Search Engine Journal points to an AP article that reports Verizon is testing pay-per-phone-call ad auctions in a Boston-area print book. A generic ad is given and "dynamically assigned," meaning it connects users to whatever local business won the auction…
Google announced today the beta launch of its new online calendar application. Cnet has a good write-up here.The calendar program will be functionally similar to the calendar module in Microsoft Outlook that many people use. However, there will be a…
The message from the ADP Annual Convention last week and my colleagues Carlotta Mast and Charles Laughlin's Advisory this week is that independent publishers continue to be growing quite nicely, thank you. The mood at ADP in Tampa was very…
Australian publisher Sensis has launched GoStay, a print + online travel service that TKG wrote about in a recent article in Local Media Journal. Here is an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the new service. This is another…
Google's announcement of a US$90 million click fraud settlement is making the rounds on various blogs and news sites. The Kelsey Group believes more legal issues around the topic of click fraud will arise. Our view is that the solution…
Last month, Cox Enterprises and Landmark Communications announced a reshuffling of the deck chairs, with Cox taking a more significant position in the "auto" related marketplaces and Landmark focusing on more niche or specialty oriented publications and Web sites. Cox…
I don't normally read every scoping announcement Yellow Pages publishers issue via e-Linc, but a recent one caught my eye. Yellow Book announced that it is combining a Burbank book and a Glendale book and offering the market a wide-area…
Last week 250,000 editions of The Baltimore Examiner were tossed to homes in and around the Baltimore area. That's right — The Baltimore Examiner not The Baltimore Sun. Interestingly, The Baltimore Sun — the 169-year-old incumbent newspaper — offers its…
Last week, in Hempstead, New York, city bureaucrats voted to approve Verizon's application to build a competitive television distribution system. The final ruling was probably not ever in doubt given the intense lobbying effort being put forth by Verizon and…
An interesting list of reasons why some people choose online over local offline shopping.
The ADP Annual Convention and Partners Trade Show kicked off officially this morning with presentations by outgoing ADP Chair Jim Hail of Hagadone Directories and President Larry Angove. The tone was much less adversarial toward incumbent publishers than it has…
Not a lot of time to blog today so here is a roundup of notable happenings.—The bidding war to unwire San Francisco with citywide Wi-Fi is over, and the winners are ... Google and EarthLink. Here are write-ups from the…
Red Herring reports that video-sharing site YouTube has raised an additional US$8 million from Sequoia Capital. It will use the funding to support rapid expansion that includes about 35,000 videos uploads per day and a total of 35 million videos…
Shimon Sandler was able to take a few screenshots of Google's new real estate engine in the short time it was live yesterday. John Battelle points out that it is simply the latest integration of Google Base. The Internet Stock…
Om Malik reports on the staggering growth of MySpace traffic, while this Guardian Unlimited article challenges how the site will make money in the face of recent bad PR, lack of a (clear public) monetization strategy and the historic failures…
The mobile content market is heating up, and lots of announcements will come out of the CTIA Wireless conference this week. This Washington Post article provides a good overview of the mobile TV space. MapQuest, meanwhile, launched a new application…
AOL has officially changed its name to, well, AOL. No more America Online. Like Ask.com's dumping of Jeeves, the move appears to fall in line with AOL's continuing efforts to shed associations with its former self (something it should do…
There is a lot happening today. Here is a quick wrap-up and we'll dig deeper into individual topics later. —Washington Post tech columnist Leslie Walker has a good piece today about the growth of local, blogging and social media Web…
Yell and two private equity consortia are reported to be the final round bidders on Spain's Telefnica Publicidad e Informacin. This excerpt is from the Financial Times. UK telephone directory group Yell and two consortia comprising four private equity firms…
Amdocs announced today that it has acquired the Danish firm Stibo. This appears to be a way for Amdocs to get deeper into the European market. Here is the announcement.
