We noted several stories last week that reported Universal McCann's longtime ad forecaster Bob Coen had downgraded his 2005 U.S. advertising outlook, which was issued in December 2004. The revised outlook calls for U.S. total advertrising growing by 5.7 percent…
While Housingmaps is a novel "mashup" (third-party data on top of maps) Redfin is the real thing. The folks at InfoSpace alerted me to this when I was visiting them in Seattle last week. This is EXACTLY what we've been…
Nielsen//NetRatings issued some very interesting findings late this week that should give newspapers a considerable boost. The company found that "online readers in nine of the top 10 local markets were loyal to the city's top newspaper Web site." In…
It's official: Ask launched its own bidding engine/network. But the company still wants to preserve its Google relationship: "Ask Jeeves plans to continue to display ads from Google's network but will feature them below the listings generated from its own…
Perhaps I'm obsessing over this whole user-generated content phenomenon -- and I don't want to overhype it. But in my view, this is one of the most interesting things happening online. I tried to capture the phenomenon in the context…
Google added a link to its "personalized home" in the upper right of its Google.com home page. If you click on the link and are not signed in to Google, you'll see weather, quote of the day, word of the…
Yahoo!'s "FUSE" (Find, Use, Share, Expand) strategy is more apparent in what might be called Yahoo! Local 2.0. The newly launched site, which I was fortunate to preview during a hectic SES conference, combines an impressive and rich array of…
My apologies to all those who've been repeatedly asking me about the ILM conference and speaking opportunities. I've been buried in work. The agenda is completed. We started with 30+ panels and whittled down, condensed and compacted them into 22…
On the very same day, both Borrell Associates and Jupiter released reports that are quite bullish on the local space. Jupiter, which had taken something of a contrarian position about the outlook for local search (previously the company projected $879…
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that RH Donnelley is in talks to acquire Dex Media, an acquisition that would propel RHD into the third position in the US directories market, behind SBC and Verizon, ahead of BellSouth and…
Paid Content reports Google is: reviewing bids received from multiple technology vendors for the development of a national DWDM fiber network, an optical switching fabric that would cover the entire continental U.S., and ultimately the globe. Here are more details…
On the very same day, both Borrell Associates and Jupiter released reports that are quite bullish on the local space. Jupiter, which had taken something of a contrarian position about the outlook for local search (previously the company projected $879…
Perhaps I'm obsessing over this whole user-generated content phenomenon—and I don't want to overhype it. But in my view, this is one of the most interesting things happening online. I tried to capture the phenomenon in the context of Yahoo!'s…
AOL announced an impressive VoIP offering, TotalTalk, which will be available October 4 (the TotalTalk site says "coming soon," but you can get a general taste here). The offering, available via the new AIM Triton client, has a suite of…
Yahoo! "Instant Search" has been introduced based on Yahoo! Shortcuts. AOL (with SmartBox), SNAP and a couple of others are doing similar things in providing answers before the query is completed. More from the Yahoo! Search Blog on Instant Search.
How did I miss this one? According to Netimperative: The service is already available in Yahoo! Cars and will be introduced into Yahoo!€™s other e-commerce properties, Shopping and Travel following an initial introductory period beginning in early August on its…
AOL announced an impressive VoIP offering, TotalTalk, which will be available October 4 (the TotalTalk site says "coming soon," but you can get a general taste here). The offering, available via the new AIM Triton client, has a suite of…
My apologies to all those who've been repeatedly asking me about the ILM conference and speaking opportunities. I've been buried in work. The agenda is completed. We started with 30+ panels and whittled down, condensed and compacted them into 22…
Yahoo! announced quarterly revenues of US$1.25 billion and net income of US$755 million. That represented a 51 percent increase from revenues of US$832.3 million last year during the same period. Yet the stock lost value in after-hours trading. I believe…
Yellow Book USA announced another acquisition this week, purchasing two directories from User-Friendly Phone Book LLC, which is itself a company that has been actively pursuing acquisitions in the U.S. independent sector.The two properties involved are the Steel Valley and…
