Online/Interactive

A pair of reports released this week forecast IPTV subscriber and revenue growth for the next four years. Both Gartner and Research and Markets predict solid growth for IPTV by 2010. The growth of IPTV will have implications for local…

Yahoo! continues to integrate different forms of social media. This time the venue for the integration is Yahoo! Maps. Om Malik's blog reports that Yahoo! Local today will bring in the Flickr photo-sharing service and Upcoming, a social online calendar…

There has been substantial coverage today on the ad deal formed between eBay and Google. There is a lot to this deal, notably the pay-per-call advertising implications brought by the integration of eBay-owned Skype and Google's extensive online ad network…

We often cite U.S. Census Bureau data that report e-commerce accounts for only 2.5 percent of total U.S. retail spending (the rest is offline). Here is an indication that this is shifting. If this is true, it could have considerable…

Search Engine Watch speculates that Yahoo!'s Panama search engine marketing platform could be here sooner than its recent delays have indicated.

Last week we previewed local product and inventory search provider NearbyNow. The company has since announced a key partnership that will form the basis of its local search model going forward. Its partner is the Eastridge mall in San Jose,…

Local search engine TrueLocal, which provides enhanced listing info for franchisees and brands, is trying out direct sales via a five-person call center. According to Founder Jake Bailes, the call center will target specific verticals, market-by-market (i.e., tire stores in…

Yahoo! Local now relies on more than a dozen resellers, in addition to its own self-service center, says Yahoo! Local GM Paul Levine, who was speaking on a Small Business Commando Tele-Seminar with Dick Larkin and Kelsey's Matt Booth. "They…

Last week, we wrote about local product and inventory search provider NearbyNow (an extended write-up of the company is in this week's Local Media Journal and coming tomorrow on the blog). A key part of NearbyNow's model will be to…

About 50 percent of small businesses in the U.S. now have "Web sites" — or pages, microsites, listings, pages or even e-mail addresses that they might call Web sites when asked in phone surveys. The number of real Web sites…

In the online video space, video-sharing site YouTube has launched an advertising model that appears to be its first effort to monetize its explosive popularity (the site received 16 million unique U.S. visitors in July, according to comScore Media Metrix).…

Yesterday, I wrote about PremierGuide's innovative Microsites, which can act as searchable, full-featured alternative to Web sites. They're highly effective if you want to be found by a search engine, and also put all your expensively produced TV commercials, Yellow…

By some accounts, more than 50 percent of local businesses that advertise have Web sites. But they still need to be found by the search engines. That's the role that PremierGuide, a local search vendor that works with 250 newspapers,…

As we reported last week, we've learned that eBay Motors is going full speed ahead with local. Now we have more info. Within four to six months, sources tell us that the auction leader will be launching a full-fledged, re-branded…

Newspapers need to prepare for the next generation by right-sizing their operations, diversifying their holdings, and finally grasping, from top to bottom, that there has been an online, pay-for-performance advertising revolution that is at least as significant as the online…

EBay Motors, which has more traffic than any other auto site, has just sold its two- millionth car. Of course, the status as traffic leader should be asterisked, as execs from Autotrader, Autobytel and Cars.com are quick to point out.…

Today I had the chance to speak with Scott Dunlap, CEO of NearbyNow, which has an interesting model for bringing inventory data online to drive offline conversions. There is very little I can say at this point because of embargoed…

Here is a roundup of news from around the social networking world this week:— The San Jose Mercury News reports on the various services that surround MySpace and have ridden its coattails to success. As we recently analyzed in this…

New features can be found on Google Talk today, including unlimited file transfer between users and voicemail capability. If someone isn't "available" in Google Talk, you can record a message that is then sent to that person's e-mail address as…

Sometimes, you can tell a lot about where a company is going by who stays and who leaves — especially if you think you have an inkling why.I don't want to turn this into an Executive Turntable page or anything.…