Oh, Oh. Seems like those three no longer own Daily Strength.

"Daily Strength, a health social networking site that likes to boast about the number of communities it hosts (regardless of the number of actual active members it has), has been sold to an international corporation called HSW International."

That was in 2008.

"HSWI only paid $3.125 million upfront for Daily Strength, with another $3.525 million earnout payable if the website continues to meet some page view targets over the next few years. Traffic to the site has been largely stagnant during 2008, however, so they may have difficulty meeting aggressive projected growth curves. (Of course, the easiest way for a social networking site to increase page views is to break up a page that you used to be able to view on one page into two or more.)"

I found that last sentence rilly rilly interesting. I've always wondered why some forums had all posts in a thread on one long page and others broke it up. Now I know.

But where does ShareCare enter the picture? Seems this tangled web is very tangled.

I'm gonna close down for the night but this has some information:
HSW International Reports Increased Sharecare Value
HSW International is a Co-Founder and Minority Owner of Sharecare

http://ir.remarkmedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=585452
2011

Be sure to read about Forward Looking Statements. (grin)

Right...

HSWI no longer owns DS. sharecare along w/dr oz & oprah now own DS.

Per Reuters:

"Mon Nov 2, 2009 8:54am EST

HSW International Joins in Founding Sharecare, Inc. and Will Provide
Technology Development Services To Build Its Web 3.0 Platform
Daily Strength, an HSW International business, transferred to Sharecare"

Here's the link so you can read the entire article.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/02/idUS125602+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102?sp=true

Yea Cave........Old News............when Doug was here things seemed to be pretty good..................Instead of "Team DS" and that silly star........we had Doug and his face..............then alien took over and sucked out Doug's face and replaced it with that star and everything went to hell from that point on...............Doug is prolly buried next to Jimmy Hoffa:(:(

As for "Share-Care"......................they really don't CARE at all........at least not about the members here...........or the site itself, it seems............they just wanna SHARE in the advertising profits:(:(

But, hell....I keep coming back.........but I ain't buying NUFFIN!!!!!!!!!!

Confusing, to me. That Reuters link was from 2009 and the one I had posted (remarkmedia) was from 2011. In that 'remarkmedia/2011 link is this:

"HSW International is a Co-Founder and Minority Owner of Sharecare"

Am I missing something here?
And it does sound like Doug was good for DS.

He was, he actually made DS work like he had planned it to work. Then, it all went down Shit Creek, and Bear has been trying to find A paddle since then.

cave76, Remark Media does own Daily Strength. They also are co-founders and joint owners of Sharecare. (along with Dr. Mehmet Oz, Harpo Productions, Discovery Communications, Sony Pictures Television and Jeff Arnold)

Remark Media also owns websites How Stuff Works and Dimespring. Remark Media used to be called HSW International. Doug Hirsch went to HSW as Senior Vice President but I guess he's now at GoodRX.com as the Co-Founder / CEO.

Regardless of who owns DS, it appears that no one being accountable or responsible for making it a useable site by ponying up and doing what needs to be done to fix it properly. JMHO.

I've often been a vocal critic of DS, sometimes over the phone or conf call but I think actually they are trying to sort things.

DS grew fast. They migrated servers a few years back because the amount of traffic was too much and the site kept falling over.

At some point they decided to use Amazon's Cloud servers. Obviously they were not alone in that, NetFlix also went with Amazon Cloud servers too.

Unfortunately Amazon let everyone down, netflix was down over Christmas.

rather than wait for the next Amazon black out DS very quickly decided to shift servers. There was one failed attempt but now they've moved.

Shifting server supplier within less than a month of problems actually isn't that bad going given DS supports about 1.6 million accounts.

As said, I'm very critical of DS at times but I think they've done the right thing this time.

I have to agree with Fish and even though I question the, "about 1.6 million accounts", I don't see too many complaining.

Consider the few employees(very few) and the amount of advertising dollars and I think it's one big money machine for Remark Media. (even though their stock price has sunk to all time lows) I don't think they expected it to turn out being what it has become.lol

The issue isn't who owns DS.

The issue is just throw people a freakin' bone, and it can be resolved so easily. That's what's baffling. If DS is made aware that the site is jacked up, just send a message or post a note that says, hey folks, we are aware of a service issue, we're working on it, and will post an update when resolved. Period. It's not rocket science. I mean, if DS can make sure its members are aware of an upcoming poetry contest, surely they can make members aware the site is experiencing difficulties. Yesterday was the first time EVER since I've been on DS (since 2007) where DS sent a message to members notifying them of a system issue, or at least the first time I ever received a message So lets hope this becomes the norm.

This is probably the best site for medical and emotional support and I'd be hard pressed to criticize DS over that. In the past, it has saved my butt. But that support can really be rendered moot if the site can't be appropriately managed from a technical and communication standpoint.

To the original topic, people have been venting on DS without the benefit of knowing they have permission to do so. Given the number of rants and ravings on the DS Members Community Support Group and other communities, one could make that leap.

Again, I totally agree with rmb--- the issue isn't who owns DS although I'm genetically programmed (call it nosy?) to try and find the background on issues.

Usually it comes down to 'follow the money', even if it's as simple a reason as trying to cut expenses (an admirable thing for all businesses).

I would imagine that even the employees at DS might be deploring some of the decisions made by corporate ---- and 'forbidden' to complain or explain.

You forgot to (grin)

Sorry it is sooo upsetting for some......


.....you could always migrate???