joe michaud | December 03, 2008 | Uncategorized
While it’s certainly not as grave as the murder of a Minnesota babysitter who answered an ad on Craigslist, a Colorado man who trashed his ex in...
bruce oren | December 03, 2008 | Marketplaces
If you’ve been hanging on to a few shares of Trader Classified Media NV,...
joe michaud | December 04, 2008 | Uncategorized
The SEOmoz blog has an interesting insight about how businesses are reviewing their Web presence in today’s down market. The conclusions are applicable for...
joe michaud | December 05, 2008 | Marketplaces
Why did Google really pull out of its deal with Yahoo? Because they got a tip that the company had just hours until the Department of Justice was set to file an...
Peter M. Zollman | December 06, 2008 | Marketplaces
Zilok is an online rental marketplace that allows individuals or businesses to rent anything or offer anything for rent. Zilok launched in 2007 in the United...
Peter M. Zollman | December 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
While mainstream media wrings its collective hands over Wall Street's collapse, retailers and marketers are fixating on reading the entrails of Black Friday and...
joe michaud | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
In an article published on the Chicago Tribune’s Web site, the newspaper chain announced it was working with bankruptcy advisers at investment bank Lazard...
bruce oren | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
There’s little but grim news in a package of articles about newspapers today on SeekingAlpha.com (a great resource edited by our old friend and colleague...
AIM Group | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
Never mind the "might file": The Tribune Co. has filed for bankruptcy in a Delaware federal court, The New York Times and The Wall Steet Journal are reporting. No...
bruce oren | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
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joe michaud | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
Following its Chapter 11 filing, the Tribune Co. has sent out a letter to its advertisers to reassure them that it's still "business as usual" and that the company...
bruce oren | December 09, 2008 | Automotive
Caroline Little, who ran WashingtonPost.Newsweek...
Peter M. Zollman | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
That banjo music you hear is from separate NPR interviews of New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thompson....
Peter M. Zollman | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
Google has introduced extensive magazine archives and current magazines within its online Google Book Search. You can filter for magazines in...
Peter M. Zollman | December 10, 2008 | Real Estate
Bucking the tight-money trend, San Francisco-based real-estate search engine Roost Inc. secured $8 million...
joe michaud | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Important data from TubeMogul, an online video analytics and distribution company. According to a study conducted by the company, over 10 percent of viewers leave...
admin3 | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
The advertising slowdown has everyone looking at ways to save money or make their spending more effective. Behavioral targeting is coming onto more people's radar...
joe michaud | December 11, 2008 | Real Estate
Slate.com’s Mark Gimein has posted an in-depth analysis on the Tribune Co.’s troubles and pins the blame squarely on Sam Zell who, Gamien writes, tried...
bruce oren | December 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a wide-ranging, 11-minute interview with Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, Sam Zell, chairman and CEO of Tribune Co., talks about the company's...
Peter M. Zollman | December 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Estonia's parliament has approved a law making it the first country to allow voting by mobile phone, according to AP. Estonians were allowed to to cast Internet...
joe michaud | December 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Do you spend too much time on social networking sites? Feel like you’re wasting a good part of your day updating your status? An irreverent and hilarious new...
bruce oren | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Will the fundamental, structural changes announced today at Detroit Media Partnership lead to the death of the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press? Or are they...
admin3 | December 16, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Recently I've reviewed a number of small newspapers' websites and strategies, particularly around classifieds. As you might expect, there are a few common threads....
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sun Media, publisher of daily and community newspapers across Canada, has announced it's laying off 600 staff, or about 10 percent of its workforce. The mostly...
bruce oren | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
We’ve lost one of our great sales execs at the AIM Group / Classified Intelligence, and I hope you know someone who’d be a good fit. Here’s the...
bruce oren | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
George Irish, one of the principal architects of the Newspaper Consortium --- and one of the first senior newspaper execs to truly "get it" when it came to the...
joe michaud | December 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has outdone itself this year. Over 1,000 Internet activists, builders and commentators taking part in the “Future...
bruce oren | December 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
There are many parallels in the challenges newspapers and local television...
joe michaud | December 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you lost your glasses, would you post an ad on Craigslist or a flyer on a street corner? You might be inclined to go the old fashioned way, but techies would...
joe michaud | December 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
MediaShift’s Mark Glaser published a list of tips to help struggling newspapers adopt “alternative business models.” It’s well worth a...
