Online/Interactive

Sabre Holdings, which is the sixth largest travel agency in the U.S. and owns Travelocity, has acquired upstart travel site IgoUgo.com. There may be a number of things that are interesting here. For our purposes, the noteworthy aspect of the…

Tom Mohr, president of Knight-Ridder Digital, added, "I sometimes don't think we have fully come to terms with the degree to which we need to undergo transformational change in order to be in a defensible position for the next five…

Broadcast TV as we now know it is probably done. Why? Online video will make Google, AOL, Yahoo! and others that follow suit the networks of the future and DVRs are killing/will kill ad effectiveness. The latter, plus the cost…

Classified Ventures, a newspaper partnership that includes KRD, Gannett, The Washington Post Co., Belo Interactive and the Tribune Co., has announced the acquisition of HomeGain, a top real estate vertical. Real estate is among the fastest growing of the online…

Sorry, but I simply don't believe Google will reach a trillion-dollar market cap. Don't get me wrong, Google is an incredible company. One of the things that I like about them is their relative modesty, something that is not often…

Specifically, digital radio can offer listeners very high-quality sound and allow stations to split their signals to increase channels. The problem is the conversion is expensive, perhaps $100,000 per radio station, and only listeners who have digital receivers will notice…

Google Maps has proven extremely popular and now the company is encouraging developers to run with it (a la Housingmaps). The company has formally launched an API. One day later Yahoo! launched its own Maps API. Here are a couple…

The Internet Stock Blog exposes (via the NY Post) the rumor and speculates as to why. Will another traditional media company or newspaper publish gobble up this online brand (like MarketWatch, About and Shopzilla)? Or will it be, as mentioned…

Here's A9 Maps' offering: San Francisco, CA. A different approach combining graphical and photo imagery (Block View). Now if Google Earth and A9 started dating that would really be something.

Google has launched its much anticipated Google Earth (GE) makeover of Keyhole. Dubbed "a 3D interface to the planet," it's basically an upgraded version of of the Keyhole software, integrated with Google Local and personalization. Yes it's cool, it's loaded…

The MyWeb upgrade from the original Yahoo! MySearch was a great improvement, allowing users to save and annotate Web pages. I have been using this for months and love it. Today Yahoo! further upgraded the offering (MyWeb 2.0) and made…

After playing around with GE this morning I'd have to say it's really, really cool (to use the vernacular). I especially like the way the map can be manipulated and the perspective (from overhead to "3D") changed. Once the satellite…

Here's a marriage of content and commerce that leverages the NY Times' theater expertise and following to deliver e-commerce revenues. In one sense it's a no-brainer, but in another it's a good model -- where newspapers have content strength they…

One of the announcements coming out of eBay Live, which I'm merely reading about rather than attending, is that eBay is launching a Web site initiative for SMEs -- ProStores. It will allow SMEs to build sites (with e-commerce capability)…

Search Engine Journal covers the winner announcement -- StairCycle. In my quest to lower my cholesterol, I'll have to get one. More at ClickZ.

Today is the summer solstice, an auspicious day for the beta launch of MSN Local Search. Though late to the party, MSN is the last but not least major search entrant in the effort to deliver local. With the transformation…

AOL beta-launched its new portal, with certain pieces to follow later (e.g., video, personalization). Internal and external expectations are high for the new site and strategy, which seeks to leverage the AOL user-base and network to drive more advertising revenue.…

Lots of media outlets (here the NY Times) picked up on a story that first appeared in the WSJ online Friday about the allegedly impeding launch of a PayPal rival (Google Wallet is the rumored name). One of the key…

That's according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The tantalizing quote from Schmidt was: "The payment services we are working on are a natural evolution of Google's existing online products and advertising programs, which today connect millions of consumers and advertisers."…

As I said before, this is really starting to become a big, big PR problem -- although some advertisers and SEMs argue it's a real problem. Coverage from Wired on the issue follows on the heels of recent WSJ coverage…