On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Dog
When The New Yorker published its famous cartoon “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” in 1993, “social networking” was carried out in person at cocktail parties and the like. Now, online social networking truly seems to to be going to the dogs in Europe, where United Dogs & Cats Ltd. has raised an undisclosed round of funding, VentureWire reports (subscription required).
The funding comes from Ambient Sound Investments, the investment group established by the co-founding engineers of Skype. ASI has acquired a 15% stake in the Estonia-based start-up. The company is developing social networking sites such as Uniteddogs.com that unite people based on their interests rather than connecting users with the people they already know. The company aims to create a global network of localized Web sites and grow the number of active users, according to a release.
The Web sites allow users to make a free homepage for a pet, upload and comment on photos and videos, keep pet blogs and share stories with other pet owners.
Other social networking sites for pet owners have raised funding. Last year, San Francisco-based Dogster Inc. raised a $1 million round to support Dogster.com and Catster.com.
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October 26th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
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