Newspapers Are Getting Traction from Their Web Properties

According to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), the average number of unique monthly visitors (UMV’s) to newspaper websites grew by more than 3.6 million in 2007, making it a record year for the industry. The 2007 UMV figure is an increase of more than 6% over 2006 numbers. Monthly un

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National Post Attempts 2.0

The National Post released its new site design and the results are impressive. They have gone from the smaller text with gnawing prominent yellow, to larger images and lots of them, cleanly placed on the home page. The screen width in this newer sleeker post site has also grown, making the content

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HGTV Launches Real Estate Site

HGTV recently launched a new site called FrontDoor that is built on the concept of real estate services and fueled by property listings. FrontDoor will be going head to head with Realtor.com and Zillow and Realtor.com, according to HitWise, was the most trafficked real estate site in the US, wee

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New York Post Partners with Oodle

The New York Post, one of oldest and fastest growing daily Newspaper publishers in the US with 4 Million monthly users, has partnered with Oodle, one of the largest online classified sites.  Oodle.com works by aggregating classified listings from a variety of sources so that users can get access to

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Build It And They Will Come – NOT!

  I think it has been said and everyone now gets it that traditional sources of news have got to e-enable themselves in order to stand a chance at competing. Newspapers get that - The issue newspapers are faced with now is what to do once with the site once it has been built? In essence

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Wii Leading Classifieds

Hitwise is reporting that the Nintendo Wii is the leading search for shopping and classified sites, accounting for 0.19% in the category.  Nintendo has been struggling worldwide to maintain inventory of the Wii and many times brand new consoles are being sold a premium on classified sites.  Other

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Edgeio Shuts down

Techcrunch is reporting that Edgio, a start-up focused on syndicating classified listings.  Throughout the summer the company was continually launching new services to syndicate classified listings, most of them without a strong monetization strategy. No word on the Edgeio.com site about the shu

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Autotrader Revamps Cover

Autotrader in Canada has revamped their cover with the help of Lucie Lacava, a well known magazine designer. This is second major overall of the Autotrader magazine design since the Yellow Pages Group purchased the brand in 2006. The cover maintains the Autotrader signature red masthead and con

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Ozfreeonline.com, free down under

Ozfreeonline.com has recently announced that they are the largest free classified site in Australia.  No source for this claim was referenced but interesting to see the free classified model moving down under.  The site is well design and its very easy to navigate between the different classified

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Livedeal.com and YP.com share platform

Livedeal ( formerly Yellowpages ) has announced that Livedeal.com and Yellowpages.com have consolidated on to a single technology platform.  While this probably means nothing to most consumers since the experience on both Livedeal.com and Yellowpages.com is essentially the same. The big impact w

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