Turnout is strong at the BIA Kelsey Group Interactive Local Media conference in the heart of Silicon Valley

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How will local advertising adapt during the next few years? What will the winning services and tools be? Matt Booth of BIA Kelsey Group outlined his top five bullet points at the Interactive Local Media conference.

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The outlook for advertising spending has darkened, according to a recently-released semi-annual tracking study from Advertiser Perceptions Inc.

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Facebook has quietly launched a new feature that has the potential to significantly increase the amount of page rank that Google uses to track Web site, potentially resulting in much higher placement during searches on Google for Facebook members.

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More than one-third of top brand marketers send E-mails to consumers, even after they confirm requests to unsubscribe from an E-mail marketing list, according to a study by Return Path.

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Online U.S. retail spending last month grew by only 1 percent over October 2007, the lowest monthly growth rate since ComScore began tracking E-commerce in 2001. The report reveals that the low and middle-income segments are responsible for much of the softness. 

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Purely by coincidence, Statistics Canada -- the government agency -- reported that Canadians ordered C$12.8 billion worth of goods online in 2007, just a few days after the Federal Court of Appeal ordered EBay Canada to hand over all information needed to identify at least 10,000 of the northland's Powersellers, defined as those selling more than $1,000 a month. EBay, which says more than 32,000 Canadians now make at least significant earnings via its site, has for two years fought the original…

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Marketing execs: Yahoo’s not so bad after all.

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More details have emerged about the National Association of Realtor’s “Gateway” project, now renamed for the third time as the “Realtors Property Resource.”

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    Like so many other dot-coms, Oodle has cut its staff and is curtailing other expenses as well.  Although the venture-backed classified advertising aggregation company still has money in the bank, it's preparing for a long time with the economy in the dumps.

    CEO Craig Donato said he made the "prudent decision" to axe 10 people as part of a reorganization that cut sales and marketing positions…

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Comments from a Monster VP and tiny peeks under the covers of Monster’s remodeling job.

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Joe's blog post 'Optimized for mobile people' is right-on.

And here's a supporting argument: INQ, a start-up mobile phone manufacturer-distributor, is working on the release of a Facebook-enabled phone, which remembers what it is that mobile people like to do in the first place: keep in touch. It's not merely presentation of a mobile-enabled Web site, it's a whole new means of maintaining -- and amplifying --…

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Facebook is the social media site of choice for online retailer in the U.S., according to an August 2008 study. But its share of online display ad views is much lower.

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“We don’t need Web sites optimized for mobile browsers; we need services optimized for mobile people.”  -- Steve Yelvington of Morris Communications, speaking  last week  at the International Classified Media Association conference in Miami.

What a perfect way sum up pretty much the whole discussion about mobile right now, especially for traditional media like newspapers.  I can't count the times I've heard media insiders talking about mobile as a technology…

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The Motley Fool’s Rick Aristotle Muniz tells why Yahoo is a good investment, but not without a tongue-lashing.

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Canadian media companies are beginning to 'mobilize'. This month, Workopolis -- "Canada's biggest job site" -- added a mobile service, following Quebecor / Sun Media's Canoe and Transcontinental's The Hockey News in September. The Toronto Star has offered mobile news for more than a year; Yellow…

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