Archive for the ‘Beta’ Category
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Sex and spontaneity are the two magic ingredients for a new startup called CrazyBlindDate, which launches today in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco after beta testing in Austin, Texas for over a month.
The idea behind CrazyBlindDate is to bring the scheme of blind dating to the web. Sign ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Some big things to announce.
Collaboradate.com is going away :( But wait! Not to worry, just the name is going away. I'm excited to announce that I've brought in a partner, and this was the first order of business.
We are not set on the new name yet, but over the past ...
Posted in Api's, Beta, Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Development, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, announce, brought, excited, order, partner, past, wait, worry | No Comments »
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight.
Other “founding partners” of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, ...
Posted in Api's, Beta, Dating 2.0, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, addition, hyves, imeem, ning, officially, opensocial, plaxo, salesforce | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Another study about online social networks has discovered the obvious: people with photos are more likely to be contacted by strangers, and girls get more unwarranted attention than guys. Perhaps the next study could address the “hottness” factor?
A survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that ...
Posted in Beta, Finding Love Online, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Research, barrage, contacted, girls, guys, porn, strangers, study, tricking | No Comments »
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Customized home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this morning under what it is calling its “Blizzard” release.Among all of the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social networking and customizable themes on pages.Until today Pageflakes users could create pages for their own ...
Posted in Beta, O-U, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Widgets, common, customizable, effectively, interests, pageflakes, pages, shot, shown | No Comments »
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
"In all, I like all the features that have gone into the creation of Collaboradate. Many of these can be applied across the board to other social networks for useful purposes and easy ways to encourage virality within a highly customized interface."
Hey Thanks guys :)
You can read it in it's ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, Widgets, applied, creation, customized, encourage, highly, interface, purposes, virality | No Comments »
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Earlier this week, Jeff Blum was out buying a sandwich when his mind wandered toward his social life. So he got out his cellphone and sent a text message with his work ZIP Code to MeetMoi, a new mobile dating service. Within minutes, his phone received the profile of ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Reviews, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, began, blum, gps, location, match, meetmoi, minutes, mobile, received, worked, years | No Comments »
Friday, June 1st, 2007
Today, the product launches for everyone to use. Gizmoz is also announcing a $6.3 million Series A funding round from Benchmark Capital and Columbia Capital and distribution partnerships with RockYou and Freewebs.
These are animated, talking, 3D images that can be embedded on any website. When compared to what ...
Posted in Beta, Online Dating Features, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Widgets, clips, express, gizmoz, video | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
If your anything like me, you try to keep track of all the dating, social networking, event, photo sharing, etc. etc. sites that spring up. Here comes upsocial! Keep track of, and vote up and down any social related websites. Go stop by and add your site, or ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Hong and Young decided to rip apart their business model and remove the requirement for members to have premium accounts to talk to each other. A month ago, the requirement was turned off, and about $500k/month in revenue disappeared overnight. The founders also turned the company into a proper “C” ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Online Dating Features, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, founders, hong, hotornot, model, month, requirement, revenue, turned, young | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
The time had come for me to start to solicit partners for the upcoming release of Collaboradate.com
Some of the types of partners we are looking for are:
1. Dating sites: Do you want to include your user names predominately in our search results? More clicks = more page views for you. ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Development, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, Widgets, include, names, partners, predominately, results, solicit, upcoming | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
HotorNot, the famed photo rating site that has spawned many, many copycat motifs, has added a few new features.One being their new free status. You no longer have to purchase a premium account to enjoy all the benefits of the Hot Or Not site. But that’s not all they’ve marked ...
Posted in Beta, Development, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, benefits, dangerous, digg, hot, hotornot, marked, that’s, wrong | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Markus at plentyoffish is predicting the decline of the online dating industry as a whole:
"Another year or 2 of social networking growth in the US and companies like Match.com, True.com are in serious trouble, although I don’t think Eharmony will feel much of an impact."
I think that ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Development, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, dating, fish, lavalife, markus, match, plenty, plentyoffish, predicting, singles, socialnetwork, true, yahoo | No Comments »
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Since when do über hotties need a specialized online dating service? If evolutionary psychology and People magazine teach us anything, it’s this: When it comes to hooking up, the only thing the most attractive of the species need do is walk outside.
Hence the intrinsically flawed business model behind HotEnough.org, a ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, H-N, Online Dating News, Site Info, Site Reviews, Startup, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, club, dating, derek, flawed, hotenough, love, members, model, org, party, periodic, personals, relationships, singles, species | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Well after a year of planning and research, and almost 2 years of coding, the Mytella Private Beta has launched. As a thanks for all my blog readers, I would like to invite you to download and try the Mytella software. What is Mytella? Well I'm not going to broadcast ...
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