Kelsey Local Media Blog
There has been no shortage of 2005 recaps and 2006 predictions and recommendations for tech and media companies. However Business 2.0's "Futureboy" Erick Schonfeld penned one yesterday that caught my attention. It's a series of resolutions for Google, Apple, Microsoft,…
Lots of news and releases are coming out of CES. Among the many news items worth noting is the Skype-Netgear Wi-Fi phone—no PC required. The phone will work: " ... in a home, office, cafe, open public hotspot, or any…
Here's what the WSJ (sub. req'd) has to say re Larry Page's forthcoming CES keynote: Google Inc. plans to announce Friday that it will begin allowing consumers to buy videos from major content partners through the Google site and will…
As promised, SEW has a link to listen to Terry Semel's Keynote at CES tomorrow. They also cover Bill Gates' keynote last night. A further roundup of keynote coverage and other CES news is posted below by my colleague Greg…
Last week my fellow analyst Mike Boland, author of our recent IPTV/video search report, blogged about hot video-community site YouTube . So did many people at MySpace, whose references to the site were apparently removed by Murdoch's organization. (The site…
CES is in progress (we're not there), and the majority of the stuff that's hyped or presented there won't wind up in most consumers' hands, pockets, cars or living rooms. But some of it will, and one thing that's interesting…
have both Yahoo! e-mail and Gmail accounts and a Comcast personal e-mail account—all of which I use for slightly different purposes. But I've started to notice that in Gmails where addresses appear, "Map This" links are showing up in the…
According to this posting at Search Engine Journal, "Craigslist has blocked the spidering and indexing of its classifieds sites from search engine robots." This all began with the Craigslist-Oodle smackdown. What the blocking means is that individual Craigslist pages are…
On the subject of consumer electronics ... How low can it go? The price of PCs, that is. The cheapest desktop PC I was able to find online was selling for less than US$300. That's pretty cheap, but remember the…
According to new consumer data from Burst Media, older Americans (55+)—thought to be a die-hard audience for traditional media—are apparently adopting the Internet at the expense of those media: television, radio, magazines or newspapers (the study, reported in MarketingVOX, doesn't…
Now I know partly why I feel so exhausted. According to the Google Blog , the company introduced 77 new products in 2005. So there are 52 weeks in a year ... that makes approximately 1.4 product announcements per week.…
Here's Shankar Gupta's piece at MediaPost (reg. req'd) about Google gearing up to potentially charge users to watch full-length videos. While more and more users are paying for content online, this move would (in my view) be premature. There's too…
We're bracing ourselves for a torrent of announcements to come out of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas over the next few days. Device convergence will be a major theme and IPTV will get a lot of attention.…
... to paraphrase the words of George Bush. For the past 7+ days, I've had limited Internet access because of myriad problems at Comcast and with the weather in the Bay Area, where I live. Three technicians, 7 calls and…
SEW points to a few places online where you will be able to listen to the live CES Keynote from Bill Gates tonight at 6:30 PST (If you aren't watching the Rose Bowl). We expect that local search will play…
Safa Rashtchy has started off this year with a high profile. The first analyst that I heard on the radio on the way to work was Piper Jaffray's Mr. Rashtchy being interviewed by CNBC about his prediction that Google will…
Lost Remote reports today that Ford Motor Co. has recently launched a video on demand advertising campaign. It will run on Cablevision and Charter Communications cable systems and will reach about 4.5 million digital subscribers. So what is it exactly?…
Not for the "mainstream," but there will be growing momentum. Here are several mobile-related posts: SiliconBeat on mobile couponing from Cellfire John Battelle writes about mobile initiatives, specifically Medio, in a couple of recent posts Here's Search Engine Journal on…
Politics don't usually appear on this blog because of a variety of differing views at The Kelsey Group (and in most cases it's not relevant to what we're writing about). But I must say the National Security Agency has given…
