Berkeley, Calif. - TasteBook, an online service that lets users create personal books comprised of content found online, on Wednesday launched its service and announced an investment from CondeNet, the digital arm of publisher Conde Nast.

New York - Food website Epicurious.com on Tuesday debuted a new Web-only video series, "Inside the CIA," that will follow several student-chefs at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). The fifteen-week-long video series will profile four CIA students, and also feature blogs and weekly video blogs created by the students. New York-based Epicurious.com, a unit of publisher Conde Nast, claims five million monthly unique visitors.