Online/Interactive

I moderated two panels on local at SES this morning. Both were very interesting and took slightly different perspectives on Local Search. Both had tactical aspects and we were lucky to have an advertiser in the room that was part…

iMedia is reporting on the brief appearance of video ads in Google AdSense. iMedia quotes a Google press statement: "Google is always considering new ways to provide value to its advertisers and we frequently run tests of potential new features…

There is so much happening (most of it interesting) in the "space" we affectionately call "Interactive Local Media" that for every post I do there could easily be five or six more. I could do nothing all day but blog…

I was at the Topix.net booth tonight on the exhibit hall floor of SES talking to Chris Tolles and Mike Markson about Topix and the newspaper industry. Topix is owned by KRD, Gannett and Tribune. In addition to a relatively…

As Mike Boland wrote earlier this week, Edgeio has launched. Here was the original posting I did a couple of weeks ago. This is a very interesting site because one can publish local classified or services listings directly there or…

A piece that appeared in the WSJ today (sub. req'd) cites Google CFO George Reyes' remark that Google's growth "is slowing due to the 'law of large numbers' and it will need to find new ways to boost revenue." As…

A new piece of research from iProspect, carried out by Jupiter says the following:Sixty-two percent of Internet users who researched products online during the holiday season used a search engine to do so, and nearly half (47 percent) of researchers…

Along with the launch of the new Ask.com yesterday, the company introduced an upgraded mapping product that now looks very much like Google Local and Windows Live Local. It offers aerial and "hybrid" views in addition to the standard mapping…

Today's MediaPost featured an article (reg. req'd) about Fox starting to use MySpace to promote a new show, "Free Ride." It had begun to cleverly "seed" the campaign by creating character profiles on MySpace last month and now there are…

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…

I know that may be asking a lot, but time is of the essence. Lots of smart people who understand the Internet work at newspapers; they just can't get their organizations to move quickly. Among the various things that newspapers…

I'm busy finishing my presentation for a panel on search engine user behavior later this afternoon at SES. But I wanted to chime in, as many others have already done, on the new Ask.com. The IAC-owned search engine has rebranded…

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…

This time on the marketing side (via ABC) as Jupiter contends that MySpace's traffic and page view numbers are terribly inflated -- "a mirage." Is this just Jupiter being contrarian or is there really something to this? Here's the comScore…

Switchboard Gets a Facelift. Here's the new site. Here's the release. More later.

In an attempt to drive more traffic, bring in more value added content, and further distinguish itself, MySpace is launching a film section of its site in partnership with Sundance. It will host independent filmmakers' profiles and short films and…

According to Parks Associates' recent research, written up in this CNET article, Internet adoption is essentially flat in the US. The firm found 64% of US homes had Internet access, up from 62% in 2004. It also made the prediction…

Here is another good introductory article (with quite a headline). This one is about some of the killer apps we can expect out of IPTV. It's an interesting (albeit long) read, with a fun list of possibilities.Elsewere, Comcast reported that…

I just received a briefing from Google on Page Creator, which was the "20%" pet project of Justin Rosenstein, project manager, who said he wanted to create a simple tool that would enable anyone to build a site quickly and…