Author: Mike Boland

SEW reports that IAC/InterActiveCorp has launched a comparison shopping service called Pronto. Check it out and let us know what you think. We'll do the same. More on this later.

PaidContent has an exclusive interview with Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, Yahoo!. With the recent media storm over content and online video (stepped up even further by last week's CES conference and this week's Macworld expo), an important question is: When…

The New York Times (free reg. req'd) has more detail about the expected announcements from Terry Semel and Larry Page today. Semel's keynote is going on right now, and Page's is later today. We'll follow up with recap and analysis…

Speculation that Google will move more aggressively into the jobs vertical.

As promised, SEW has a link to listen to Terry Semel's Keynote at CES tomorrow. They also cover Bill Gates' keynote last night. A further roundup of keynote coverage and other CES news is posted below by my colleague Greg…

There has been no shortage of 2005 recaps and 2006 predictions and recommendations for tech and media companies. However Business 2.0's "Futureboy" Erick Schonfeld penned one yesterday that caught my attention. It's a series of resolutions for Google, Apple, Microsoft,…

We're bracing ourselves for a torrent of announcements to come out of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas over the next few days. Device convergence will be a major theme and IPTV will get a lot of attention.…

SEW points to a few places online where you will be able to listen to the live CES Keynote from Bill Gates tonight at 6:30 PST (If you aren't watching the Rose Bowl). We expect that local search will play…

Lost Remote reports today that Ford Motor Co. has recently launched a video on demand advertising campaign. It will run on Cablevision and Charter Communications cable systems and will reach about 4.5 million digital subscribers. So what is it exactly?…

Danny Sullivan over at SEW points to YouTube, an entrant in the red-hot video search space. Think of it as the Flickr of video. Users can upload video and search its library of user-generated content. And like Flickr, users can…

Many have expected that the IPTV rollouts by major telecom companies, including Verizon and AT&T, would begin to harm cable companies in 2005. But that hasn't happened yet, according to this Red Herring article. Cable companies have in fact been…

Game Publisher THQ announced that it has joined the online game advertising network of Massive Inc., which places real-time ads within the gamescapes of many popular online games. In-game advertising is a concept that is starting to become a reality,…

Yahoo! has launched a new service called Open Shortcuts, according to SEW, that allows users to create custom search commands.According to Yahoo!, this will let users:- Instantly navigate to any URL on the Internet- Easily recall common searches on Yahoo!-…

Web-delivered video is hot right now, with a number of video start-ups having launched or received funding and with the iPod video making it the newest sexy thing to cover in the media. The latest move comes from online video…

Om Malik takes an interesting look at the Google-AOL deal, including its implications for Video.Among other things, the deal will give a boost in the arm to Google's beleaguered content aggregation efforts for its video search. It has thus far…

Google is closing in on personalized search, a feature on the search horizon that will allow engines to better target users and optimize paid search. The carrot for users is a better way to organize their search history. It's been…

The debate over requiring users to register for access to news content rages on in the online news world. On the one hand, it can inhibit traffic by erecting a barrier for users to get content, and traffic is important…

Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing lists his New Year's resolutions for the newspaper industry here.It's a good summary of many of the challenges facing the newspaper industry, and it echoes much of our own analysis and recommendations to the…