Hollywood Reporter looks for Google’s next move. The item mentions potential acquisition targets: Infospace, AOL, and TiVO. In addition:
Other analysts proposed a combination of public and private firms Google might be eyeing, including emerging search companies like Blinkx, TVEyes and Convera Corp.
I’m not an expert on all of these, though I do recall that TV Eyes is already partnered with rival Yahoo.
No more fun in the Valley a view from across the pond on Mike Arrington’s musing about leaving Silicon Valley to escape the current craziness (tags: siliconvalley bubble) Monster, Community Newspaper Holdings forge alliance on recruitment local newspapers team up with Monster for job hunting (tags: newspapers classifieds advertising) From Internet Portals to Social Networks…
The New York Daily News reports: Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned … The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000. (Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics…
MarketingVOX: “Consumer still don’t like paying for online content, but resistance has somewhat weakened, according to a new JupiterResearch, writes DM News. Adoption of paid content is up from last year, though 64 percent of adults still say they wouldn’t pay for content to avoid online advertising. However, 31 percent of online adults paid for…
Steve Rubel labels the latest activity of "swarms of citizen journalists … mobilizing to settle scores" as "vigilante journalism." It’s an apt name for the phenomenon and it will be interesting to see how the debate moves on this. Frankly, I’m torn. Bloggers certainly have the write to "kvetch" (as BL Ochman woud say), but…
I tried. I really, really wanted to go back to Microsoft Internet Explorer. Overall, I prefer that browser to Firefox, mostly because the extensions they have and that many web sites take advantage of. But I couldn’t do it. The MSN search toolbar had me feeling good for a while because it enables tabbed browsing. …
I ran across this announcement today about SearchForVideo.com and checked it out. Looks pretty good. A quick comparison of with Truveo (see yesterday’s post) found that SearchForVideo.com found nearly twice as many videos matching the search term "John Roberts" (634 vs. 349) I haven’t spent enough time to study the differences in methodology, but it’s…