AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Marketplaces
BuyTheChange.com is another Craigslist wannabe, with a twist. It has a business model,...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
In one of those rare unsold Super Bowl minutes filled with local advertising, Texans -- and only Texans -- saw an ad banned by the NFL for it's less-than-wholesome...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
In an editor's note to Buzz Wurzer's recent blog, A prescription for newspapers on life support, I suggested that it was time for newspapers to quit their...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Automotive
The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, has launched a new used-car online vertical, called AutoHound. It’s powered by Boost Motor...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
A flurry of recent articles have raised the unthinkable newspaper question: What if the New York Times ceased to print and went online only. Michael Hirschorn,...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
Will The New York Times bring back TimesSelect? Editor Bill Keller wouldn’t rule it out. In a Q&A with readers on the newspaper’s Web site that...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. --- The value of newspaper enterprises has in some cases dropped to zero,...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
It should come as no huge surprise that the economic downturn has led to a surge in activity on jobs sites. According to comScore, uniques on job sites grew 51...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. --- Insourcing and outsourcing --- hot topics in the newspaper industry. Newspaper companies talk about saving millions of dollars through one...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
As we’ve written about here on AIMGroup.com, Twitter is a great tool for both researching and broadcasting news of all sorts, from the mundane to the highly...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. --- Best quote (so far) from the Suburban Newspapers of America conference this week: "It's one of those things where 10 years ago probably...
AIM Group | February 06, 2009 | Uncategorized
PBS’s Charlie Rose got a chance to grill MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe this week. During the half hour interview, Anderson and DeWolfe...
AIM Group | February 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
In what might at first seem like an innocuous announcement, Facebook unveiled a potentially game changing new feature over the weekend. The social networking...
AIM Group | February 09, 2009 | Marketplaces
It’s about as surprising as a negative number in a classified advertising column, but now...
AIM Group | February 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
You can't make up this stuff. It's a tough crowd out there! When the NYTimes reported today that former EBay CEO Meg Whitman was seeking the Republican...
AIM Group | February 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
The blogosphere is all abuzz this morning over an interview in the British trade magazine Marketing with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. The quote making...
AIM Group | February 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Maine's top court has ruled that publishing a legal notice in a weekly paper may meet the letter of the law, but it's unfair to the person being "served" with the...
AIM Group | February 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
It may be tough to raise venture capital in today’s environment, but clearly...
AIM Group | February 11, 2009 | Real Estate
The Washington Post and Trulia announced today that Trulia will now power The Post’s local real estate content. The multiyear agreement is a bit unusual,...
AIM Group | February 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
We're attempting to round up all the recent activity around newspapers' classifieds for an upcoming article. Some papers are remaking or redesigning sections, some...
AIM Group | February 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
In the most recent Classified Intelligence Report, we talked about some online publishers who are successfully tapping into UGC behavior. They're not trying to...
AIM Group | February 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Blogger TJ Sullivan writing at LA Observed has a radical idea to prod readers into paying for their online news fix: Black out every newspaper on the Web for a...
AIM Group | February 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just as it did with its print ad sales programs a few weeks ago, Google is pulling the plug on...
AIM Group | February 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Federal Trade Commisssion has come out with its report on behavioral ad targeting, PDF available here. .. This content is available free to...
AIM Group | February 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lately, my wife and I have spent a lot of time getting in touch with old friends via Facebook. It started when I received a friend request from Larry. Larry and I...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
When Facebook made a small change in its Terms of Service, the social networking company probably didn’t expect the outpouring of criticism directed at it...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
As if we needed more evidence of the power of viral marketing, check out this graph from the Compete blog. For those not familiar with "25 random things about...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Five New York/New Jersey area newspapers have formalized their existing content sharing relationships, according to reports today. It’s called the Northeast...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Tech guru Guy Kawaski has a brief but wide-ranging interview with Media Post's Kory Kredit, mostly about his AllTop venture and Tweeting strategies. Kawasaki...
AIM Group | February 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
An article in today’s AdAge puts the source of today’s newspaper woes not on the economy but on the newspapers’ owners.If you analyze...
