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DaveTV Considers Contextualized Video Ads
We wrote about online video start-up DaveTV in last year's White Paper "From Reach to Targeting: The Transfomation of Television in the Internet Age" (and here). Om Malik has a quick analysis of the company's contextualized ad strategy for video…
Readexpress.com Launched
It's official: The Washington Post's Express has launched its Web site, Readexpress.com. The site was already announced, but it is live for the first time today. Express is a free daily metro aimed at commuters and younger readers that has…
Tuesday News Roundup
Lots of interesting things have happened so far this week, mostly in the online video, social networking, and online news and classifieds spaces. Here is a quick recap:—Many of the monetization challenges that face MySpace (analyzed in yesterday's post) also…
More on Social Networking
The New York Times has a good piece on the monetization challenges and opportunities faced by MySpace. Though the site is second only to Yahoo! in the traffic it receives, its revenues are less than one-twentieth of Yahoo!'s.From the article:In…
Harmonic Convergence?
Here at the YPA convention, a panel discussion featuring independent Yellow Pages publishers unveiled one of the worst-kept secrets in the industry. There is a very early effort afoot to combine the three major North American industry trade associations into…
Dispatch From Orlando
The Magic is Back, and don't let anyone tell you different.Here at the Yellow Pages Association's annual confab, there is a general air of optimism about the industry. It's sort of the same feeling people get when they anticipate a…
Craigslist vs. Yellow Pages
This writer shares a personal experience that convinced him at least that Craigslist was a more efficient way than Yellow Pages to locate a tradesperson to install his ceiling fan. It's worth reading and absorbing. The premise is that posting…
Google Calendar
The Google calendar product was launched about a week ago. Philipp Lenssen has posted a list of "interesting google calendars" with screen shots. It's worth the time to look at his list.
Thursday Morning News Roundup
Here is a roundup of this week's notable happenings from around the local media world:—Job search engine Simply Hired raised $13.5 million in a third round of funding from Foundation Capital and Fox Interactive Media. It will use the funds…
Social Networking Bubble? II
This Red Herring article takes a hard look at the social networking space and asks whether we are in a bubble, what are sustainable advertising and revenue models, and will we see consolidation in the space soon?The amount of VC…
Video News Roundup
A lot has been happenning this week in the online video space: —AT&T announced yesterday that it will partner with IPTV content aggregator and platform provider Akimbo. The partnership will bring together Akimbo's movie and TV downloads and AT&T's Homezone…
Online Ads to Surpass YP?
Saw this today in an AP report on Yahoo!'s 1Q earnings: In a report released earlier this month, Merrill Lynch media analyst Lauren Rich Fine estimated spending on Internet ads this year will increase 27 percent to $14.5 billion, surpassing…
A Conversation With ZiXXo
This morning I had the chance to talk to ZiXXo CEO Mike Hogan. ZiXXO has positioned itself as a platform provider for online coupon distribution and syndication. It also has a destination site where users can look up local coupons…
MindlessPetition.org
So the news alert comes in over the PR Newswire: "Yellow Pages Face Extinction Due to PaperlessPetition.org." Using Earth Day 2006 as its excuse, PaperlessPetition.org essentially suggests that publishers eliminate print Yellow Pages in favor of Internet directories. The author…
Online Mapping Continues to Evolve
This article from Forbes.com analyzes the highly competitive online mapping space and the monetization strategies that are starting to be seen. There are also many smaller start-ups that play a part in the online mapping food chain, according to the…
Will Telefonica Pull the Plug on TPI Sale?
Reports came out over the weekend that Yell Group is the sole remaining bidder for Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion, the publicly listed Spanish publisher that is 60 percent owned by Spanish telecom Telefonica. According to news reports, several private equity…
New Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! has launched a new mail interface that appears to carry the title Yahoo! Mail Beta. It was advertised to me as AT&T Yahoo! Mail, as I am an AT&T broadband customer who is served by the content partnership between…
Google Base and Verticals
This ClickZ article has more on vertical sites (an addendum to the previous post) and on Google Base's potentially disruptive effect on existing online classified verticals. An interesting read.
A Conversation With Yokel
My colleague Matt Booth and I had the chance to talk with the folks at Yokel this morning. The company offers a local search engine (currently in beta) for offline shopping. The value proposition is that its search algorithms are…