The mobile content market is heating up, and lots of announcements will come out of the CTIA Wireless conference this week. This Washington Post article provides a good overview of the mobile TV space. MapQuest, meanwhile, launched a new application…
There is a lot happening today. Here is a quick wrap-up and we'll dig deeper into individual topics later. —Washington Post tech columnist Leslie Walker has a good piece today about the growth of local, blogging and social media Web…
AOL has officially changed its name to, well, AOL. No more America Online. Like Ask.com's dumping of Jeeves, the move appears to fall in line with AOL's continuing efforts to shed associations with its former self (something it should do…
My explanations of IPTV are sometimes met with blank stares or looks of confusion, at which point I just revert to "You'll be able to watch television on your computer." But this isn't really what IPTV is. An important distinction…
Judy's Book and Local.com announced a partnership earlier in the week to syndicate the former's local reviews and user blogs on the latter's local search site. Since Judy's Book was already syndicating blog content of its users' existing blogs (rather…
President of Verizon's Internet division Eric Chandler announced a partnership between SuperPages and Google on Day 1 of Drilling Down On Local, as mentioned earlier by Greg. The deal will position Verizon as an authorized AdWords reseller and give it…
When Greg and I were up at Microsoft a few weeks ago, we discussed the integration of search macros into the company's Live Search Product, which will power MSN Search and Windows Live. Yesterday, search macros were introduced on the…
Google has added a social tagging feature to Google Reader. After setting up RSS feeds in the reader, users can tag articles or Web pages and share them with friends via e-mail or syndicate them on a blog. Just as…
The appeal of Sling Media's Slingbox is that you can use it to tap into your home television's broadcast feed from remote locations (great for catching a local sportscast if you are on the road). It has introduced the term…
There continues to be business activity in the embryonic field of video game advertising. As we've reported in the past here and here, this could be an interesting area to watch because of the repeated exposure that ads could receive,…
Despite the perceived success of MySpace, there are skeptics of social networking business models. BusinessWeek brings up the possibility that we're in a social networking bubble that is reaching saturation while ad models remain somewhat shaky.From the article: For many…
An addendum to the previous post: If the social networking space is indeed saturated, it just got a little more so. Viacom has announced it could launch what seems like a "me too" social network this year that will target…
PaidContent has an interesting interview with Jim Voelker, CEO of InfoSpace. It covers among other things the company's merging of its search and directory and mobile divisions. Read it here and listen to it here.
Broadband numbers were up in 2005, according to Leichtman Research Group, and reported by Om Malik. We'll get into this further in an upcoming advisory on triple- and quad-play offerings of cable and telecom providers. We'll also hold a related…
Search Engine Journal reports on a new product from Local.com that is basically a branded search engine that publishers can plant on their sites. This eliminates the need for publishers to invest in the development of search functionality on their…
This morning I had the chance to catch up with Daniel Read and Ryan Massie of Ask.com, as they ran around SES answering reporter and analyst questions about the site re-launch. The site upon first glance appears to have some…
The New York Times has an interesting piece today on Google's click-to-call offering, and that of smaller companies such as eStara and Ingenio, that have offered pay-per-phone-call marketing products (the ad model built around the underlying click-to-call technology) for some…
A lot is happening today. Here is a quick sampling (with additional analysis to follow).— Quarterly revenue increases for Internet search companies are outlined here. — Homestore.com has announced the acquisition of Moving.com, which it will consolidate with Homestore, HomeBuilder…
