Roundup: CNET sells Webshots, Comcast not alone, fundings and more
Here’s the day’s action:
1) CNET sells its photo-sharing site Webshots at loss, may be ready to try again
2) Comcast isn’t the only ISP manipulating traffic
3) Apple may lose Warner Music, too
4) Yahoo’s Cammie Dunaway goes to Nintendo
5) Trusted Opinion, social recommendations, raises $1.3 million
6) JackBe, enterprise mashup software, raises $9.5 million
7) EchoSign, electronic signatures, takes $6 million
CNET sells Webshots to American Greeting for $45M – CNET bought Webshots, a photo-sharing site, for $70M in 2004, so the… Continue Reading
Trusted Opinion provides friends’ recommendations — but watch for spam
If you’re skeptical of Amazon’s customer reviews and find that Netflix’s recommendations are never quite right, you might check out Trusted Opinion.
The Palo-Alto, Calif, company believes that your friends’ recommendations on things such as books, restaurants and music events should have more weight than those of the anonymous masses. The answer? Yes, another social network.
Trusted Opinion today added the ability to instantly add a recommended movie to your Netflix queue, an interesting touch,… Continue Reading