America Online Jumps Into Shopping Search Well, I feigned surprise earlier today in my post about the NYTimes coverage about AOL’s upcoming Shopping Search launch, and the fact that the NYTimes didn’t ask about their plans for offline shopping… but…

Overture Shifting To Default Broad Match This has been a long time coming; during my time consulting as a core member of Overture’s launch last summer, everything from naming, to bidding, to listing management was in question around in the…

Welcome to AOL.com! Intentionally or not, a mock-up of a potential redesign of AOL’s home page became public today. And, while the mock-up is somewhat sparse and certainly incomplete, it hints at a customizable, personalized experience that better surfaces many…

The Daily Rundown – Interview with James Pitkow (Full Version) The Daily Rundown does an Interview with James Pitkow, CEO of Moreover Technologies. (I recently mentioned Moreover in reference to a posting on John Battelle’s blog on RSS Blender.) Of…

The New York Times > Technology > E-Commerce Report: AOL Expands Shopping Features Quick summary: – AOL is reinvigorated – They are relaunching their online shopping effort – It will include comparison shopping functionality – It will be priced via…

Citysearch, Entertainment Publications Team For Offers The lack of integration between IACI (InterActive Corp) properties has been a mystery to me for quite some time. Sure, there’s some cross-linking, but nothing that really provides end users with a significantly better…

Blogger Help : Does Blogger support TrackBack? I’ve been spending a bunch more time with my blog and RSS Reader the last few days (finally), and am developing a deep sense of TypePad envy. It started simply enough; just a…

Susan Mernit’s Blog Susan Mernit notes a MediaPost Daily article indicating that online employment classified revenue is now greater than offline classified revenue. While this may be a defining moment for the newspaper industry, it’s hardly surprising, as newspaper classifieds…

Scripting News: 9/12/2004 Great, let’s break that aggregated MSDN feed (and other aggregated feeds) into 1000 individual feeds… then all we need to do is teach end users how to comprehend, download and import OPML files, ’cause they sure as…

Old rumors and speculation around media industry consolidation are swirling again. And why not? Since leaving KRI at the end of June, I’ve watched my stock slide a good 15% from its May peak. TimeWarner is bidding $4.6B to buy…