Google: Improved Local Imagery

Seeking to match some of the very impressive high-resolution "birdseye" photography now available through Windows Live Local, Google has improved the resolution on some of its aerial coverage. Here's the latest from the Official Google Blog: We're always trying to…

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What is News 2.0?

Om Malik has an interesting take on what constitutes the term "News 2.0" (the latest phrase within the Internet buzzword parlance that started with "Web 2.0"). There are many high-traffic news sites out there, he contends, that don't create any…

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Local Video and Behavioral Boosting

Here's a broad ClickZ article about media fragmentation, consumer control and video coming to local. These are all themes of the upcoming Drilling Down event. Also eMarketer compiles data from Tacoda-sponsored research showing that behavioral targeting beats contextual. The data…

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DCCI Becoming Telmetrics

Here's a rebranding case study—call measurement firm DCCI changing its name to telmetrics—that appeared in Ken Clark's YPTalk blog/newsletter. Call tracking will become more important and more central to integrated online-offline campaigns in the very near future. Call tracking will…

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Elusive Millenials

Here's a very very long article in the NY Times (reg. req'd) from Sunday about the elusive "millenials" (people born between 1980 and 2000). If anyone believes that the consumer behavior model and the media landscape isn't fragmenting and radically…

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Real Estate Roundup

Gary Price has a link-intensive piece today at Search Engine Watch discussing the proliferating tools in real estate search. It's quite thorough and worth a read definitely. Real estate is one of the most interesting verticals since it's map-intensive, involves…

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ReachLocal Deal with FTD

Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal reports on a large-scale deal between ReachLocal and FTD local florists: ReachLocal and FTD Florists are working together on a customized local search campaign in which 20,000 FTD merchants will be advertising on Google…

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The Earnings Guessing Game

SiliconBeat and John Battelle raise the question (citing Yahoo! employee Amr Awadallah's reasoned speculation) of whether Google will hit or fall short of estimates. I think the company will hit its targets (but it still may loose if it doesn't…

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Wisconsin WiMax

WiMax is coming to Wisconsin (and then beyond). Some form of broadband will likely cover almost 100 percent of the U.S. within 3 to 5 years. Why? Because there are many competitors seeking to provide that access. That's also why…

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Google, Bush and Privacy

Yesterday it was revealed that AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! complied with Justice Department subpoenas to turn over search data. Google has made a very high profile statement that it will not. Here's more coverage of the issue in the NY…

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JamBase: The Next MySpace?

That may be premature and a bit of a stretch, but the San Francisco-based live music and community site has quietly generated a solid business and extremely loyal following without funding and totally under the radar. Founded about eight years…

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