Peter M. Zollman | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
Google has introduced extensive magazine archives and current magazines within its online Google Book Search. You can filter for magazines in...
Peter M. Zollman | December 10, 2008 | Real Estate
Bucking the tight-money trend, San Francisco-based real-estate search engine Roost Inc. secured $8 million...
joe michaud | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Important data from TubeMogul, an online video analytics and distribution company. According to a study conducted by the company, over 10 percent of viewers leave...
admin3 | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
The advertising slowdown has everyone looking at ways to save money or make their spending more effective. Behavioral targeting is coming onto more people's radar...
joe michaud | December 11, 2008 | Real Estate
Slate.com’s Mark Gimein has posted an in-depth analysis on the Tribune Co.’s troubles and pins the blame squarely on Sam Zell who, Gamien writes, tried...
bruce oren | December 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a wide-ranging, 11-minute interview with Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, Sam Zell, chairman and CEO of Tribune Co., talks about the company's...
Peter M. Zollman | December 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Estonia's parliament has approved a law making it the first country to allow voting by mobile phone, according to AP. Estonians were allowed to to cast Internet...
joe michaud | December 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Do you spend too much time on social networking sites? Feel like you’re wasting a good part of your day updating your status? An irreverent and hilarious new...
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 common threads....
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 mostly...
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 came to the...
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...
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...
joe michaud | December 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
MediaShift’s Mark Glaser published a list of tips to help struggling newspapers adopt “alternative business models.” It’s well worth a...
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...
joe michaud | December 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
One of The Boston Globe’s new hyper-local Web sites has run into hot water with GateHouse Media, which claims that Your Town Newton has been stealing...
joe michaud | December 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
A new report sheds light on how newspapers are using Web 2.0 and social media strategies at the end of 2008. The Bivings Group surveyed features of the top 100...
Brian Blum | December 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
If (when?) historians someday write the obituary of regional daily newspapers, they may conclude that their terminal condition was accelerated by journalistic...
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...
bruce oren | December 29, 2008 | Real Estate
California skateboarders are using realty sites like RealQuest.com and Realtor.com to find foreclosed houses with deserted pools to use for their acrobatic...
joe michaud | December 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Ellen Hume posted a thoughtful entry on PBS's Media Shift blog about some evolving thinking about the role of professional journalists and _____ (fill in your own...
Brian Blum | December 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
What were the top online media stories of the year? As 2008 draws to a close, here’s our take on the top five trends to which AIMGroup readers should be...
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....
AIM Group | December 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Joycelyn Marek, VP of business development and community affairs for Hearst-owned Houston Chronicle, is leaving at year's end. Her early retirement caps a 30-year...
