Online/Interactive

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…

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…

There's a new consumer paradigm emerging, one in which users have almost total control over the media they consume and how, when and where they consume it. How advertisers respond to that new disruptive consumer behavior model and the increasing…

NetImperative reports, among other things, that Microsoft will be seeking (at some undetermined point) to add video ads to PPC. As ContactAtOnce! has already shown, you can put dynamic ads and pop-ups behind a PPC campaign. Why couldn't one also…

Here's new data from Keynote. Briefly, here are some general and local highlights: For the fourth consecutive wave of the Keynote study, Google topped the Keynote Customer Experience Rankings, an aggregate ranking of leading search engines based on an analysis…

There was public discussion by the telcos and perhaps other broadband providers about trying to charge fees/taxes/tolls to the Googles and Vonages of the world for the high bandwidth usage they directly and indirectly cause. Om Malik points to a…

Nielsen reported that total search volume was flat at 5.1 billion (vs. October). The following were the search market share numbers: Google: 46% Yahoo!: 23% MSN Search: 11% AOL: 7%Here are the November comScore numbers:Google: 39.8% Yahoo!: 29.5% MSN Search:…

Here's an important post from John Battelle about the Bush administration's efforts to get at users' online behavior and search data. Battelle excerpts a San Jose Mercury News article on the Justice Dept. efforts: In court papers filed in U.S.…

eBay reported record quarterly revenues but was the latest victim of the Wall Street inflated expectations game. More on the numbers from InternetNews.com. Also, Om Malik takes a look at Skype revenues (mostly from outside the U.S.).

That's according to a study by Yahoo! Search Marketing covered in MediaPost (reg. req'd) and by Search Engine Journal. This study of VoIP awareness/research by consumers, though not yet a mainstream consumer category, shows that search is used early in…

Forget the ROKR. Apple's trademark applications suggest a mobile phone/iPod hybrid. Why do we care about this? Because an iPod phone that also permitted Internet access (as one would expect it to) could be the breakthrough device that would unlock…

The irrepressible Kevin Ryan has a column all about local today (roundup of recent developments). LiveDeal.ca (a joint venture with Canada's Torstar, which owns book publishing and newspaper properties) went live this week. The site is being integrated into Torstar's…

Newspaper giant Gannett has invested in free DA/mobile local search provider 4INFO. Here's more detail in the release. Gannett properties will gain distribution on the service as part of the deal.

Tribune Interactive has signed a deal with WorldNow, according to an article in today's MediaPost (reg. req'd), to provide streaming video for all Tribune's online properties (newspapers and TV). WorldNow also operates the Local Media Network, which offers video and…

So Apple missed too (net income doubles but falls short of estimates) ... But the company's shares weren't off as much as Yahoo! yesterday after missing analysts' estimates by A PENNY. There were blog postings here and there and a…

Q4 revenues were $1.5 billion, a 39 percent increase from $1.078 billion for the same period of 2004. This impressive growth was not enough to satisfy some analysts' very high expectations, although revenues were in line with consensus expectations. The…

One thing seems to stand in the way of Rupert Murdoch's march toward a broadband empire: the broadband network itself. This BusinessWeek article outlines his plans to compete with cable and telecom "triple play" bundles by updating News Corp.-owned satellite…

Open federation for Google Talk: the other Google announcement today. This is about the ability of IM clients/systems to connect with one another. More from Om Malik.

In December, we wrote an Advisory about toolbar strategies employed by portals, IYPs and others. The benefit, in a nutshell, is to cement the brand into a user's browser, or desktop, which all but guarantees repeat use and exposure. The…

Here's an interesting concept that circumvents some of the challenges of integrating advertising in online maps. SEW points out that the rooftop ads probably aren't for the sake of online mapping satellite imagery; they actually target commercial flights as they…