Brian Blum | June 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
A fascinating session from the “140 Characters” conference last week on “the effect of Twitter on newspapers.” The panel featured John...
Peter M. Zollman | June 24, 2009 | Marketplaces
Here's a really good column, and not just because we're quoted in it. Reuters' small-business...
Brian Blum | June 23, 2009 | Marketplaces
A new Craigslist-style local classifieds site called HereUAre has launched. The opening page of the site is a minimal listing of categories along with a city...
Brian Blum | June 23, 2009 | Automotive
Confused about the new federal “Cash for Clunkers” legislation? Head on over to AutoTrader.com where the automotive classifieds site will explain it...
Brian Blum | June 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s not particularly scientific, but a blogger recently conducted a survey of the dating section of Craigslist in three major U.S. cities (New York,...
Brian Blum | June 23, 2009 | Real Estate
Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer copy editor Mai Ling Slaughter has landed a new gig as blogger and editor of Listed, a new blog on the RealEstate.msn.com site....
Brian Blum | June 23, 2009 | Recruitment
Content submission and voting Web site Reddit has added a job board. Find it at http://redditJobs.com. Reddit says the company created the site because other job...
Brian Blum | June 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Bad news for newspapers hoping that their Web presence may eventually yield some more significant revenues. According to new Nielsen Online data for the top 30...
AIM Group | June 23, 2009 | Marketplaces
Lest we take ourselves too seriously, entertainer "Weird Al" Yankovic parodies Craigslist in a newly released music video. He channels the late Jim Morrison for...
Brian Blum | June 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here’s a deal you may not want to refuse. The owner of the top-level domain SocialRecruiting.com has put the URL up for sale. With the intersection between...
Brian Blum | June 22, 2009 | Automotive
Cars.com has launched a new video player and video landing page which lists all of Cars.com and MotorWeek’s videos. The company says viewing is faster. There...
Brian Blum | June 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Online Facebook-centric dating service Zoosk has just closed an additional $6 million in funding from existing investor Canaan Partners.Zoosk focuses on social...
Brian Blum | June 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yahoo is rolling out the first version of its self-serve ad product, My Display Ads, this morning. It’s a bid to sign up more local advertisers and, more...
AIM Group | June 19, 2009 | Real Estate
By Christoffel Volschenk Private "sales" of houses and apartments by way of online lotteries (or raffles) continue to hit the headlines in Europe. .. This content...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s now official. Facebook now has more traffic than MySpace in the U.S. According to Comscore, in May Facebook totaled 70,278,000 unique visitors, up 97...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitterfeed has relaunched with a rebuilt back-end and a new analytics dashboard. The changes improve the performance and usability of this popular Twitter client...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
PublicCola, a small local blog in Seattle, has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from two prominent Seattle personalities: Rajeev Singh, president and...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $5.1 million to projects aimed at improving community as a part of its five year, $25 million Knight News...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thinking of hiring a social media manager at your company to watch and post to your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages? How much should you pay? A short report...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Congress has joined the bash Craigslist fray. A bipartisan letter signed by 26 U.S. Representatives says they are “disturbed by the number of...
Shannon Kinney | June 19, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
In my last post, I talked about the importance of a real needs assessment when working with advertisers to help fully understand their needs. Advertisers are...
AIM Group | June 18, 2009 | Marketplaces
MIH Allegro, the Polish subsidiary of MIH Internet Europe, which belongs to the Cape Town-based media group Naspers, extended a public offer to the shareholders of...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Automotive
Elise Neel, who served in sales and marketing positions at Cars.com, has been promoted to national sales director for the digital media measurement team at...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Recruitment
NBC Philadelphia has re-launched its local job portal as a free-to-list site powered byRealMatch.com.PhillyJobMatch.com allows employers to post for free and only...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Another sign of the power of Twitter: the U.S. State Department asked the micro-blogging company to delay a network upgrade that was scheduled for Monday night....
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Real Estate
Zillow has updated its iPhone app to take advantage of Applie’s new version 3 phone and operating system. The new app comes less than two months after its...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Real Estate
ForRent.com has become the sole content provider of apartment rental properties on Homes.com. The move isn’t surprising: both companies are owned by Dominion...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Recruitment
Twitter recruitment app TweetMyJobs is offering a new service to clients called Smart Tweet (“Smart” standing for for Social Media Applicant...
AIM Group | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hitwise figures show traffic to U.K. classifieds sites has increased by 15 percent over the last 12 months. Hitwise analysts attribute the bump to consumers...
ray marcano | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
What's Twitter good for? I don't use Twitter much. I got turned off when I got bombarded with tweets about eating breakfast, watching a movie at home,...
