SodaHead.com slurps up $8.4 million

Its name might be wacky, but some investors with deep pockets think it's the real thing: SodaHead.com, a polling and answers site, announced Wednesday that it has raised $8.4 million in Series B venture funding. The money comes from new lead investor Mission Ventures, as well as existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures.

The company's previous round, with veteran investor Ron Conway and Tech Coast Angels contributing, had totaled $4.3 million.

SodaHead was founded by Jason Feffer, former vice president of operations at MySpace, and his childhood friend Michael Glazer. Feffer describes the site as "the Internet's modern day town square," and has said that polling records produce so much information about user preferences that they're a dream for advertisers.

Currently, SodaHead has about 600,000 subscribers. The new venture money will be used, according to a release, to get the word out, support a growing user base, and make some "strategic hires."

[jennavee]

I'm sorry but this site is trashy. I have never seen so many racist people in on place until I ran into sodahead. If you have any morals this is not the place for you and don't get me started on the owners of the site they are even more racist and trashy than the trash on their site. If your thinking about joining good luck.

[boriskin]

You didn't try reddit.com, did you? The site has more racists than alabama in 1940.

[BoyOfTheEnders]

I really love SodaHEad. If you into talking to new people, and really hearing what they have to say, this site is awesome. Many new users are pulled in from bands and other social networks. Any poll can be shared at any time, to let people freely vote, without registering.
The ability, to just poll your friends, is only the beginning of the fun at SodaHead.com! There are also groups, related subjects to search in categories, and a "rave" system, that gives praise to those that deserve it!
If you enjoy voicing your opinion, and speaking with like minded people, please come to SodaHead.

[sincere12345]

I used to be a user on sodahead but i left because it was full of hate, especially by some dissappointed individuals over the last election.
It was also full of propaganda and the worst dissappointment is that it seemed like there wasn't enough done by sodahead to tune down the hate. It was almost like a place where a bunch of "psychos" and "cult members of hate" go to chat and form friendship in political newsrooms and refresh. Personally, i don't see myself ever joining again.

[baredd79]

Your right. It is very cultish. If you say one thing someone doesn't like, this bizzare cult like lynch mob will start bashing you all over the site. It's really strange. At least thats what happend to me. If anyone is thinking about joining, dont'! Go somewhere, anywhere else but sodahead. There's no place to unsubscribe either! You have to email them and beg for them to cancel your account! Just like the mafia, once your in, it's damn hard to get out!

[NemesiS773]

I have been a member on sodahead for some time now. And the site is full of hate. Democratic discussion is silenced on the website. But the conservative prejudice ,racist, and hateful comments run ramped on the entire site I actually thought Fox News owned the site. I am thinking about closing my account.

[SeeTruth]

I was on Sodahead for over a yr. and it is a right wing extremist site. It should be listed as an official hate site. Hate and racism is encouraged by the staff, if not overtly, by covertly ignoring the right wing threats to the left. The HORRIBLE RACIST pixs of President Obama and his family. Referring to him as a monkey, eating watermelon...well you get the drift.
BTW; IF YOU START FEELING IT IS OWNED BY FOX..THERE IS A GOOD REASON FOR THAT. THE OWNERS ONE OF WHICH IS JASON FEFFER, IS A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF MYSPACE.COM. WHEN IT WAS RAN BY ONE RUPERT MURDOCK, WHO JUST SO HAPPENS TO HAVE STARTED, AND OWNED FOX NEWS. MR. FEFFER HAS STATED NUMEROUS TIMES IN PUBLIC AREA'S THAT HE DID WORK FOR MR. MURDOCK. THAT MURDOCK ONLY WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY. AND SINCE HE STARTED WITH MURDOCK AS HIS BOSS ON MYSPACE, HE IS NOT GOING TO BITE THE HAND THAT FED HIM.
I was shocked and almost could not belive some of the views still held by many Americans about other nationalities. And such HATE against gays, liberals...you name it.
NOT surprisingly, Sodahead is frequented by and hate encouraged by many White Aryan individuals and groups, posing as mere dissatisfied citizens.
They have private groups that encourage swarming particual people that get more comments than themselves...that are on the left and debate and win arguments with the right. They have limited groups where only "certain people" can join. There is so much more. It is a scarey place to be, some of the polls are silly, or for the younger crowd. But politics are pushed and encouraged, and without this side of the polling, I don't think they will last long. I would go so far as to say that Sodahead should be on the list of Domestic Terrorist Sites, as decribed in the current regs. for Homeland Security. Since they do not just spout off in words, many of they outright encourage violence and overthrowing the American Government. It is this sort of site that makes me ashamed of seeing the internet come about. Fortunately, there are places like Cnet that help keep us sane.

