Sit back and listen to a spellbinding tale of exotic lands, for I, Scheherazade, will enthrall you with stories of intrigue, riches and wonder. Our tale begins with a not-so-far-off-anymore land, a country once known as Qin. Many companies and…
Couple weeks ago I wrote about the perceived clout that eBay had with their sellers when they announced a number of price increases. What's transpired since is even more interesting than eBay's attempt to raise prices. Instead of "bitching and…
I had a very informative meeting with LookSmart CEO David Hills (formerly of 24/7, About, Cox Enterprises and elsewhere). He acknowledged some of LookSmart's past strategic missteps and gave me an overview of the company's new three-pronged strategy. (Impressively he…
Not enough time to cover everything that's going on: NYTimes acquires a minority stake in meta-vertical job search engine Indeed Noika introduces a mobile local search app w/a collection of partners AOL boosts investment in wireless with Wildseed Google reportedly…
There are lots of new mobile search initiatives going on. Most recently, AOL introduced a mobile search offering with technology that automatically renders Web pages for tiny cellphone screens. Meanwhile, Google and Yahoo! have Web search and SMS tools that…
It was a full day here in Las Vegas €" the land of free drinks that can cost you every penny you have, and where the hotels invest very little in clocks and windows. The YPA annual meeting was packed…
No time for analysis. Here's the release. With YPN and more players trying to dislodge AdSense, things are getting more interesting and competitive.
This article spills the beans before the official announcement (today). The system is Verizon's own, for which it is reportedly seeking a patent. Other IYPs will likely follow. Here's the release. The most recent Local Commerce Monitor (SME) data to…
Search Engine Strategies, which Jupiter just sold, rolls into beautiful San Jose, CA, this week and there are sure to be dozens and dozens of announcements (I know of about five or six off the top of my head) to…
Kudzu: I don't have a lot of time to blog this. I spoke with Kudzu's Tom Bates last week. Kudzu is a "services directory" (read Internet Yellow Pages) that is a little over a month old. It's operated by Cox…
That's according to Nielsen (as reported by MediaPost): MSN Maps and Directions drew 1.2 million unique U.S. at-home visitors the week ending July 31--the first full week its satellite mapping service was live. That figure represents a 175 percent increase…
I'm not going to tell you. Instead, I'm going to send you to a very interesting post on another blog that argues Murdoch's going to create an MTV competitor and more using the MySpace brand. This theory makes much more…
Sometimes I'm even surprised by the level of interest and attention being given to maps of late. But the data keep reminding me of how mapping applications are so widely used and, dare I say it, beloved by consumers. Our…
There is so much news and there are so many announcements flying around these days I just have to duck much of the time. However, I feel compelled to point out a fact of some significance that got almost no…
Finally caught up with Yahoo! PR folks -- Gaude Paez in this case. She helped clarify for me that the new Yahoo! Publisher Network isn't just about blogs; it's for any small or medium-sized content publisher (right now by invitation…
In one corner is Yellow Pages Association president Neg Norton, who writes about the profile of consumer-users of IYP products (based on the assn's earlier study with comScore). Norton extolls the advertiser benefits of IYPs vs. search engines (more qualified…
While most people don't know what "RSS" stands for, online editions of newspapers may begin developing their own RSS readers to preserve the "integrity" of their content. RSS readers, such as MyYahoo, threaten to further "disintermediate" newspapers, as news aggregation…
Going to write more about this in TKG's Local Media Journal. AOL beta launched a new metasearch travel site, Pinpoint Travel. It doesn't replace AOL's own travel channel. In fact, it doesn't carry the AOL brand (part of the strategy…
As others have already reported, InfoSpace's Dogpile metasearch engine added MSN Search to its layered results. Here's a visual tool where users can compare the uniqueness of search results across the major engines. Dogpile, with its ability to segregate results…
News Corp.'s purchase of social networking and music promotion site MySpace could only have been motivated by a desire to acquire social networking/community tools and the teen/young adult demographic that frequents the site. This AP article suggests that Murdoch may…
