Online/Interactive

One of the points former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus made in his keynote address at Interactive Local Media '04 was that there were too many silos in local and across the Internet -- "disconnected marketplaces," he called them. Pincus argued…

A9.com, the search subsidiary of e-commerce giant Amazon, has launched a Yellow Pages/local search directoryA9.com, the search subsidiary of e-commerce giant Amazon, has launched a Yellow Pages/local search directory that features millions of photo images of businesses and buildings in…

The Online Publishers Association (OPA) released a study that showed the ascendancy of video viewing online. Rich Media has generated tremendous buzz as an online branding vehicle and the findings of this survey would further confirm that. The basics: 27,841…

Google launched a new feature that enables users to find out local movie showtimes. You can search using city or zip and sort by movie or by theater. Ratings/reviews are provided by what appears to be a partnership with the…

New text messaging and other upgrades from Yahoo! on the Mobile-Local front. Here's the official statement.

When I spoke a couple of weeks ago with Justin Osmer of MSN, who was giving me a demo of Virtual Earth, he said to me that improving local was the biggest piece of user feedback they received about their…

Earlier this week a jury awarded $1.6 million to a couple in Oregon that claimed that they found a rather unscrupulous plastic surgeon in their local Yellow Pages. Odd, I thought there was something about "buyer beware" that applied to…

The first of what may become many Google Earth plug-ins, a Prudential real estate office in Chicago makes Chicago area open houses and listings available on the Google Earth client. I don't think the mainstream will be downloading and using…

Tonight Google integrated Keyhole into Google Maps. Here's The Kelsey Group's corporate offices. This is a companion view; Google's high-resolution graphical mapping is still the default. Keyhole integration into Google Maps has been expected since the company was acquired late…

Not wanting to be "disintermediated" by Oodle, SimplyHired, WorkZoo, Indeed and other existing and potential classifieds aggregators, Yahoo! -- as reported on several sites -- has developed its own metasearch for jobs. As the copy on the site suggests, and…

Yesterday there was a very interesting AP (Michael Liedtke) interview with IAC's Barry Diller. From the interview: Diller ultimately wants to transform Ask.com from a second-tier search engine to a serious threat to Google. He is mulling the possibility of…

On the heels of the U.K. launch of PPCall by MIVA (using Ingenio's system), Netimperative reports that there are two other companies offering or about to offer PPCall in the U.K. The Kelsey Group also knows of a major U.S.…

Social Networking + Vertical Search: Jobster acquires WorkZoo. There are arguably too many competitors in the recruitment/job search "space," including CareerBuilder, Monster, HotJobs, Indeed, SimplyHired, WorkZoo, LinkedIn, Oodle, Craigslist, local newspapers . . . the list goes on. Let the…

According to Hitwise (via Mediapost), Craigslist continues its impressive growth (sans marketing). Craigslist has become a real force in local; it's a collection of local communities and viable marketplaces and it now has a powerhouse local brand. There are now…

Bloglines, acquired by Ask Jeeves roughly a fortnight before it was itself acquired by IAC, is doing some interesting stuff. It recently introduced a package tracking capability and it intends to add weather, stocks and other personalized information (via RSS…

With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicking off tomorrow in Las Vegas, Nevada we are witnessing one more example of the convergence of technology, information and entertainment. With the exit of Comdex from the scene, CES is now the place…

The folks at Yahoo! notified me yesterday that they had added the ability to map rental listings to their real estate site. Here's an example for Oakland, CA. As we've written in the past, mapping is a highly valuable addition…

Yahoo! has established a partnership with Corel, the maker of MS Office Alternative WordPerfect. Yahoo! has added several pieces of functionality to the software and Corel will help Yahoo! market services (e.g., domain registration and Web hosting) to its SME…

Josh Porath, of Israel's Golden Pages, directs our attention to Cambodia Yellow Pages auctioning off the back cover on eBay. Starting bid US$1,000.

According to a new Pew report, as widely reported in the trade and mainstream press, fear of spyware and viruses is changing user behavior. The report says: 81% of internet users say they have stopped opening email attachments unless they…