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Marchex is planning to use its Open List site, which has information on more than 15 million businesses divided into 20,000 different categories, to populate many of its well-trafficked domains.
Transforming domains that are single landing pages loaded with paid-search ads into sites with hundreds of dynamic content pages which users will consider worth bookmarking.
The Times of London is reporting “Google will launch an assault on one of Microsoft’s biggest earners today when it unveils its first suite of paid-for office tools.
“For $50 (£26) a year per user, Google Apps Premier Edition will offer corporate customers a bundle of web-based applications including e-mail, a word processor and a spreadsheet. It will compete with Microsoft’s Office, which includes the software stalwarts Word and Excel.
.XXX took up most of the latest ICANN Board meeting. In total the feed back from the public included 200,000 emails and 1300 comments in the .xxx public comment forums. The latest call attracting 600 new comments and 55,579 emails. From those comments 77% were opposed
There has been suggestions that even the community .XXX is meant to represent is not happy with the way .XXX is being handled and as a result ICANN resolved to hold a futher comment period.
ICANN Resolved (07.08) that:
- the revised version of Appendix S be exposed to a public comment period of no less than 21 days; and
- ICANN Staff consult with ICM and provide further information to the Board prior to its next meeting, so as to inform a decision by the Board about whether sponsorship criteria is met for the creation of a new .XXX sTLD.
On the 14th February new rules from Ofcom (the industry regulator in the UK) require all ISPs to provide the Migration Authorisation Codes (Mac). Some ISPs have been making getting the Mac very difficult, from the 14th they can be fined upto 10% of their annual turnover should they fail to comply with the new rules and not supply the mac code within 5 days of a request.
Uswitch.com has a lot of infomation about switching within many service industries including broadband, insurance, credit cards, loans and utilities.
Adobe is planning a new version of its Flash Lite cellphone software that can play video files today at the 3GSM wireless trade show in Barcelona, Spain.
After signing a deal with six major Hollywood Studios Walmart has become the first leading supermarket to launch a cut price film and TV download service [beta]. This is going to put serious pressure on the highstreet DVD and video stores.
Amazon has just announced its new flm and TV download service which is coming soon –
“Amazon Unbox on TiVo” will allow TiVo subscribers to purchase or rent videos from leading movie studios and television networks at Amazon Unbox and download them directly to their TiVo’s “Now Playing List” to enjoy on their TV.
Pretty soon broadband is going to be in a lot of UK living rooms as the various on-demand TV packages launch. The BBC has provided a list of the services (including their own) that are currently available or are to be shortly launched.
Google has started integrating local search into the main results when searching for a local business for example
Cities Car Hire Edinburgh
Small towns Agents Ayr
Zips /Postcodes w2 Estate Agents
More details at the Google Blog
Google has just turned in a record 4th quarter profit.
$3.21B Total Revenue (+19.3%)
$976M Traffic Acquisition Costs (+18.3%)
$1.03B Net income
$3.29 EPS (+39.4%)
Google.com = $1.98B ( 62%) (+22%)
Partner Network = $1.2B (37%) (+16%)
Clicks +22% on previous quarter
GPM Group 