Well, not exactly. Yeah, I’m dropping names, but not to try to impress you with how important I am [laugh], but rather, the very cool people that I’ve had the distinct privilege to meet and/or chat with in-person over the…

Game on! Yahoo has just announced (and launched) a “beta” personalized search mechanism named My Web (a rebranding and enhancement to its previous My Yahoo Search offering). There’s a lot here, so let’s try to break it down. First, you…

During the cleverly named Mapping the Future of Local Search session at last week’s Kelsey conference, conference attendees learned a key piece of jargon for conceptualizing how map providers think of annotating basic map presentation; overlays. A bit of buzz…

ClickZ breaks the story that Google AdSense is now offering advertisers the ability to target at the site level; this ability will be coupled with an auction-based CPM pricing model and animated .GIF placement. Writes ClickZ editor Pamela Parker: “Using…

Spend a couple of days at a conference and the world passes you by. Some headlines and brief comments for topics of (potential) interest… MSN Spaces has 7MM blogs and is growing at 100K a day [Blog Hearld]. Love it…

The Blog Hearld broke the story this morning about the launch of Feedster Media Network (FMN). As I’m included in the launch but have yet to receive a copy of the press release (ahem), I’ll keep my comments high level.…

One page to rule them all… Here’s a single page that links to all of the individual session posts.A very important note: NONE of the participant comments should be assumed to be direct quotes; I did my best to capture…

Event: Kelsey Group Drilling Down on Local Search 2005 Session Title: Branding and the Future of Search Marketing Session Date: April 20, 2005 Session Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Session Description:Search engine marketing built a nearly US$4 billion empire…

Event: Kelsey Group Drilling Down on Local Search 2005 Session Title: How Far Away Is Mobile—Really? Session Date: April 20, 2005 Session Time: 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Session Description:A potentially big component of the interactive local media market is…

Event: Kelsey Group Drilling Down on Local Search 2005 Session Title: Keynote Address: Paul Reddick, VP, Sprint Session Date: April 20, 2005 Session Time: 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Session Description: None Session Participants:Paul Reddick, VP, Business Development, Strategy, and…