Healthline Receives $21 Million Injection
In a manner of speaking, Healthline is looking especially robust today – it just received $21 million in financing. And if, like me, you often aren’t acquainted with the names of financial backers, you should still recognize the entity that was behind this gift: GE/NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund.
Facebook Eating MySpaces Cafeteria Lunch
My fellow FutureLab blogger, danah boyd, wrote an interesting and controversial essay about the social network migration of high school students: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace. (Boyd blogs at Many-to-Many and Apophenia about social networking and related topics.) She sums up her point:
Does Microsoft Deserve Facebook?
First of all, think I’m the only one going gung-ho about Facebook? You’re nuts.
ReadWriteWeb is doing a week of nothing but Facebook.
Marketers Can Pay For Blog Buzz
The Nielsen Company has found that high blog interest, or buzz around new product launches is closely related to paid media spending.
Buzz Builds Over Auctomatic’s eBay Tools
Auctomatic is all about “making selling online easy,” and though the company’s service has yet to be released, it appears to be well on its way to accomplishing that goal; to date, Auctomatic has nabbed over $400,000 in funding and the creator of Gmail.
Google Offers Search For Small Businesses
Google has launched Google Custom Search Business Edition, which is focused on small businesses who want to add Google search to their Web sites.
Google Maps Gets Used For Oracle’s Field Service
The word “oracle” has a number of definitions, and they generally relate to knowledge provided by one or more deities – this would, in theory, be some solid intel.
But the Oracle company has recently turned to Google in order to get people on the correct path.
Ford Manipulates Forum Posts To Promote Mariner
If nine out of ten people prefer cookies over rice cakes, gum over chewing tobacco, or champagne over sulfuric acid, haven’t you always wondered who the oddballs are? Well, Ford’s found them, and is now using their online forum posts to promote the Mercury Mariner.
Tudou’s Videos Receive $19 Million In VC Funding
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing site, has just raised 143 million yuan. But because Tudou’s funding was provided by the likes of General Catalyst Partners, and Tudou’s advertisers include companies such as Ford, KFC, and Pepsi, it would probably make more sense for me to state that amount as $19 million.
The Reasoning Behind Ask 3D
Last week in my interview with Jakob Nielsen, he called Ask’s 3D label "stupid". Just to refresh your memory, here’s how the exchange went: