A Conversation With EZShow
Fresh off a day at NewTeeVee's excellent online video show -- the first of its kind that size -- I had the chance to talk to the very interesting EZShow. The company has been around for a little while but…
FatDoor Take 2, With Dulski at Helm
FatDoor, the well-funded social network based on the privacy-cringing aspects of crawling neighbor information, is going to remain “social” but is likely to change many of its initial directions, perhaps focusing on more personal features. This is the word from…
Andrew Day: Publishers Need 30% Online Revenues
Truvo CEO Andrew Day said directory publishers need to generate 30 percent of total revenues from online sources relatively soon in order to have a strong business going forward. "Those who are at 10 percent to 15 percent online will…
Green Is Local
I ran across the new (to me) site EcoMetro, which is attempting to build an advertising business around green. This from its Web site: At the core of EcoMetro is the idea that many people want to buy green products…
B2B Local Search — Canada's Weak Link
Closing remarks at the Warrillow Conference in Toronto this week confirmed major opportunities for business-to-business platforms in Canada. Major Canadian national brands that target the 2.3 million small businesses in Canada plan on increasing their online media budgets in 2008.…
B2B Local Search — Canada’s Weak Link
Closing remarks at the Warrillow Conference in Toronto this week confirmed major opportunities for business-to-business platforms in Canada. Major Canadian national brands that target the 2.3 million small businesses in Canada plan on increasing their online media budgets in 2008.…
Reserve Your Spot Now
There's an interesting "new" company that's been launched to deal with one of life's headaches and frankly an afterthought -- parking. ParkingCarma, now in beta, sets out to make sure there's a parking spot waiting for you at the local BART…
NewTeeVee Live Keynote: AT&T's Ralph de la Vega
Here at GigaOm's NewTeeVee Live event, it's a who's who of players in the small but growing online video space. AT&T's $6 billion investment in its U-Verse IPTV rollout will get 8 million subscribers by the end of the year…
NewTeeVee Live Keynote: AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega
Here at GigaOm's NewTeeVee Live event, it's a who's who of players in the small but growing online video space. AT&T's $6 billion investment in its U-Verse IPTV rollout will get 8 million subscribers by the end of the year…
YPG New Zealand's Yellow Goes Mobile
Joining the ever growing list of publishers striking deals with mobile phone companies, Yellow Pages Group New Zealand announced a deal with Vodefone to carry its content on the Vodefone Live mobile service. The service is expected to begin in…
YPG New Zealand’s Yellow Goes Mobile
Joining the ever growing list of publishers striking deals with mobile phone companies, Yellow Pages Group New Zealand announced a deal with Vodefone to carry its content on the Vodefone Live mobile service. The service is expected to begin in…
Ripple Adds Borders Books
Yesterday in The New York Times, Borders Books announced that it has partnered with Ripple to put digital monitors in hundreds of its stores across the country. By the end of February, the company expects two monitors for its Borders TV…
Canadian Small Businesses Use Social Networks
I attended Warrillow & Co.'s Canadian conference in Toronto this morning where more than a hundred eager marketing managers gathered to hear about the latest trends in reaching the 2.3 million small businesses in Canada. John Warrillow’s opening presentation referenced…
Zillow Teams With Yahoo!’s Newspaper Consortium – Without Yahoo!
Zillow is set to provide its 4 million users, Zestimate capabilities, and EZ Ads platform and nascent set of national listings to 285 newspapers, including many members of Yahoo!'s newspaper consortium. It's very much a two-way street. The newspapers, for their…
Video: Google's New Mobile Platform in Action
Google's Software Development Kit for its open source mobile operating system, Android, was released today (see last week's post for background). Google has also produced a video that demos some of the applications that can be developed for Android. A…
Video: Google’s New Mobile Platform in Action
Google's Software Development Kit for its open source mobile operating system, Android, was released today (see last week's post for background). Google has also produced a video that demos some of the applications that can be developed for Android. A…
The Shift to Verticals: Zornosa Joins Cobalt’s Dealix
The brain drain to verticals continues. The latest executive to cross over is Anna Zornosa, who is joining Dealix as executive vice president and general manager. Dealix is Cobalt's provider of sales leads to auto dealers. Zornosa most recently ran…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
In case you missed any posts, here is a weekly recap of select happenings in local search, Yellow Pages and online media. Read below to read each post in full. LiveDeal Gets More Social Classifieds aggregator LiveDeal has been on…
LiveDeal Gets More Social
Classified aggregator LiveDeal has been on a roll this year in bringing new content into the fold to become more competitive as an overall local search destination. First it brought directory listings (via YP.com acquisition of LiveDeal) to complement its…
MerchantCircle Gets IAC Money, 250,000 'Members'
MerchantCircle is claiming a registered base of 250,000 small businesses. That’s a lot -- a penetration of 4.8 percent of the 12 million U.S. businesses that advertise. It has also announced $10 million of new funding, adding the likes of…