Kelsey Local Media Blog
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…
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 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…
Last month, Cox Enterprises and Landmark Communications announced a reshuffling of the deck chairs, with Cox taking a more significant position in the "auto" related marketplaces and Landmark focusing on more niche or specialty oriented publications and Web sites. Cox…
Google's announcement of a US$90 million click fraud settlement is making the rounds on various blogs and news sites. The Kelsey Group believes more legal issues around the topic of click fraud will arise. Our view is that the solution…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
