Online/Interactive

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…

According to an article that appeared in Editor & Publisher, Tribune Co.'s Newsday has abandoned AdSense in favor of an "in-house" contextual product powered by Quigo: As more and more newspapers are embracing Google AdSense and other third-party context-based advertising,…

A raft of competitors using the label "pay per call" is about to enter the marketplace and compete for business in this up-and-coming arena. The first of these new would-be competitors for Ingenio making a public push is ZiffTalk. Another…

Thanks to SiliconBeat for pointing out Social Media + Maps site Frappr. It's fun; take a look. Also John Battelle discusses a new button from Yahoo! intended to get more content into social search content repository MyWeb.

LocalLaunch's CEO Justin Sanger several months ago wrote a column that was strongly critical of IYPs ("Internet Yellow Pages Are Dead") as destination sites. So it's very interesting that his most recent ClickZ column is extremely bullish on YellowPages.com. What…

In a separate item by David Carr, titled €œWhy You Should Pay to Read This,€ the author suggests that paid content is in real danger because youth expect information to be free. They are willing to pay for the distribution…

Google Base (now apparently down) is a content entry system for: Description of your party planning service Articles on current events from your Web site Listing of your used car for sale Database of protein structures This could be the…

A bad bit of news (reg req'd) for the newspaper industry that had been using free metro dailies to reach new audiences -- in theory: While they are attracting some hard-to-reach readers, including younger and minority, they have been small…

Eric Auchard (Reuters) profiles a new social search engine, Kaboodle (sort of like Jeteye but simpler). It looks very interesting, but what will be its fate? One has to ask the broader question (with all the new launches recently): What…

AOL wisely starts marketing AIM to younger audiences, where it has brand and usage strength. Also, another area of AOL strength, the company beefs up Singingfish and AOL broadband video search with RSS feeds.

There are three dimensions to local: "where I am," "where I'm going" and "where can I buy it?" The new Yahoo! Trip Planner seeks to leverage a number of Yahoo!'s locally oriented applications and information, including search, maps and user-generated…

Classifieds provider LiveDeal, which was initially dismissed by some as being unable to compete with Google, Craigslist and eBay, has scored a major coup by partnering with Canadian media giant Torstar Corp. to launch LiveDeal Canada (site not currently available).…

Noteworthy . . . from the folks at PaidContent: Weblogs Inc, the blog media company founded by Jason Calacanis, is being bought by America Online . . .The company's blogs have had an exponential trajectory, with sites like Engadget, Autoblog,…

There are simply too many things going on. Here are a few quick hits with some thoughtful remarks (hopefully) to come later: MapQuest to Publish (Real) Books (taking online offline; they've got the brand to do it) Yellow Pages Group…

HousingMaps, Yahoo! Apartments, HomePages, Trulia and now Google may be seeking to combine real estate listings and related data with Google Earth and/or Google Local. (Thanks to John Battelle for pointing to the article on the San Jose Mercury News…

The recent earnings' results from BellSouth, SBC and Verizon all show that their growth is coming primarily from high-speed Internet and wireless. Accordingly, we believe that the FCC's recent decision will enourage more investment in DSL by the RBOCs. Since…

Today next-generation news aggregation site Inform unveiled itself. I spoke to CEO Neal Goldman a couple of weeks ago and got a demo of the site, which was very impressive. I don't have a great deal of time this morning…

Craigslist (CL) has been the proverbial poster child for friendliness, openness and online cooperation. However, as John Battelle reported first yesterday, CL has apparently blocked Oodle CEO Craig Donato's classifieds aggregator from crawling and indexing CL's listings. Currently, the local…