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Integrating Directories and Classifieds: A Conversation With LiveDeal

  • June 7, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Classifieds, Mergers & Acquisitions, Online/Interactive, Yellow Pages, Internet

Summary Online-only Yellow Pages site YP.com announced this morning that it will buy online classified site LiveDeal in a stock transaction estimated to be worth about $12 million. The deal will bring together directory content and classifieds in one online…

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Bid4Spots Helps eBay Enter the Radio Game

  • June 6, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Advertising Networks, Online/Interactive, Radio

Summary EBay announced today that it will begin working with radio ad start-up Bid4Spots. The deal will bring Bid4Spots' auction-based radio ad sales capability to eBay's Media Marketplace. This represents a growing direction for eBay to broker ads to cable…

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TKG Dabbles in Online Video Advertising

  • June 6, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Conferences, Online/Interactive, Video, online

Online video stood out a great deal as a theme and business opportunity at this year's Drilling Down on Local conference in March. Spot Runner's Nick Grouf keynoted, while other speaking slots were given to TurnHere and IYPs that expressed…

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New Company Launch Watch: Avvo

  • June 5, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Verticals

Summary New legal search destination Avvo launched today to join the likes of FindLaw and LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. Like these destinations, it offers users search tools to find lawyers in different categories and locales. Legal search will be a growing area…

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Quick Update: IAC to Open Venture Arm

  • June 5, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Funding, Online/Interactive

The San Jose Mercury News reported yesterday that IAC is a few weeks away from opening its new venture arm in Silicon Valley called Primal Ventures. The focus will be investments that are more strategic than financially driven in order to…

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A Face-Lift for Yellowpages.com: Next Up, Video

  • June 4, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • AT&T, City Guides, Online/Interactive, Video, online, Yellow Pages, Internet

Summary The new Yellowpages.com beta is available for users to access and play around with. Lots of features are still unavailable, but you can get a general idea of what the new site will offer. The look and feel has…

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It’s Official: Google Buys FeedBurner

  • June 1, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Google, Mergers & Acquisitions, Online/Interactive

As expected, Google today announced the acquisition of hot (no pun intended) RSS feed management company FeedBurner. See last week's post for the drivers and implications of this deal.

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Yellow Pages Enjoys an Optimistic Wind Blowing From Europe

  • June 1, 2007
  • John Kelsey
  • Conferences, International Markets, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, European

Directories 2.0 was the subject of this year’s annual European Association of Directory Publishers conference on Managing Directories. In 1996, EADP was the first directory trade association to recognize the importance of electronic directories and hold a conference focused specifically…

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The Kelsey Take: Newspapers by the Numbers

  • June 1, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Classifieds, Newspapers, Online/Interactive, Traditional Media

Summary Earlier this week, the NAA released its Q1 figures for the financial performance of the newspaper industry. The numbers tell the same old story: Print ad revenues are down, while online revenues saw double-digit percentage growth (although still a…

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Eniro Kraks Into Denmark’s Top Online Directory Position

  • June 1, 2007
  • Michael Taylor
  • International Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, News, online, Online/Interactive, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, Internet

Eniro AB announced it had acquired 100 percent of the Danish directory company Krak from the Krak Foundation. This deal ends months of speculation as to who would purchase Krak after its announcement last summer that it was open to offers.…

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Yellowpages.com Upping the Sales Ante in Local Search

  • June 1, 2007
  • Michael Taylor
  • Ad Sales, AT&T, Online/Interactive, Yellow Pages, Yellow Pages, Internet

Yellowpages.com recently announced it would increase the number of its sales offices from two to 16, staffing each office with both field and telesales reps. While the move is a statement to the industry that Yellowpages.com plans to dominate local…

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Live Operators: Soon to Be a Memory?

  • June 1, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Directory Assistance, Google, Online/Interactive

Summary Jingle Networks' free DA service 1-800-FREE411 has discontinued live operators in some locations. Operator expenses in these markets have significantly cut into margins as the overall cost of providing these calls isn't being offset by the advertising volumes. Free…

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NearbyNow: TXT Promoter Eyes 110 Malls

  • May 31, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Conferences, Coupons/Deals, Mobile, Online/Interactive

The success of American Idol’s TXT messaging voting has gotten women shoppers thinking of it as a major media guide, or so claims NearByNow Founder Scott Dunlap, who is pushing hard to provide TXT promotions to malls around the U.S.…

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Google Pushes Mobile Maps Through Free DA

  • May 31, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Directory Assistance, Google, Mapping, Microsoft, Mobile, Online/Interactive

Summary After completing a free DA call this week using Google's newly launched 800-GOOG411, we were asked if a text message was desired in addition to the free voice and "connect me" features (the multimodal functionality that is standard in…

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CBS Joins the Social Networking Scene

  • May 30, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Radio, Television, Local, Traditional Media

Summary CBS announced today that it has acquired London-based social networking site Last.fm for $280 million. The site claims about 15 million monthly users (4 million in the U.S.) and hangs its hat on music video distribution – thought to…

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Spot Runner Breaks Ground on a New Vertical

  • May 30, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Online/Interactive, Verticals, Video, online

Spot Runner announced a deal today with LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell to distribute spot cable ad creation and buying capability to affiliated law firms. This can be compared to Spot Runner's deal with Coldwell Banker in the real estate vertical that gives…

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Where 2.0: The ‘3D Data Arms Race’

  • May 30, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Ad Sales, Blogging, Conferences, Google, Hyper-Local, Mapping, Microsoft, Mobile, Online/Interactive, Social, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0

Here at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, an annual event for 800+ mashup developers, there’s no perspective yet on the importance of maps to the local ecosphere. But a picture is developing of a “3D Data arms race,”…

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The MapQuest Survey of Online Mapping Demand

  • May 30, 2007
  • Peter Krasilovsky
  • Mapping, Online/Interactive

Amidst all the whiz bang mapping apps showed off at Where 2.0, MapQuest Gm James Greiner brought everything back to Earth with a survey showing that just 42 percent of Internet users use mapping sites, and relatively light penetration of…

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Google to Bring the Carrot and the Stick to AdSense Partners

  • May 29, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Contextual Advertising, Google, Online/Interactive, SMBs

Summary              BizReport.com reports that Google will begin to axe websites from its AdSense publisher network that have an unfavorable "ad/edit" ratio (to use a magazine term). Though this seems detrimental to Google's strategy to extend its reach for brokering ads…

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MSFT Makes The Big Apple Searchable in 3-D

  • May 29, 2007
  • Mike Boland
  • Mapping, Microsoft, Online/Interactive, User-Generated Content

Microsoft announced this morning from the Where 2.0 conference that it will add New York City to the list of cities available in 3-D in Live Local Maps. We wrote about 3-D mapping and its possibilities for Local in a…

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