We wrote about online video start-up DaveTV in last year's White Paper "From Reach to Targeting: The Transfomation of Television in the Internet Age" (and here). Om Malik has a quick analysis of the company's contextualized ad strategy for video…
Lots of interesting things have happened so far this week, mostly in the online video, social networking, and online news and classifieds spaces. Here is a quick recap:—Many of the monetization challenges that face MySpace (analyzed in yesterday's post) also…
It's official: The Washington Post's Express has launched its Web site, Readexpress.com. The site was already announced, but it is live for the first time today. Express is a free daily metro aimed at commuters and younger readers that has…
The New York Times has a good piece on the monetization challenges and opportunities faced by MySpace. Though the site is second only to Yahoo! in the traffic it receives, its revenues are less than one-twentieth of Yahoo!'s.From the article:In…
Here is a roundup of this week's notable happenings from around the local media world:—Job search engine Simply Hired raised $13.5 million in a third round of funding from Foundation Capital and Fox Interactive Media. It will use the funds…
A lot has been happenning this week in the online video space: —AT&T announced yesterday that it will partner with IPTV content aggregator and platform provider Akimbo. The partnership will bring together Akimbo's movie and TV downloads and AT&T's Homezone…
This Red Herring article takes a hard look at the social networking space and asks whether we are in a bubble, what are sustainable advertising and revenue models, and will we see consolidation in the space soon?The amount of VC…
This article from Forbes.com analyzes the highly competitive online mapping space and the monetization strategies that are starting to be seen. There are also many smaller start-ups that play a part in the online mapping food chain, according to the…
This morning I had the chance to talk to ZiXXo CEO Mike Hogan. ZiXXO has positioned itself as a platform provider for online coupon distribution and syndication. It also has a destination site where users can look up local coupons…
My colleague Matt Booth and I had the chance to talk with the folks at Yokel this morning. The company offers a local search engine (currently in beta) for offline shopping. The value proposition is that its search algorithms are…
This ClickZ article has more on vertical sites (an addendum to the previous post) and on Google Base's potentially disruptive effect on existing online classified verticals. An interesting read.
Yahoo! has launched a new mail interface that appears to carry the title Yahoo! Mail Beta. It was advertised to me as AT&T Yahoo! Mail, as I am an AT&T broadband customer who is served by the content partnership between…
Google announced today the beta launch of its new online calendar application. Cnet has a good write-up here.The calendar program will be functionally similar to the calendar module in Microsoft Outlook that many people use. However, there will be a…
Search Engine Journal points to an AP article that reports Verizon is testing pay-per-phone-call ad auctions in a Boston-area print book. A generic ad is given and "dynamically assigned," meaning it connects users to whatever local business won the auction…
Not a lot of time to blog today so here is a roundup of notable happenings.—The bidding war to unwire San Francisco with citywide Wi-Fi is over, and the winners are ... Google and EarthLink. Here are write-ups from the…
An interesting list of reasons why some people choose online over local offline shopping.
Om Malik reports on the staggering growth of MySpace traffic, while this Guardian Unlimited article challenges how the site will make money in the face of recent bad PR, lack of a (clear public) monetization strategy and the historic failures…
Shimon Sandler was able to take a few screenshots of Google's new real estate engine in the short time it was live yesterday. John Battelle points out that it is simply the latest integration of Google Base. The Internet Stock…
Red Herring reports that video-sharing site YouTube has raised an additional US$8 million from Sequoia Capital. It will use the funding to support rapid expansion that includes about 35,000 videos uploads per day and a total of 35 million videos…
