Yummly, a powerful new recipe search engine, has accumulated over 500,000 recipes across the web. Yummly is betting that their advanced search engine will help it grab market share from existing recipe sites like All Recipes, Epicurious, Food Network, Food.com and Big Oven.
Yummly’s Semantic Search Engine Is The Ultimate Online Cookbook For Foodies.
Airbnb founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, recently moved out of his apartment and has vowed to stay at homes with rooms for rent until the end of the year. Airbnb is a marketplace for these sort of accommodations, which differ from more traditional bed and breakfast and vacation rental websites such as HomeAway, BedandBreakfast.com and [...]
Demand Media has partnered with Joost to handle its premium video ad campaigns. The deal includes eHow, Cracked, Mania and Airliners.net.
Demand Media Taps Joost For Video Advertising Sales And Technology.
AOL is selling Bebo for a reported $10 million. In 2008 AOL purchased the social network for $850 million.
AOL To Sell Bebo For Around $10 Million.
CoupRecoup has entered the burgeoning online local coupon category by creating a secondary market for online coupons. This essentially lets people act ask scalpers on the daily deals that come from online coupon sites like Groupon, SocialBuy, Homerun.com and LivingSocial, which is sure to drive up demand for deals that have resale potential.
CoupRecoup: A Craigslist For Reselling Groupons.
Formspring.me, a question and answer site that started last November, has shown amazing traffic growth this year. The service, which was created by Formstack, now has over 12 million accounts and 700 million questions.
As Formspring.me Passes 700 Million Questions, Brands Start Taking Notice.
In the already crowded travel planning category, Stay.com has announced their own beta site launch. Competitors in this space include NileGuide, Travbuddy.com, RealTravel, Virtual Tourist and of course, the grand daddy of them all, TripAdvisor.
Stay.com: A Killer Domain For A Social Travel Planner With Some Potential.
The NY Times has a good review of the I Can Has Cheezburger website and network of other humor sites including Fail Blog. The Cheezburger network has been growing fast and recorded a record 16 million unique visitors in the month of May (source Quantcast).
I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire – [...]
The World Cup is set to start tomorrow with host nation South Africa playing Mexico. Whether you call it soccer or futbol, one thing is for sure, traffic to sites like FIFA.com and the official Worldcup site is sure to surge.
Collecta, a real-time search company, has added a $4.7 million round on top of a previous $1.85 million round. Collecta delivers news feeds to partners such as CNET and MySpace.
Collecta Scores More Funding for Real-Time Search.