Monthly Archives: April 2005

Flat out name dropping

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

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Yahoo My Web personalized search beta goes live

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

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Future Map Overlays: Cellular, WiFi and EV-DO?

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

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Google AdSense Enables Site Targeting, CPM Pricing, and Animated .GIFs

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

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Quick news round-up

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

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Feedster Media Network Launches

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.

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Drilling Down on Local Search 2005 Index Page

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

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Branding and the Future of Search Marketing

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

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How Far Away Is Mobile—Really?

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

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Keynote Address: Paul Reddick, VP, Sprint

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

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