A Bunch of Stuff I Didn’t Get To

Here are some items that I’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t been able to:

• Urban Mapping opens up its mass transit API to developers for free.
• Razorfish’s Digital Mom report is full of great data about Mom behaviors online. Remember, moms are the most important (from a commerce perspective) constituency online
• PaidContent reports on the NYTimes seeking additional ways to make money including potentially changing for content. The recession may be a good time to test out subscription models — again.
• IAC’s ServiceMagic unit bought Market Hardware, which is a web development/hosting and marketing firm targeting SMBs that takes a vertical approach to customer acquisition. Peter Krasilovsky has additional numbers a detail. Congratulations to Market Hardware CEO Brian Kraff who built a real business over a period of several years.
• ServiceMagic had Q4 2008 revenues of just over $25 million. Indeed it and Citysearch are among the stronger units at what remains of IAC. One question in my mind is will Citysearch start offering MarketHardware’s web development capabilities?
• Google has apparently been testing this feature since 2007 but now offers a “show products” plus box:

For those that offer local store inventory data, will we start seeing that sort of thing as well? ShopLocal has some interesting things up its sleve in this area.