Roundup: Google Health’s profiles, Oodle’s Facebook marketplace, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Google Health lets you share profiles — With this feature, users can invite family members, doctors, and other trusted folks to view their medical records and personal health information.
Oodle launches new version of Facebook marketplace – Inside Facebook describes the new marketplace as more social and conversational. Facebook announced it was handing its classifieds service to Oodle in December.
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Facebook hands classifieds service to Oodle
Facebook has spent months looking for a partner to take over an in-house classifieds application it launched in May of 2007, called Marketplace. The app hasn’t gained significant traction in the last year and a half. Now, Facebook has found a partner: Classified listing service Oodle.
San Mateo, Calif.-based Oodle claims to aggregate classified listings from more than 80,000 other web sites. It distributes those listings across any partner site that uses its service, including The… Continue Reading
Roundup: Online display ads are weak, controversial Knol, and more
Online display ads not so much better than print ads — In one of the hardest-hitting pieces yet this year on the online advertising industry, AdAge’s Abbey Klaassen dissects the perils of the display (banner) advertising business. In a nutshell, online banner ads that appear next to online content aren’t much more effective than, well, print ads that appear next to print content. In order for that to change, Group M Interaction chief executive Rob Norman… Continue Reading
Oodle releases upgraded classified search
Oodle, an online classified advertising companies, has just released a new version that makes online classifieds hunting a little easier.
The San Mateo, California company (previous coverage) already scrapes other sites for classifieds and aggregates these listings on its own site. Now, it includes a personalized homepage with your recent searches, so every time you come to the site you can see what you were already looking for.
Other new features include a way to see how… Continue Reading
Oodle, giving you classifieds — with a touch of help
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Oodle, the San Mateo, Calif. online classifieds company has oodles of competition, but venture capitalists have invested $11 million more to help it stand out.
On its face, Oodle is not that different from Craigslist, and other classifieds startups, such as Edgeio, LiveDeal and Vflyer, to name a few.
But Oodle, which announces its new financing tomorrow, is using the money to offer tools to help you make better buying decisions. Take its car classifieds, for example…. Continue Reading