Online/Interactive

The N.Y. Times reports on a pending announcement between Yahoo! and TiVo. Yahoo! moves off the desktop and into the living room. It's mostly about using Yahoo's TV listings to schedule TiVo, but there is a range of other Yahoo!…

Yelp, a San Francisco Bay Area local community site with directory listings -- or local directory site with community and social networking -- got some VC money last week. The site, which has national aspirations, exists in an already crowded…

Here's an interesting article from Sunday's N.Y. Times about Yahoo! and its long-term search strategy. I was at Yahoo! on Friday talking to Local GM Paul Levine about his just-added keynote at ILM:05. He and I discussed a range of…

I'm probably the last one to write about this, but news aggregator Topix.net (majority owned by the newspapers) added 15,000 blogs to its crawl. The company also organizes that information by ZIP, so you can get blogs in your local…

In the past, RHD has described itself as €œa leading Yellow Pages publisher and directional media company.€ That was the term used in the press release for both Dex and RHD. However, the current earnings announcement describes RHD as €œa…

Here's a fairly comprehensive piece from The N.Y. Times' Saul Hansell, reviewing Google's model and history and speculating about its future: Google, the one-stop shop for all forms of advertising (TV, print, online, etc.). Traditional ad agencies don't generally like…

This is a short post about a complex subject 'cause I'm technically not working. But Google getting into offline on behalf of advertisers is radical. I had been quite skeptical of the Trader Classifieds rumor for several reasons. But this…

It is not surprising that the Yellow Pages industry has stepped up to the plate to help their employees and their customers. Dan told me that, ironically, the White Pages for New Orleans are at the printer. He said, "I…

Now Yahoo! has apparently gotten into the game of bidding for a piece of AOL. Whether AOL first approached MSN or vice-versa, I believe that AOL has very shrewdly played this whole minority stake investment. TimeWarner has billions and billions…

Everybody's doing it: Google, Yahoo! and, apparently, now America Online will add blogs to its search tool kit (on the heels of its Weblogs purchase). Reportedly, the underlying engine will be Intelliseek's BlogPulse tool. BlogPulse hasn't received the attention of…

The advent of Windows Live (a version of the pre-existing beta Start.com) confirms what we already know: the Larry Ellison vision of a "network computer" is here. (Further proof: the coming Wal-Mart US$398 laptop.) Whatever the relationship, ultimately, of these…

I received a note from Google today indicating that Google Desktop 2 is coming out of beta with several enhancements. As part of that, there's a Maps plug-in for Sidebar: This new Sidebar panel rotates through maps relevant to the…

This is interesting. (Going for blogging minimalism here.)

In a very interesting bid to revive its fortunes and its consumer brand, LookSmart has launched 160 vertical sites on everything from sports to city guides (here's New York, for example). The content comes from Furl, Web crawling and LookSmart's…

Here's the U.S. Census Department's 2003 data on household computer and Internet adoption by state. The numbers are going to be larger now. But it's interesting to see the breakdown. More data here.

Everyone in the local search biz has said something like, "Once there's a laptop in the kitchen, then . . ." (fill in the blank with your own traditional media doomsday scenario). Most people don't know how to set up…

Verizon, BellSouth and SBC are madly developing IPTV to, among other things, compete with cable companies, whose bundled Internet, phone and TV "triple play" is siphoning away telephony and potential DSL customers. While most IPTV services have been delayed or…

Local content aggregator and affiliate network AreaGuides.net has been acquired by Denver-based Local Matters. This is the first consumer-facing property in the Local Matters portfolio, and CEO Perry Evans expects to substantially enhance the interface and user experience of the…

Powered by Ask, IAC beats analysts' expectations (wish I could do that), while newspapers are having a tough time, (reg. req'd) which analysts ( in this case Goldman Sachs) predict will continue: The weak ad environment for newspapers has caused…

Here's the long tail (sort of) in action: Yahoo! Autos Custom. It's an enthusiast site (hence the LT reference) but it also features classifieds and display advertising. This is an interesting marriage of content + community in a highly specialized…