Brian Blum | December 19, 2008 | Marketplaces
Want to search Craigslist from your iPhone or iPod Touch? Now you can. PheedYou, Inc. has launched an iPhone app called CraigSearch. The interface is as...
Brian Blum | December 19, 2008 | Real Estate, Recruitment
The McClatchy Company’s stock ended down again yesterday, finishing at $1.05, a 30 percent decline and a new low for the newspaper publisher’s share...
Brian Blum | December 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has released 12 free white papers as part of the series “Media Re:public: News and...
AIM Group | December 19, 2008 | Recruitment
Monster Worldwide has promoted Michael C. Miller as EVP general counsel and secretary.Miller joined the company in October 2007 as VP and deputy general counsel....
joe michaud | December 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Micro-blogging sites are going increasingly vertical. We’ve covered Twingr that lets users create your own topic-specific network, and Yammer which is doing...
Brian Blum | December 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
MySpace is encouraging users to show their real name on the site. The social network currently allows users to create any name they want, thus hiding their true...
Brian Blum | December 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
We all know that online video is hot. Viewership is expected to grow by more than two-thirds in the next five years, from 563 million in 2008 to 941 million in...
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...
bruce oren | December 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a major executive shuffle, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is back in the CEO role and has brought in former Yahoo Jeff Weiner in as interim president. Out: Dan...
Linda Karlsson | December 17, 2008 | Recruitment
Reed.co.uk has launched a brand new version of its job site with a new design and a range of new features such as improved job search, matching jobs offering a...
Linda Karlsson | December 17, 2008 | Real Estate
Rightmove.co.uk continues to suffer. In June this year HBOS sold its 13 percent stake, leaving Connells as the property portal’s only founding real estate...
Linda Karlsson | December 17, 2008 | Real Estate
Findaproperty.com and Primelocation.com, the lead sites of the Digital Property Group (DGP), have revealed their new individual “value based” pricing...
Brian Blum | December 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
We’ve been reporting on online ad spend estimates in the U.S. Now EMarketer weighs in on what’s happening in the U.K.Earlier this year, the research...
Brian Blum | December 17, 2008 | Marketplaces
Like a restaurant? Tell the world while you’re still finishing your ravioli. Citysearch is taking on Yelp in the fast growing iPhone software space. Both...
Brian Blum | December 17, 2008 | Real Estate
Zillow has launched a new Advice section. Prominently featured on the right side of Zillow’s home page, it combines the real estate Web site’s old...
Brian Blum | December 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Six Apart, the company behind blogging platforms TypePad and Movable Type, has jumped into the social application and micro-blogging fray. A new product, dubbed...
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...
Linda Karlsson | December 17, 2008 | Real Estate
Lars Kilander has resigned after seven years as chairman at Sweden’s largest property site Hemnet.se. Per Johnler, CEO at Sweden’s largest real estate...
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Lee Enterprises said yesterday that it faced several potential default triggers on its debt. Lee has notified the SEC that it will delay filing its annual report...
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
China may have the world’s largest number of Internet users, but you wouldn’t know that from the amount marketers in the country spend on online...
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Analysts from eMarketer weigh in on how the next year in online marketing, e-commerce, social networking and more will unfold. Here’s a quick overview.Online...
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Real Estate
With homebuyers becoming increasingly skittish, ZipRealty has introduced a new feature to help draw more users to its site. Visitors can now estimate what any home...
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...
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...
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...
Linda Karlsson | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
Metropix, a 3D floor planning service, has been acquired by one of Daily Mail & General Trust’s B2B divisions, Landmark Information. Metropix...
bruce oren | December 15, 2008 | Marketplaces
The price of The Washington Post’s Monday through Saturday editions at retail outlets and vending machines has increased from 50 cents to 75 cents. Sunday...
