Website wiki AboutUs raises $2.5M more

Website wiki AboutUs raises $2.5M more

AboutUs, a website with user-written and -edited profiles of other websites, has raised another $2.5 million in venture funding, according to TechFlash.

On its profile page, the Portland-based company describes itself as “your guide to websites,” with profiles of more than 10 million sites already in the database. When I first heard of AboutUs, I wondered if it was addressing a real need — isn’t it easier to just visit a website itself, rather than reading… Continue Reading

Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more

Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more

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The latest round-up from tech-land:

Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t deterred others from joining the trend. Dell did something similar. And now Second Life has launched a business plan competition for “resident” entrepreneurs. The prize is a little less than US$2k, but it does include… Continue Reading