Time Inc. is bringing back to life Health.com to capitalize on the growing demand for online health information and services. The relaunched portal will include an interactive component to enhance the user experience, feature blogs, a full symptom and drug database, and tips on healthy living.

Health.com will join an already crowded space. The leader in the space is WebMD, with 19.9 million unique visitors, Waterfront Media’s Everyday Health, with 14.7 million uniques; AOL Body, with 12.1 million; Revolution Health, with 11.5 million; and the National Institutes for Health at NIH.gov, with 9.6 More»

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Craigslist has responded to eBay’s lawsuit filed against Craigslist and its board of directors.

We are surprised and disappointed by eBay’s unfounded allegations, which came to us out of the blue, without any attempt to engage in a dialogue with us.
Coming from a shareholder that views craigslist as a prime competitor, filing suit without so much as mentioning these assertions beforehand seems unethical, and hints at ulterior motives.
Ensuring the future well-being of craigslist and the craigslist community is admittedly very important to us. But Ebay has absolutely no reason to feel threatened here More»

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Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013, according to a report by Forrester Research. The top priority for enterprises will be social media applications and tools and most of the money is expected to flow to social networking tools and mashups.
Forrester defines Enterprise 2.0 as the corporate version of Web 2.0. Here’s the research firm’s definition:

In Forrester’s view, the key hallmark of Web 2.0 is efficiency for end users, and the ultimate goal is to use technology like More»

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Google has befriended Salesforce.com and recruited the company to battle Microsoft. Salesforce’s customer relationship management software and Google’s suite of office productivity applications, which includes e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets programs will be integrated into a single software package that will be offered over the web.
The offering competes with Microsoft’s customer relationship management software, which is integrated with the its Office suite. Google is seeking to displace Microsoft by offering a web based alternative.
Dave Girouard, Google’s Vice President said the product would have new features like letting users keep track of e-mail sent More»

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Google just announced the creation of an online marketplace for Google-related solutions released by 3rd parties. The site named “Google Solutions Marketplace” will organize 3rd party solutions built by using Google components. The aim of the site is to simplify match-making between the customers, products and professional services.
The Marketplace’s initial focus is to connect customers of communications and collaboration products like Google Apps and Enterprise search with 3rd parties that sell complementary products and services.
For users, the Marketplace has search, browse, and end-user ratings to make it easy to locate More»

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HP is rolling out a new service to move file storage from your computer to the internet. HP Upline is the company’s take on cloud computing where data and applications are stored in the internet cloud versus locally. The service will provide unlimited storage to SMEs, home offices, and end consumers. Plans start at $59 to $299 per year for storing, sharing, and backing up files. A free, basic, and limited service is also available.

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Henry Blodget has done some great analysis on the valuation of Craigslist.com which he pegs at around $5 billon. I asked Craig some questions at the Web 2.0 Conference and Expo in January to come up with a valuation. Here is my take base on my discussion with Craig:
Pageviews Craig said that they are doing about 10 billion pageviews a month.
BandwidthI figure given Craigslists traffic they would get preferential committed rates for bandwidth and I would guess based on my experience that it about More»

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While US social networks are waiting on advertisers to shifting their ad spending their way. Tencent, a Chinese internet portal which operates QQ.com is not banking on advertising. The company reported revenues of $523 million and an operating profit of $224 million. About 60% of the revenue came from services like games, virtual currency called QQ coin (which is fake currency paid for with real money), an additional 21% came from mobile services like ringtones and only 13% came from online advertising. QQ.com is reported to have More»

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Barack Obama’s campaign spent $1 million on Google for the month of February 2008 versus $67,000 for Hillary Clinton, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Barack’s also outspent Clinton on social networking sites and other web properties. Barack spent more on new media than Clinton who spent heavily on old media. Barack raised $45 million online in February versus $30 million for Clinton. Here is a break down of their media related expenditure for 2008 up to today from the best available public sources.
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Is Google evolving into a portal? That was the debate at SES New York. Of the 1.2 billion or so search queries on Google during a one-week period in January 2008, 17% of the queries were sent to Google destinations reports James Lamberti, SVP, Search and Media, comScore.
“The search result page is beginning to operate as a destination. The consumers are a priority. Not the marketers,” said Lamberti. Google sent nearly 400 million search referrals to their own multi-media properties, such as YouTube, over six months. That includes 148 million referrals to YouTube and More»

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