Roundup: Has Della got its groove back? Hulu, Google, etc.
Here’s the latest action:
Dell revises “Della,” its netbook marketing web site targeting women, after allegations of sexism — As Jezebel covers.
The once and future Valleywag — Owen Thomas (pictured right) is leaving to become editorial director of NBC Bay Area later this month. Ryan Tate will be taking over. Here’s Thomas’ farewell post.
The New York Times will figure out how to charge for some content by the end of June — The New York Observer has learned.
“Does Hulu, the Web’s most popular place for TV viewing, reach nine million people a month or 42 million?” — Hulu isn’t happy with a report by Nielsen on its traffic, and The New York Times has more (accessible for free, for now).
The Federal Bureau of Investigation gets social — It has set up profiles on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. TechCrunch has more.
Google updates its US AdWords ad-text trademark policy — More here.
Speaking of online video — Here’s a brutal clip about the online video business and how it’s not making money, via MediaMemo.
Twitter and Facebook investor Ron Conway doesn’t use either service — “I advise them and add value,” he said today at the EconSM conference. “I don’t spend time using them.”
MySpace adds chat toolbar for US users — Similar to other services, as TechCrunch says.
Google Friend Connect introduces a recommendations widget — Read this blog post or watch the video, below, for more details.
[Thomas photo via Laughing Squid.]
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.