Eurekster is an interesting company in the general category of social search and discovery engines that provides a search widget (Swicki) for publishers to plant on their sites. Swickis essentially refine search results over time based on the search behavior…
Google is simultaneously the most open and most shut business I can think of. On one hand, it is amazingly transparent. You walk around the two campuses in Mountain View and you can walk right by Larry and Sergey's offices.…
Here is a recap of blog posts from the past week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Stubbs Executive Interview: Video, UGC and Call Tracking Yellowpages.com President Charles Stubbs stressed the IYP opportunity…
Yellowpages.com President Charles Stubbs stressed the IYP opportunity with online video, call tracking, social media and IPTV during an SES Chicago appearance this week. Yellowpages.com is within striking distance to each of these, given the assets and initiatives of parent…
Google has been hosting a day-and-a-half local symposium here for local media, directory and vertical partners (and potential partners). Roughly 120 execs have come to the invite-only event -- the glamour of the Google-plex campus, and excellent food and drink, making…
Idearc has announced another distribution deal aimed at satisfying SMB demand for performance-based advertising on Superpages.com. The latest deal involved Findology, a California-based company that operates the Zipcodez.com local search engine. Idearc will now place its PFP advertisers on the Zipcodez.com…
I was at SES Chicago yesterday moderating a couple of panels, sharing duty with my colleague Mike Boland on the local track presented by The Kelsey Group. My first opportunity of the day was to interview Charles Stubbs of Yellowpages.com.…
Deutsche Bank media analyst Paul Ginocchio and his team released a research report last week in which the bank reaffirmed its target share price for R.H. Donnelley (US$80 -- reduced to US$65 this week after RHD issued its year-end guidance)…
The way Yahoo! breaks up business segments is always instructive -- something we follow closely at The Kelsey Group as we do our best to sort out our Interactive Local Media, Marketplaces and Yellow Pages/Directional Advertising (“The Kelsey Report”) research…
European Directories and Truvo announced the possibility of a merger of their respective De Telefoongids and Gouden Gids directory operations in the Netherlands. According to the news release: Cornel Riklin, CEO of European Directories, said “We are very excited about…
2007 U.S. advertising spending is expected to grow just 0.7 percent over 2006 to US$283.8 billion, according to McCann Erickson's well-respected advertising forecaster, Robert Coen. In his biannual Insider's Report, Coen downgraded his 2007 forecast for the second time in a year.…
It is hard for me to comprehend, but we are finally finished with ILM:07. We were grateful to have had 650 interesting and enthusiastic attendees from all over the world, 72 stimulating speakers, a full load of sponsors and an…
A major benefit associated with R.H. Donnelley's $345 million purchase of Business.com in July was getting Business.com founder Jake Winebaum. RHD needed an Internet change agent, and Winebaum clearly fit the bill after having played that role at Disney and…
At the ILM:07 conference last week in L.A., we saw lots of great mapping demos from Google, mobilePeople, et al. But it was hard to nail down how maps and their related services (ZIP codes, neighborhood mapping and other spatial…
Aside from our own play-by-play of last week's eventful ILM:07 show, here is a roundup of others' coverage: Marchex LocalPoint GigaOm Andrew Shotland's LocalSEOGuide (more posts here and here) Forbes NAA Digital Edge Blog Sebastien Provencher's Praized (more posts here…
The closing wrap-up panel at ILM:07 included two seasoned industry observers, a high-profile technology developer, and a principal from conference co-sponsor Search Engine Strategies. Under the encouragement of co-moderators Matt Booth and Neal Polachek, each panelist sought to summarize some of…
Two pioneers in the local social space discussed their leading-edge approaches in a panel at ILM:07 today. First up was Mike Orren, president of Pegasus News. Like so many companies in the local online space, Pegasus has not followed a…
Allison Mnookin, VP of Intuit’s Small Business Division, gave a keynote address on Friday at The Kelsey Group’s ILM:07 conference that started with a recap of Intuit’s segmentation approach to the SMB market. (Kelsey conference regulars have heard an earlier…
John Hanke, Google's head of Maps and Earth, keynoted this morning at ILM:07 and spoke in-depth about these products' recent announcements. These include MyLocation, terrain maps, user address corrections and enhancements to MyMaps. Just a normal week for Google though,…
John Hanke, Google's head of Maps and Earth, keynoted this morning at ILM:07 and spoke in-depth about these products' recent announcements. These include MyLocation, terrain maps, user address corrections and enhancements to MyMaps. Just a normal week for Google though,…
