing percentage of research is occuring online. Now, iProspect has released interesting figures…
Here is a roundup of items from the past week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Grayboxx: A Sneak Peek User ratings and reviews are among the hottest areas of local search (video…
User ratings and reviews are among the hottest areas of local search (video and mobile being the others) in terms of media attention and funding. But there are still significant barriers to cross and challenges inherent in corralling a user…
Citysearch earlier this week announced it will partner with MenuPages to integrate its menu content into local restaurant listings. I finally got the chance to catch up with Rob Angel, Citysearch VP of merchant products, yesterday to ask what this…
Amid the many redesigns we're seeing in local online media, Yahoo! Local today announced a series of functional and aesthetic enhancements. They are mostly meant to accentuate and motivate more user-generated content and social search tools but also include a…
Google Maps will launch a feature next week that will allow any Web site or blog to more easily plant an embedded map anywhere on its site. This will essentially allow SMEs to more easily integrate a "find me" map…
We're seeing no shortage of commentary throughout the blogosphere on the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, which shows Yahoo! beating out Google in overall customer satisfaction for its online network of products. But another notable data point many…
Following up on last week's post about the evolving mobile device environment, GigaOm reports (found via Digg) that a German company has developed an application that lets iPhone users access Skype. This is an interesting development and well in line…
Here is a sampling of posts from last week in case you missed them (click below to read each post in full). Vehix Takes a Page From the Yellow Pages My column for Search Engine Watch this month, Pimp My…
In the daily news gathering of the wide-reaching local media world, social bookmarking services, like MyWeb, have become my best friend. There is a lot of potential for social bookmarking providers -- if nothing else to grow stickiness among a…
Summary My column for Search Engine Watch this month, Pimp My Vertical Search, takes a look at some of the directions being taken in vertical search, particularly in autos. Autobytel has begun to do some interesting things with its recently…
In my post yesterday on Facebook, I took a few shots at MySpace. Now my account seems to have been frozen. I haven't been able to get in for almost 24 hours, with the message that it has been "temporarily…
There is no question about it: Facebook is on a roll. Since it made the astute move to release its API for Web developers to create various widgets that will work on its network, scores have already been developed to…
Following up on Michael Taylor's excellent post this morning on Google's new quasi-sales force, I've been thinking more about what it could mean and how it fits into similar Google initiatives. First, it seems that it would tie together nicely…
As mentioned in last week's post Here Comes the Gphone, one of the worries (among many) causing U.S. wireless carriers to exert so much control over the devices that run on their networks is the development of Wi-Fi-enabled phones. This…
Here is a sampling of posts from the TKG blog this week, in case you missed them: VFlyer Taps Into Online Real Estate Classified widget provider vFlyer has launched a low-cost Web site development and hosting product for real estate…
Classified widget provider vFlyer has launched a low-cost Web site development and hosting product for real estate agents to post individual listings online. Like the rest of vFlyer's product line (explored here), this is a seller-centric tool that aims to…
The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports on the possibility of the long rumored Google phone. Google has a few different avenues, The Journal reports: partner or build. Partnering would require the perennial challenge of working with carriers that now…
The NewTeeVee blog reports on comments made by Susan Wojcicki, Google VP of product management, that the company is testing different forms of video advertising. As we have reported in the past, YouTube has already begun to experiment with the…
