TVGuide.com Taps PubMatic To Boost Ad Revenue

TVGuide.com has tapped ad firm PubMatic in an effort to boost its advertising revenue. "PubMatic has significantly decreased the operational burden of managing multiple ad networks and simultaneously helped us eliminate inefficiencies in our remnant advertising pricing," said Ian Wallin, Vice President, Online Ad Sales, TVGuide.com. "We've enjoyed working with them."

Ticketmaster Testing Online Seat Map Feature

Ticketmaster has begun beta testing a new online "Interactive Seat Maps" for a select number of sports teams. Interactive Seat Maps allows users to navigate and choose from all seats and configurations. Ticketmaster's traditional "best available" searches uses computers to search availability one row at a time, the upgraded maps allows people to look for tickets in any part of a venue.

MapQuest Gets its Own Street View

AOL's MapQuest has announced the launch of "360 View," a feature that may remind Google users of Google Maps Street view. For now, it's available for 30 cities and 13 suburbs in the United States, with more on the way. "We have studied our industry, gleaning tidbits here and there, and polled our customer base in creating a simple, easy-to-use interface that fits seamlessly into…

LinkedIn Launches Faceted Search Feature

LinkedIn has launched a new addition to its People Search Experience. It's called "Faceted Search". Faceted search allows you to search for a person and narrow that search down by specific "facets" as you go along, in order to quickly find the most relevant profiles possible. Users are presented with categories under the following facets as they search: current company, past company, location, relationship, industry,…