Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

The bubble bursts, and whys it’s a good thing

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 ...

Some new projects

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Hey folks, haven't been blogging a lot this week. I had a good friend of mine pass over the weekend, so needless to say I've been more then a little out of it. I had been moping around, but I found that if I keep busy working It will keep ...

Keep the customers you have

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

I'm an avid reader of Wired magazine, I have been for years. I went to my mailbox today and saw the new issue, and as always I was excited to dig in. After peeling apart the plastic, I took the magazine over to the trash and shook it like a ...

Promising antispam technique gets nod

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

A key Internet standards body gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-mail messages. It's called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give Internet users the best chance so far of stanching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk e-mail. Yahoo, Cisco ...

Facebook and Myspace profit from Virginia Tech tragedy

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I'm ok at VT" on the Internet social network Facebook has become an online bulletin board for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University students to post their whereabouts and condition after the campus shooting that killed 32 people. Some 236 groups related to Virginia Tech have been set up on ...

IAC (Web Walmart) Eyes African American Market for Social Networking

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

IAC/InterActive Corp. on Wednesday said it plans to launch a new community site aimed at African Americans, coinciding with a larger social networking movement away from the mass chaos of MySpace toward better-targeted, smaller communities. The unnamed site won't launch until next January, but it will feature news, entertainment, ...

Welcome to the New Collaboradate.com Blog

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

I finally found the time to get the new blog up and running. WordPress allows me to post a lot more efficiently and also offer a lot more user interaction. Because I can now post more efficiently look for better and more frequent posting in the near future. Please make ...

Google Acquires Collaboradate.com

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

We've been acquired by Google! WOO HOO! Thanks to everyone for their love and support. More to come later. After months of secret negotiations Google has acquired Collaboradate.com, including the yet to be released version 1.0. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's new director of relationships will head the new division. "We are really excited ...