Wednesday Internet Digest

Ads:
* Visitors online classifieds +80% (Pew)

Commerce:
* Online sales US Holidays:
-- Nov: Wal-Mart same-store sales Nov +4.3%
-- Week as of Nov 19: comparison shopping +25% yoy (HitWise)
-- Thanksgiving +12% to $144m
-- Black Friday +22% to $305m (comScore); total retail sales Black Friday -0.9% to $8 bn (ShopperTrak RCT); visitors PriceGrabber.com +77% yoy
-- Thanksgiving weekend: spending offline + online +21.9% to $27.8 bn from 145m shoppers (+9%), average 302.81 $/shopper (survey NRF/BIGresearch)
-- Cyber Monday online: traffic at work +35% to 15m, at home +23% to 15.7m (NetRatings); Visa-card spending +26% to $505m; traffic Shopping.com (= eBay) +26% to 3.4m
* Speurders.nl (= Telegraaf) plans Speurders.nl Professional franchise

Web 2.0: user-generated content, sharing:
* Craigslist plans journalism 06Q1
* Kaboodle (collaborative search, social tagging, social bookmarking) launches
* Premiere Radio Networks (= Clear Channel) launches vlogs from ‘Russ Limbaugh Show’ to iPod Video

OS, browser, Office:
* Mozilla plans mass-marketing for new Firefox 1.5 browser (release Nov 29)

Corporate:
* IPO: Traffic.com lowers range to $10.50-12.50 (from 11.50-13.50) (TRFC.O)