Online/Interactive

I'm stuck in the Phoenix airport waiting for a plane that is delayed. By now, you all know that Google made a lot of money this past quarter. Here's the low-down from the official release: Google reported record revenues of…

The confidentiality inherent in this closed industry kept jealousy at bay, and it no doubt encouraged many executives who were successful to stay with their current employers. You have to wonder if the large sums of money made by a…

I'm in Hotlanta (where there's plenty of evidence of global warming) . . . at the DMA convention on a panel about "marketing to a consumer who is in control." Meanwhile, things keep happening. Here is today's third-quarter Yahoo! earnings…

To anyone who hadn't guessed, that's Espa±ol for open vs. closed. Here's a fascinating post at SiliconBeat about the brewing debate, ignited in part by the Craigslist objection to Oodle's scraping. I had a conversation about the whole thing with…

One of the things I've always liked about Yahoo! Maps is the ability to plot a point -- say the Hilton Hotel in downtown Atlanta -- and then perform category-based local searches in relation to that point. This is the…

The ever vigilant crew at SiliconBeat has identified another interesting mapping/real estate "mashup" (Google Maps) + meta search. There's a lot happening with maps, and real estate is the leading edge of practical, monetizable apps. Check out Trulia (proving how…

Here's more from the Search Engine Watch blog on Google's bid to provide free Wi-Fi to San Francisco. We've discussed the implications of such a service before. It would allow for super precise location targeting, among other things (e.g., Wi-Fi…

SiliconBeat thoroughly covers the new launch of this health search engine/destination. Blogger and sometime Kelsey Group conference panelist Tony Gentile disappeared from the radar, and this is where he landed as VP of product. Vertical search is about niches generally.…

This is something of a surprise. But maybe not. More from John Battelle and Search Engine Watch. I'm in a meeting (secretly blogging) and will write more later.

I'm technically off today. But check out HomePages.com. It's real-estate mapping and accompanying monetization taken to the "next level," with a great deal of local info built around the map. Unlike mashups such as HousingMaps.com, HomePages has complete MLS information.…

Here's Yahoo!'s new and improved news search with a dash of blog search. (This is probably not a full-blown Yahoo! blog-search offering.) In this example for "local search," see the right column. Yahoo is also integrating Flickr content and audio/video…

A new report from Bank of America Securities (summarized by Editor and Publisher) reflects that national advertisers have not in fact abandoned newspapers and are shifting ad dollars to the Internet more slowly than widely perceived: The report found that,…

The WSJ and others are reporting that Wednesday Yahoo! and MSN will announce consumer IM "interoperability." The conventional wisdom being widely repeated is: This now puts pressure on AOL, the IM leader, which has twice the market share of either…

Google has introduced tagging (bookmarks) to its personalized/search history functionality, which can also now be added as a content module to the personalized home page (Fusion). This new tagging capability allows users to create a directory of sites, which can…

In September, ConsumerReports.org announced it had passed the 2 millionth subscriber milestone, which is quite impressive considering that consumers still resist paying for content online. CR's online success goes to the power of its trusted brand, its relatively unique content,…

There are some generally interesting, new consumer findings from Yahoo! (reported in MediaPost) about students' and parents' use of and attitudes toward traditional media and the Internet (specifically search engines). I haven't got lots of time to write about this,…

The Journal goes on to predict that Carlyle won't be the largest buy-out fund for long. At least three other companies "are expected to be as big or larger." Michael Klein, head of global banking at Citigroup said, "the capital…

In the first quarter of 2001, Verizon Information Services rolled out SuperPages as the new brand identity for its print directory products. At the time, the concept of applying an Internet brand name to an offline directory was unusual, and…

OK, so podcasting isn't yet part of the seemingly ever-expanding realm of things I find myself tracking these days. I'm just going to mention in passing that it's significant in the following ways: Podcasts are another species of user-generated content…

This was posted on MSN's Search Blog: From: Yusuf Mehdi As you know, we launched MSN adCenter --our next generation advertising platform -- in France and Singapore last month. This was an important first step to delivering our global vision…