Archive for the ‘2006’ Category
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Tag based dating site for geeks Consumating is to shut March 15, according to a notice posted to the Consumating forums.
Consumating was acquired by CNet in December 2005 and was later relaunched in June 2006. The sites traffic remained strong in 2006 then fell away in 2007 according to Alexa ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Social network for night owls MingleNow appears to have been a victim of Yahoo’s recent acquisition of BlueLithium. According to a post on the service’s blog, MingleNow will officially close on January 7th. No official explanation has been made for the closure. We assume that Yahoo simply isn’t interested in ...
Posted in 2006, General News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, bluelithium, closure, deadpool, explanation, isn’t, maintaining, minglenow | No Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006 (we started that one), then the Financial Times reported they were in talks with Viacom a month later.
Recent Comscore traffic data for Bebo, MySpace and ...
Posted in 2006, 550, Site Info, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, bebo, challenge, facebook, july, sale, talks | No Comments »
