US media giant CBS recently snapped up social music site Last.FM for a cool $280 million  arguably the largest Web 2.0 acquisition in the UK.
The London-based social networking site allows users to connect with other listeners with similar music tastes, to custom-build their own radio stations, and to watch music video-clips. This happens through streaming [...]

The Washington Post wants people to start looking local. The award-winning broadsheet recently launched Local Explorer, a new service on washingtonpost.com, which allows users to get the lowdown on where you live, or where you’re thinking about living.
Local Explorer is a map-based tool designed to explore an area’s communities in granular detail. Established through a [...]

Going back to Bill Gates well-publicized speech (which, as you know, contained some bold predictions on the death of traditional media), STLtoday.com recently carried a story on Denny Payne President and Chief Executive Officer of SBC Directory Operations, and Chairman of the Yellow Pages Association a man who strongly believes the Yellow Pages will continue [...]

TargetSpot, an exciting new ad serving technology and marketplace for advertisers and internet radio broadcasters, will allow advertisers to create buy and place their own advertising in online streaming audio outlets.
Advertisers can create customized audio, video, banner and text ads using an array of jingles, sound effects, and visuals provided by TargetSpot. Clients can also [...]

The new beta version of Yellowpages.com boasts many functional changes and improvements that will definitely appeal to a wide cross-section of users. Though Yellowpages.com is already positioned well in the local search world thanks to its strong brand presence, sales channel assets, and mobile and video initiatives they recently revamped the site and added key [...]

Last November, Microsoft launched its much-awaited Live Search Maps, which offers users three-dimensional and photo-realistic views of selected urban cityscapes across the United States.
According to Microsoft, the free online service will provide users with a fresh look at many landmarks and locations, as well as local listings, ratings and reviews, and driving directions to help [...]

According to John Kelsey’s blog (blog.kelseygroup.com), the Yellow Pages is enjoying an optimistic wind blowing from Europe. He was referring to this year’s annual European Association of Directory Publishers (EADP) conference in Barcelona, in which Directories 2.0 was at the forefront of discussions.
Attended by 240 participants from 29 countries, the interactive program included topics such [...]

The eccentric creator of popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Jimmy Jimbo Wales, plans to launch a search engine that will rival Google in the fourth quarter of 2007. Those are bold predictions from Wales, but it’s hard to underestimate the man who founded the sixth-largest website in the world.
The new community search engine, which he calls [...]

A Sneak Peek into IPTV During the Drilling Down on Local 07 conference, which was held last March in Santa Clara, California, attendees were given a sneak peek into Yellowpages.com’s IPTV Internet Yellow Pages channel.
PTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television service is delivered by using Internet Protocol over a network [...]