ETonline.com relaunches

Entertainment Tonight’s website etonline.com relaunched with a new look. The new design has more of a blog feel to it, perhaps trying to copy sites like tmz.com or perezhilton.com. It didn’t work. I will give them credit for tagging content to make it easy to catch up on Britney Spears or O.J. Simpson.

5 comments September 18th, 2007

Reuters tests facial recognition video search

Powered by Viewdle, Reuters Labs has debuted a facial recognition search feature that scans across 609 hours of video for the beta test. For example, I typed in Amy Winehouse, and it returned a list of clips making up 18 appearances for a total on-screen time of 1:06. Click a clip, and it plays it from the moment she appears. Mouse over the video, and a box outlines her face with the words “Amy Winehouse.” Very, very cool.

3 comments September 18th, 2007

Study: Local online advertising to surge

A new study by eMarketer says that local online advertising will only comprise 13.4% of the total internet market in 2007, but will surge in the years to come:

MediaPost’s Seana Mulcahy says she believes that local media companies aren’t ready for it. “Most of these companies haven’t even figured it out yet. Come on, guys — you have the audience and the people are loyal as hell, now do something,” she writes.

2 comments September 18th, 2007