I just paid a $300 cable bill (three months). This is partly because I’ve had little time for bills, but also because my monthly bill is over $100. That includes basic cable channels plus the $40 package that bundles HBO.…
Over at the BIA Perspectives blog, Terence Thomas examines RSS adoption. It's an important time to take a look at RSS, as more readers flock online to get their news and as more consumers adopt a mind-set of empowerment for…
Broadband providers, especially those formerly associated with telco Yellow Pages, are trying to get back in the game of providing marketing services for small businesses. They’re looking to provide Web 2.0 directory-like profiles and search engine marketing services for small…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Who Is Responsible for Yellow Pages' Current Woes? Jim Hail, president and chief operating officer of Hagadone…
Are the small-business “home and trade service” advertisers that populate PennySaver and American Classifieds a good bet to buy search packages? That’s the question being posed by American Classifieds, the second-largest classified publisher franchise with 6,000 editions. The company signed…
Jim Hail, president and chief operating officer of Hagadone Directories and chairman of the Association of Directory Publishers, outlined what he believes has been a systematic decline in the brand value of the Yellow Pages at this year’s ADP Mid-Year Convention in…
In an opening session of the Association of Directory Publishers' 2008 Mid-Year Convention in San Antonio, YP Talk Publisher Ken Clark gave a close-up view of how negative PR in print and online is eroding the perception of the Yellow Pages…
EveryZing this week launched a new video player whose features carry the company's emphasis on video search engine optimization, searchability and good content indexing. Like many of the other video search companies that employ a combination of video indexing technologies,…
Peter Krasilovsky, Matt Booth and I did a webinar this week, hosted by "the Commando" Dick Larkin. The content was essentially a preview of the topics we'll hit during our Interactive Local Media conference that takes place Nov 19-21 in…
Closing remarks at the Warrillow Summit Toronto yesterday gave advertisers targeting the small and medium-sized business market some hope despite the alarming descent in optimism on the current Canadian economic situation. A recurring theme over the past two days of…
Precision Tune Auto Care, which has 300 franchisee-owned stores, is the first major auto-care chain to sign up for DriverSide's new co-branded version of its online vehicle profiles. The profiles include maintenance records. Customers can also receive reminders and special…
Mark Cuban, the dot-com entrepreneur who has launched Broadcast.com and HDNet and now has greater renown as the colorful owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has given the entire local ecosystem a big shot in the arm by investing in CitySquares,…
Search and alert service Yotify has entered the scene with a wide-reaching value proposition to do the legwork in finding people, places and events for you. On one level, it's similar to a lot of aggregators we've seen, like Oodle,…
MapQuest has announced the launch of a mobile site that is optimized for iPhone interfaces. It has a sharp design and is relatively quick to return maps and local search results. It must be made clear, however, that this is…
On the eve of T-Mobile's launch of the G1 -- the first device based on Google's long-awaited mobile OS -- we've seen lots of excitement throughout the blogosphere. The Bloodhound blog has a positive review of the device, based on…
It is counterintuitive that Web 2.0 real estate sites would continue to grow their audience and ad dollars while the industry “scrapes along the bottom” for years to come. The sites, though, still say they are growing. “Fear, value-shopping, and…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Friday Yellow Pages Potpourri This from a guy who has managed most of a lifetime without…
This from a guy who has managed most of a lifetime without using the word "potpourri" in a sentence ... At any rate, here is a rundown of some Yellow Pages-related items of note from the past week. It's the…
TheFind launched its "Where to Shop" application in the iTunes App Store today. I've been using it a bit this morning and it has held up to the test for some product searches around town (see screen shots below). This…
When Topix first came on to the scene in 2003, it primarily crawled local news. These days, the 30-person company has largely remade itself into more of a local portal, especially for smaller markets. It still isn’t profitable, but CEO…