A Few Newsbits

Search and Win: A story that's circulating today is one about the prospect of MSN and Yahoo! "incentivizing" users to switch to their search engines with rewards and prizes. MSN is further along; Yahoo! floated what might be called a…

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Kelsey Group Forecast

We put out a press release this morning highlighting some top-level numbers from our forecast released to clients late last week. Here are some of the numbers featured in the release: Global print Yellow Pages revenues will increase 1.5 percent…

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Verticals and Local

Here's an interesting post I came across from the Internet Stock Blog (quoting the earnings call) on how local advertising is driving revenue growth at online wedding vertical/portal and directory site TheKnot.com:Online ad sales constituted 57% of the company's revenue…

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IPTV News Roundup

The video and IPTV news inundation continues. Here is this week's roundup;--"Punk'd" and "Beauty and the Geek" creators Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg will team up with AOL to deliver five new programs exclusively on AOL.com.-- ZDNet has an interesting…

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IPTV Quick Hits

News from the IPTV world continues to come at us with no signs of slowing, as the industry's many moving parts take form. There are content issues with rights and aggregation; technical issues with bandwidth and video delivery; and local…

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MyWeb 2.0.2

John Battelle reported today that Yahoo! has upgraded MyWeb 2.0. Users can now search "everybody's tabs," which basically expands the social search aspect of the service. MyWeb along with Yahoo!-owned del.icio.us could be central elements to Yahoo!'s overall "folksonomy" strategy…

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Google Desktop Upgrade

Google launched an upgrade to desktop search/Sidebar. There were a number of feature enhancements (remote PC/file access, "undocking" of plugp-ins and sharing functionality). That's a very "quick and dirty" summary. The most interesting feature of the new enhancements from my…

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Classifieds Search Forum

I was invited by SimplyHired's Dave McClure to moderate the SDForum's Search SIG event last night on classifieds and search. Panelists were: Bindu Reddy, Product Manager Google Base, GoogleCraig Donato, Founder/CEO, OodleKeith Teare, Founder/CEO, EdgeioThe discussion was very candid and…

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