Bill Nye The Science Guy is back in action.  And he is now on YouTube to help educate American people about eye health and to discuss common myths.  VSP Vision Care has created a webisode series called VSP EyeFiles.  The VSP EyeFiles can be seen at http://www.facebook.com/vspvisioncare and http://www.youtube.com/vspvisioncare.  Below is the full press release:

BlockChalk is an anonymous location-based social networking service that has raised funding from Battery Ventures, Mitch Kapor, Founder Collective, Harrison Metal, Joshua Schachter, Tom McInerney, Josh Stylman, and David Liu.  BlockChalk essentially encourages people to share information about the neighborhood or places around it.

Boku has announced that they have raised funding from Andreessen Horowitz. Boku did not reveal how much funding that they have received, but the company has raised a total of $38 million since they launched last year. Boku is a mobile payments startup company and now Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will join the Board of Directors. Boku does not require anyone to have a credit card or bank account to make micropayments.

Zeebo has raised $8 million in funding from Qualcomm and Tectoy S.A. Zeebo is building a low cost game player that uses wireless technology. Zeebo users can buy games at a low cost and download them directly to the console. The idea for this console is to be affordable in third world countries. Zeebo has deals in place with EA, Gameloft, Activision, and at least 20 other developers. [alarm:clock]

The Acer Stream has just been spotted, which will be powered on the Android 2.1 Eclair. It will have a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, HSDPA, Bluetooth, and WiFi b/g/n. The phone also has 512MB RAM, 2GB storage, and a microSD slot. The camera has 5 megapixel 720p HD video recording. To connect the phone to the HDTV, there is an HDMI port built in. No word yet on pricing, but the phone cleared the FCC earlier this week, indicating that it will be available in the U.S. [AndroidCommunity]

Sony Corporation has created a rollable OLED display and it can even be wrapped around a pencil while still showing video images. The 4.1″ screen has a 432×240 pixel resolution. Sony will be showing the OLED display at a conference in Seattle this week.

Facebook has bought out ShareGrove, a startup company that creates private spaces for friends and family to share content.  ShareGrove launched at the DEMO conference this past fall and showed a real-time space for only close friends and family to interact.

Zynga has announced that it will be signing a deal with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) for game distribution.  Prior to this deal Zynga was highly depending on Facebook for gaming distribution.  This caused a conflict because they felt that Facebook was over-charging for virtual credit commission.