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Gannett’s “Information Center” project to overhaul its newspapers with user-generated content and data-driven services is making some progress, per this month’s Wired magazine piece by Jeff Howe. Since I first reported on the initiative in November 2006, the company has zeroed in on Mom and College Age/Recent Grad sites – two demo groups that don’t …

Mobile, Online/Interactive »

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Following up on last week’s post about the evolving mobile device environment, GigaOm reports (found via Digg) that a German company has developed an application that lets iPhone users access Skype.
This is an interesting development and well in line with the forecasted benefits outlined in last week’s post. A sequence of events should follow that …

Online/Interactive »

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Here is a sampling of posts from last week in case you missed them (click below to read each post in full).
Vehix Takes a Page From the Yellow Pages
My column for Search Engine Watch this month, Pimp My Vertical Search, takes a look at some of the directions being taken in vertical search, particularly in …