Archives: Walmart Launches Classified Listings

Walmart has added a classified listings service to their site. Silicon Valley startup Oodle, which was founded in 2004, is powering the service.
The listings are free, which means Walmart is likely doing the deal to generate page views and advertising impressions. They also now compete with both Craigslist and eBay-owned Kijiji.
Walmart has a mixed history […]

It’s nice to see blogs growing up, even if they are about babies. People.com has bought Celebrity Baby Blog, a fast-growing blog started four years ago by Danielle Friedland. She confirmed the deal earlier this week, after MediaWeek broke the story. The site has an editorial staff of 17 editors, contributors, writers, […]

If you look at YouTube’s numbers, one thing is clear: It completely dominates online video. YouTube accounts for 37 percent of all videos watched on the Internet and attracts about half of the audience, according to comScore. (And if you add in Google Video, that brings the total to 38 percent of videos […]

b5media, a media network with over 350 blogs, has partnered with PicScout to obtain legally licensed images at no cost through their PicApp application.
PicScout originally started off as a content copyright enforcer, hunting down unlicensed images on the web with its flagship ImageTracker program. After realizing how ubiquitous unlicensed images were, the […]

The Web site for Internet-television company Revision 3 was “attacked” over Memorial Day weekend by an organization dedicated to stopping people from illegally distributing copyrighted material. The incident is notable not just because it provides insight into the extremes to which copyright holders are willing to go to protect their work, but also because Revision […]

We don’t know much about Grockit. The company is creating a new way get people to learn online, and has spent the last year working away in stealth mode. Whatever it is, it’s apparently impressing investors: Grockit just raised $8 million in Series B funding from Integral Capital and Benchmark Capital, bringing […]

Blaine Cook, the former Chief Architect of Twitter, takes a shot at his former company today complaining, of all things, Twitter downtime.
The only trouble is, the feature he’s complaining about hasn’t failed, it’s been taken down by Twitter along with other measures to reduce overall stress on the platform. The same platform that Blaine […]

Earlier today we wrote about a nasty survey scam that pre-IPO Intelius, the company founded by Naveen Jain after he left Infospace in late 2002, runs by customers after checkout. These customers are asked if they’d like to fill out a quick survey to get $10 cash back, but what they are really doing, via […]

Earlier today we wrote about a nasty survey scam that pre-IPO Intelius, the company founded by Naveen Jain after he left Infospace in late 2002, runs by customers after checkout. These customers are asked if they’d like to fill out a quick survey to get $10 cash back, but what they are really doing, via […]

As Ruby on Rails devotees converge upon RailsConf 2008 (and the simultaneously held un-conference CabooseConf), performance startup FiveRuns is launching TuneUp, a “social” debugging tool for Rails applications.
The TuneUp plugin tells you specifically where a RoR app is running slowly. If you’ve coded a few ridiculously inefficient database queries, it’ll point out just which […]