PaidContent blogger Rafat Ali has more details on NBC's purchase of Tribe.net (broken by Valleywag last week). Ali says the social site sold for under $50 million — not quite the $500 million-plus that News Corp paid for third-generation social site MySpace last year.

Yahoo and eBay, two companies that survived the bubble just to get outclassed by some Stanford pricks, cut a deal that embeds each deep inside the other's pants. EBay's PayPal system will handle Yahoo payments, and Yahoo will handle all third-party graphical ads on eBay.

Google and Yahoo buy up internet companies like Jerry Seinfeld collects Porsches. One would have thought that one of each model was quite enough, but the internet giants want a garage full of internet companies of every shape and color. So it is with site stats services such as MeasureMap.