Quoted: In the hours after Brad Coulter’s minivan plunged off the collapsing I-35 bridge in Minnesota last summer, family members scrambled to spread the word. Phone calls were impossible; individual e-mails were overwhelming.

They turned instead to CaringBridge.org, a nonprofit patient Web site service recommended by local hospitals. Details were sketchy, but this much was clear: Brad and his family, including his wife, Paula, and teenage daughters, Brandi and Brianna, had been on the bridge as it fell into the Mississippi River.

Nearly 200,000 patient Web pages have been created since large providers and private hospitals began offering services to help people cope with serious illness and injury.

TechCrunch coverage of Sampa

Quoted: When we covered the slate of companies helping people chronicle family stories and milestones, we left out a quiet but excellent Redmond, Washington startup called Sampa.

They aren’t new, and we’ve covered them before. The reason we left them out is that we’ve had some difficulty in categorizing them.

It’s a good site, and one of many startups that are doing a lot on very little capital - the company has raised just $310,000.

Quoted: Even though online advertising is growing fast, that growth is being stunted, industry executives say, because nobody can get the basic visitor counts straight.

Quoted: In buying MySpace, Mr. Murdoch also bought a tantalizing problem: how to tame a vast sea of fickle and unruly teenagers and college students just enough to notice advertising or to buy things, yet not make the site so commercial that he scares off his audience. At the same time, he must address the real and growing concerns of parents and teachers who see MySpace as a den of youthful excess and, potentially, as a lure for sexual predators.

Quoted: Forget condos and strip malls. Domain names, the real estate of the Web, have been delivering far greater returns. How some of the savviest speculators on the Net are making millions from their URL portfolios.

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Quoted: Ventures that simply want to cover costs - like Craigslist.org - are illogical in commercial terms. But they have the competition scratching their heads.