[SilenceDoGood1776]

your lieing and misinforming the public. anyone can see the first day in sodahead that is patrolled by several liberal groups working in tandum to take over every Christian, Patriotic, and moral thread on the site and turn it into something sick and perverted hence, schizm and his poll concerning the Bush Twins and the Palin daughters, and i quote" which is most likely to end up a stripper the Bush twins or the Palin daughters". no other choice was given no non of the above or even a generic choice and the disgusting paragraph that proceeded the question was totally out of line and riddled with the most disgusting statments ever posted on sodahead and was the question removed NO its still there and has attracted the most disgusting crowd of people on the internet. myself as well as several others who defended the Bush twins, the Palin daughters as well as the Obama girls well we were removed for our comments which were nowhere near as bad as the liberals who planned this thinning of the conservative heard. the site is a tub of pond scum and children should not visit this site, they have an underage poster policy which is a joke and not inforced as the site was designed to brainwash the youth who visit it into beliving what they tell them, no positive influance exists on this site. parents beware, this aint your mamas myspace... in my opinion it should be investigated, there is something fishy going on at sodahead...

[Anysia]

I signed up on Soda Head, and at first it was fun. Then one day I had the audacity to disagree with a "very conservative Christian" and life was never the same again. Insults, threats, racist, sexist, sexually explicit comments were directed at me, although all I had stated is that the newly elected president would do things differently than his predecessor, and get the US out of a hopeless war, and that the past 8 years of misrule had caused the downward economic spiral, not Obama getting elected.

The sheer magnitude of the hatred aimed at me was appalling. And then there was the threats of physical harm for daring to say such things.

Funnily enough, none of this seem to have been against the rules. I couldn't understand why, until I saw a pattern. If you were a conservative who thought Obama was scum of the earth, you could pretty much say and do anything there. However, if you spoke out strongly against such comments, you would be reviled, insulted, threatened, and if you spoke strongly back against their treatment of you, you stood a good chance of having your account deleted, on the say so of a few select users.

It's sad when the site operators are so obviously playing favorites with the forum users.

[twobears1]

I think it is important to kick a little conservative butt at every possible opening, Republicans have lost what little souls tghe had in the first place, McCain can't wait to get to get us to Bomb IRAN along with his over 60 white guy brigade, Washington needs to be cleaned out, can u say TERM LIMITS, these old Bastards know only WAR, and derision, new ideas terrify them, they are all going out of thier minds trying to put Obama into a box, this in itself illustrates thier stupidity, not one of them could begin to match wits with Obama, People like Mccain and Dick Cheney have yet to understand that they Lost, Finito, Game over!!! America has moved on, Anysia don't you ever fear the racist, the skinheads, the lousy Polititians, or in fact Fef, I find that he is not some racist crazy person, he has always dealt fairly with me, just remember that a truth pressed to the ground will RISE, have no fear, Republicans and Conservatives are upset because they are getting thier Butts handed to the by the Majority of Americans and they are fearfull and angry, All we need do is stand aside and watch them self implode, yet another one today SANFORD and his er ehem hike thru the Appalachians, these guys have no clue regarding morals or respect and never will.

[SilenceDoGood1776]

It is the conservatives who are under fire at sodaheads you are either a liar or very misinformed... i have hundreds of screen captures to support my claims, and You? for instance the moderator known as MUGEN ring a bell? disagree with him just once and your time at sodahead is over if not by accident he will see to it you loose your account... mob mentality rules the day at sodahead... decent people dont stand a chance on this site...

[SilenceDoGood1776]

Sodahead is a time trap of hate and deception,and its easy to get caught up in it. the moderators are bias and mostly liberal they allow Christians and Conservatives to be hammered and humilliated by homosexuals, atheist and anti american scum, the worst people in the world reside on sodahead and most of them are employed by sodahead you cant win, if you say something that offends a certain liberal group you get pounded and when you defend yourself you are either suspened or removed, they flood people with their ideals and if you disagree you are a racist, a bigot, a redneck or a neo-con to name a few things i have been called. they are aimed at brainwashing the public and lowering the moral standard of the United States, i still hold several accounts on sodahead but have been officially removed by the staff for refusing to accept this new world order and put up with the crap on this site nor will i stand by and accept what the left has planned for us as partiots. as far as my continued involvment in sodahead, i only keep a few accounts to serve as watchdog accounts and intend to use the information i collect from them in a documentary on my time at sodahead, which will be released on youtube. this site has become popular because it is populated by dramatic homosexuals, islamic radicals, hippies, commies, socialist ,militant gay terrorists and liberal hacks looking to recrute more nuts for their agenda... if you love your children you will block this site from them. your humble servent SilenceDogood....

[snsnhere]

SilenceDoGood1776.........I totally agree with you and have especially since the primaries started in the first place. You have a fan in me.....I would truly appreciate it if when you have completed and released your documentary you would please add me to your list of people to view it and spread the [e-mail]

Thank you very much for your post, when they did this to me today I knew it was coming because i get called everything you mentioned and some things i don't want to mention and I'm the on who got the warning today so thats why i went looking for site like this to blog the whole mail exchange between myself and sodahead in my earlier comment......I got to the point along time ago that i didnt' go there that often anymore but decided to this morning and got whammed ........no big supprise

anyway please keep me in mind

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[Anysia]

No, I did not lie in my above comment. And you are lying when you say Conservatives are the ones 'under fire'. The NeoCons are given free reign there. And wow, are they a bitter group.

