The Big Portals’ Battle For Local
- Article details plans for dominance in the hyperlocal space by MSN, AOL, and Yahoo.
Citysearch, Twitter announce integration for businesses
- The IAC property is the first cab off the rank to take advantage of Twitter's new ability to sign up for an account from offsite. This implementation also allows a business to claim their Citysearch page and to link it to their new Twitter account. Users of Citysearch can also tweet directly with a business from its Citysearch page.
Yellow-Pages plot high tech road out of bankruptcy
- A feature on Idearc and RH Donnelley, talking about how the two companies intend to get out of debt and back into profitability. The 'high-tech' reference in the headline is a little misleading, as the story concludes with this quote: "When Mom's in the kitchen and needs to find an electrician, it's unlikely she wants to go to her son's bedroom and power up his computer. Sometimes it's just faster to pick up the book."
Publishers Announce Their "Hulu for Magazines."
- Exciting news about a JV between Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation, and Time Inc. to set up a storefront and open standards for digital magazine publishing. Will be very interesting to see how this plays out with Apple, Amazon, Google, et al.
Ten Predictions For The E-Reader/E-Book Market In 2010
- Good piece with realistic predictions about how the e-reader technical and commercial landscape will shape up in the coming year.
Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories
- Meanwhile, Google unveils some work they've been doing with NYTimes and WaPo on a new way to present and consume the news. It doesn't like like a finished product yet, but it's interesting to see these different approaches to keeping print news relevant in a digital world.
Gannett Looks to Spread the 'Buzz' to Advertisers
- The USA Today publisher announces plans to launch a new 'Buzz Bureau', aimed at providing advertisers with more of an end-to-end media agency model of ad sales.
BIA/Kelsey Forecasts Geotargeted Display Advertising Revenues to Grow from $897M in 2008 to $1.9B in 2013
- And just in case all these publishers fail to get consumers to pay for content - and USA Today fails to meet advertisers' demands to be digital media advisers - maybe location-based ad targeting is the answer to arresting the ad spend decline.
