TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Palm Pre: What Will It Mean for Users (and…
Glympse: ‘Share Your Where’ Mobile App Launches
I've spent some time over the past few weeks talking to Glympse, a company that is today launching its flagship mobile local product. Or perhaps I should call it a…
Will Tweet for New Business: Part II (Plus Twitter Parodies)
Following up on last week's post about utilizing Twitter for local advertising, Local Search News' Steve Espinosa argues that Twitter itself should provide better tools to do this. The gist…
BIA/Kelsey Expert Commentary: Booth on 2008 IAB Ad Revenue Results
The IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers are out with their semi-annual report on the online ad market. IAB/PWC say that interactive revenues were $23.4 billion for 2008, which is up 10.6 percent…
How Can Google Improve? Local Execs Comment
We all live in Google’s world now. Nobody would dispute that there are many positives associated with that. But how do industry practitioners really feel about it?. Can it be…
Marketplaces 2009: Active Network CEO Dave Alberga
Vertical networks can leverage their knowledge of their consumers to sell marketers wide-ranging research and media programs, according to Active Network CEO Dave Alberga, who keynoted at the Marketplaces 2009…
MySpace’s Jeff Berman Kicks Off Marketplaces ’09
Marketplaces is under way with the opening keynote from Jeff Berman, MySpace president of sales and marketing. MySpace has made some inroads to attracting SMBs to use the social network…
The NY Times Goes Hyperlocal With ‘The Local’
The New York Times has largely steered clear of local business advertising since its unsuccessful foray into local sales in the late 1990s, when it was working with Zip2. But…
Google Gets Into Mobile Social Game, Launches Latitude
Google today announced the launch of its mobile social networking tool Latitude. This will be a component of Google Maps for Mobile and will work within native mapping applications of…
Online Video Ads Just Got a Lot More Interesting
The name of the game in online video is integrating ads in ways that are unobtrusive and contextually relevant. These are simply rules we have to live by, as standards…