[snsnhere]

THIS IS WHAT THIS COMMUNISTIC SITE JUST DID TO ME AND I'VE BEEN A MEMBER FOREVER, I SWEAR ALL THEY WANT IS USELESS DRONES ON THERE THAT NEVER DISAGREE OR USE THEIR OWN MINDS...........I DON'T THINK ITS ALOUD ANYMORE


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Dear user, We have come across some of your content where you have chosen to use personal insult toward other members to get your points across. Please note that when... I can see where you might feel this way at this point and time........however when chatting with mugen he repeatedly use the F word over and over again in a previous conversation with another member and I felt I had the right to downrave him (not even out of disagreement, although I did dissagree )


it was his use with that user that I dowraved him, if you go on to read all of our conversations you will see that I was writing about the constitution and political correctness and the name calling didn't start until he started them and furthermore if you would like to further investigate my behavior on here as far as my use of flags and fowl language be my guest i have been a member for quite some time and you will see that is not my usual behavior, but please take the time to real mugens also and you will see that that is all he has done since becoming a member of this site after he started attacking me i went to his questions and name calling and instigating are what he is known for so if you would like to threaten my account and keep his then you be my guest because if you only want drones on this sight who cannot add any intelligent points of view then you go ahead and cancel my account but don't threaten ....................no one should ever be singled out because of being attacked because i happened to be looking at the hot ?'s and noticed his use of the f word over and over again and flagged him and through him some insults back to deflect what he through at me.............so don't talk about it, be about it and cancel my account if you wish, but make damn sure your canceling the right person here.



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We have also noticed your unwarranted use of flag feature. Flagging is meant to report abusive content and is not a mean to show your disagreement.

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[snsnhere]

THIS IS WHAT THIS COMMUNISTIC SITE JUST DID TO ME AND I'VE BEEN A MEMBER FOREVER, I SWEAR ALL THEY WANT IS USELESS DRONES ON THERE THAT NEVER DISAGREE OR USE THEIR OWN MINDS...........I DON'T THINK ITS ALOUD ANYMORE


SodaHead

re: Personal attacks and Flag abuse (2)
Dear user, We have come across some of your content where you have chosen to use personal insult toward other members to get your points across. Please note that when... I can see where you might feel this way at this point and time........however when chatting with mugen he repeatedly use the F word over and over again in a previous conversation with another member and I felt I had the right to downrave him (not even out of disagreement, although I did dissagree )


it was his use with that user that I dowraved him, if you go on to read all of our conversations you will see that I was writing about the constitution and political correctness and the name calling didn't start until he started them and furthermore if you would like to further investigate my behavior on here as far as my use of flags and fowl language be my guest i have been a member for quite some time and you will see that is not my usual behavior, but please take the time to real mugens also and you will see that that is all he has done since becoming a member of this site after he started attacking me i went to his questions and name calling and instigating are what he is known for so if you would like to threaten my account and keep his then you be my guest because if you only want drones on this sight who cannot add any intelligent points of view then you go ahead and cancel my account but don't threaten ....................no one should ever be singled out because of being attacked because i happened to be looking at the hot ?'s and noticed his use of the f word over and over again and flagged him and through him some insults back to deflect what he through at me.............so don't talk about it, be about it and cancel my account if you wish, but make damn sure your canceling the right person here.



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Dear user,

We have come across some of your content where you have chosen to use personal insult toward other members to get your points across. Please note that when signing up for a SodaHead account you agreed to our terms of service, which prohibits abusing other users.

We have also noticed your unwarranted use of flag feature. Flagging is meant to report abusive content and is not a mean to show your disagreement.

Please consider this message a warning and refrain from committing the above mentioned misconducts.

Thank you for understanding,

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[bethisstillholding]

I recently had my membership at Sodahead intentionally deactivated. In both my personal and professional life, I work hard at facilitating open communication and mutual respect among people regardless of differing opinions. Sodahead's policies and practices actually work to ENCOURAGE conflict and abuse. I had hoped that this was simply an oversight by the owners but after sending several messages to them about it and receiving no response, I have no choice but to believe it to be their goal as well.

The concept behind the site is excellent and I believe there is potential for it to be very successful. However, Sodahead has been taken prisoner by members whose dominant communication /social skills consist of intimidation and defamation. Unfortunately, Sodahead's TOS appear to be nothing but a fallacy, at least in any attempts to address the issue. This ultimately forces anyone with an actual ability to debate issues to regretfully abandon their expectation of the site.

It never ceases to be surprise me after my experience that there are still people who sing praises about the site. Perhaps they are those I mentioned earlier, who mistake respectful communication with hostility. My recommendation to anyone who prefers intellectual harmony when discussing issues, would be to look elsewhere.

[spaniel13579]

Just spend one hour on sodahead and you will see how full of hate, racism and bigotry the site really is.

[Dragonfly62987]

I joined sodahead about a year ago and it's an extremely right wing website. Many of the ultra conservatives on this site are hateful and racist. If your not an extreme right wing conservative than you will be shot down on this site. You can prove these people wrong and they'll still come back at you with insults. Unless your an extreme right wing conservative nut-job, avoid this site.