Monthly Archives: November 2007

ILM:07 –Chamath Palihapitiya on Facebook’s Local Opportunity

Facebook VP of Product Development Chamath Palihapitiya, during a keynote at our ILM:07 conference in LA, says Facebook is keenly interested in driving local advertising via local media partners, its own outreach efforts and other means.
Just six months after opening up beyond the college and high school student market, Facebook now has 55 million active […]

ILM: 07 — Yellowpages.com’s Charles Stubbs on InGenio Purchase

At the Interactive Local Media: 07 conference that we are holding in Los Angeles, we got Yellowpages.com President Charles Stubbs to drop in as an unannounced speaker to talk about the InGenio purchase. Speculation puts the size of the InGenio purchase, which should close in early 2008, at being anywhere from $75 million to $200 […]

Mixpo: SMB Videos Need to be ‘Actionable’

Video production and uploads have become standard upsells for Internet Yellow Pages, local portals and sales organizations in the age of YouTube. But once a business has a video, what do they do really do with it? How do they drive actions?
That’s the question the gang at Mixpo has been trying to answer for the […]

Amazon’s Kindle e-Reader Signs 7 Newspapers

Amazon yesterday launched a $399 electronic black and white e-reader called “Kindle” that can quickly download books, and customized versions of newspapers, magazines and blogs over a limited use, free EVDO network. Seven newspapers are included in the first batch of content, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, […]

Freedom Focuses on ‘Medium-Sized’ Businesses

Freedom Interactive President Michael Mathieu told attendees of Piper Jaffray’s Global Internet Summit last week in Laguna Beach, CA that his sales teams are focusing on selling a broad array of local marketing products to medium-sized businesses (i.e. a notch below newspapers’ typical focus on large local advertisers, such […]

My Subscribers: 1,207 RSS, 213 Feedblitz, 107 Atom

How obscure is local, and more to the point, The Local Onliner? Not very.
My excellent Web guy Daniel Amara recently ran Google Analytics for me. It turns out this blog is on 1,207 RSS feeds, 107 Atom feeds and 213 Feedblitz emails. That makes me feel good! Thank you readers!
When you think of all the […]

FatDoor Take 2, With Dulski at Helm

FatDoor, the well-funded social network based on the privacy-cringing aspects of crawling neighbor information, is going to remain “social” but is likely to change many of its initial directions, perhaps focusing on more personal features. This is the word from Jennifer Dulski, who has just left as head of Yahoo! Marketplaces to take […]