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Disney Shutters Parenting Blog Site, Babble

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Burbank-based Disney has shut down parent blog site Babble , according to the site, which did not say why it was shutting down. The site had originally been founded in 2006 by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, covering topics around parenting and raising children. Disney had owned Babble since 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands Buys Two Women's Sites From eHarmony

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Weddingbee is an online blog focused on the wedding industry, brides, and wedding planning, and was launched in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Walt Disney Buys Mommy Blogger Empire Babble

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an online site features over 200 "mom bloggers". Babble was founded in 2006. Burbank-based Disney said this morning that it has acquired Babble Media, Inc. , Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Babble is based in New York. The co-founders of Babble, Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, join Disney with the buy.

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Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

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Paul explains the rationale behind HackerNews this way : “We wanted to try to recreate the way reddit felt back in 2006, when the users were mainly hackers. We’re determined to keep this site good, because we use it ourselves.&#. For anyone who attacked me on my blog but used their actual names I left their comments.

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Interview with Matt Edelman, ThisNext

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This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009. ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

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Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. Blair Harrison: Frequency was borne out of a frustration of mine, which is having to visit many different places to consume video, from a combination of social networks, to blogs, to apps.