Meebo toolbar gets new sharing features
Instant message service Meebo is rolling out new features for the toolbar it runs on partner sites, including a simple way to share links with the people you’re IMing to. As other companies, like Facebook and Twitter, help make real-time information sharing a mainstream activity, this is Meebo’s way of getting in on the action.
You can see the new features in action on mom site CafeMom, which is launching with Meebo today. Open the lower… Continue Reading
Yahoo polishes Shine for the ladies
While sites catering to females are becoming more prevalent on the web, many limit themselves by only playing to certain stereotypes. Yahoo’s new site, Shine, hopes to expand on this narrow thinking with a combination of original content, female bloggers as well as content from popular female publications such as Glamour, InStyle and Cosmopolitan.
As Yahoo summarizes its idea for the site on the Shine About page:
When we started talking about creating a new website for… Continue Reading
CafeMom cooks up $12M more in funding
While the big names in the social networking world, Facebook and MySpace, get most of the headlines, several niche networks are out there signing up millions of users. One such network is CafeMom, a social network for mothers, that has just raised a new round of funding.
Already positioned well with several big-name advertisers such as Wal-Mart, HP, Disney, Johnson & Johnson and General Mills, CafeMom hopes to use this new money to attract even more… Continue Reading
CafeMom, a social network for mothers
CafeMom, a no-frills social network site for mothers, has raised $5 million in funding.
The site is owned by New York’s CMI Marketing, and gets its backing from Highland Capital Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, who have supported the company for seven years, helping pump $50 million into the company — much of it coming during the last Internet boom. VentureWire (subscription required) first reported the funding news.
The company has struggled, flirting at times with profitability…. Continue Reading