Steve Jobs might be as adept at captivating a live audience as he is at innovating game-changing media products. For nearly the first hour of Apple’s “September event” earlier today in San Francisco, Jobs made nary a mention of Apple TV. And then, just as the invite-only crowd suspected that the festivities may be ending, …

Though IPTV hasn’t been the primary focus of a blog post in a while, we’ve mentioned it here and there as a local search medium to start thinking about. The thinking goes that the IP architecture of the technology will allow more precise targeting with content and ad delivery, as well as a two-way street …

All right, this isn’t directly tied to local search, but it’s really cool. This morning, at the Macworld expo, Steve Jobs introduced the newest addition to the Apple family, the MacBook Air.

It’s small enough to fit into an interoffice envelope and gets five hours of battery life — significantly raising the bar for laptop mobility standards. …

A handful of articles came out today that together triangulate some interesting points on the future of IPTV and local.
The New York Times examines a few automated ad platforms and services that are following the trail blazed by Spot Runner. We’ve always recognized Spot Runner as a game changer for bringing television ad creation and …

Recently I had the chance to catch up with Mark Sigal, CEO of online video distribution platform provider vSocial. The company provides a platform for advertisers and video publishers to publish and brand videos on existing Web sites, social networks or customized video channels. The key is that it bakes in the functionality to monetize …

As mentioned briefly yesterday, we expect much of the product innovation unveiled at CES to deal with device convergence  particularly with sharing content between Web, mobile and TV.
Bill Gates’ keynote had this theme, but it showed little difference from the messages he tried to send last year and the year before (that Xbox will …