Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category
Friday, February 29th, 2008
WHAT?!!? Yes, you heard me... it's dead! The "traditional" online dating site is dead, especially paid sites (Sam I look forward to hear how I am crazy :D). I'm calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year for paid online dating. More and more users are starting to ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Not much action on this blog lately, but for good reason. Me and my partner have been pounding the pavement getting the new project to fruition. We've taken a few concepts into play while developing this new project.
1. One click profile import - people are tired of having to spend ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Web 2.0, action, blog, good, reason | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Two new features from Match.com are aimed at getting new users to sign up for the service. One is targeted at the shy crowd, and one is targeted at the outgoing crowd–Facebook.
The Little Black Book feature lets Match.com users find other Facebook members that also have an account on Match.com. ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, black, book, crowd, crowd–facebook, facebook, fitting, shy, targeted | No Comments »
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 »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
With social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace now in the digital dating mix, there are plenty of new chances to meet the right -- and wrong -- people online.
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Grayson Currin, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, who describes himself as a "big, burly guy," posted his band's photograph on his ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Social Networking, currin, fed, felt, grayson, kelton, messages, networking, unnatural | No Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
MySpace is gearing up to launch MySpace Platform, according to a number of third party developers who’ve been contacted for input on the product. While this has been rumored since June, this is the first indication that the service is preparing to actually launch. And we also have information that ...
Posted in Api's, Dating 2.0, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, contacted, gearing, indication, june, platform, preparing, suggests, who’ve | No Comments »
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Google’s goal - to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%.
The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start ...
Posted in Api's, Dating Industry, Development, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized, google, google’s, igoogle, leverage, november, orkut, party | No Comments »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
If you rocked out to Bruce Springsteen, perfected your runway walk to that of Twiggy's, and spent hours playing with Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Ouija Boards, then you are probably a Baby Boomer. Thirty percent of the 85 million Boomers in the US and Canada (those born between 1946 -1964) are ...
Posted in 1946, 1964, Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized, baby, boomers, frisbees, hiatus, simply, yos | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Brad Fitzpatrick, of LiveJournal, who recently left Six Apart for Google has published notes on what he's going to be working on. There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional application which either require the "social graph" or that could provide better value to users ...
Posted in Api's, Development, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Today is the last day to register for the Internet Dating / Social Networking Conference in San Francisco. I will be attending Thursday the 26th, and possibly part of the day Friday. Anyone going? Drop in a comment if you are, I would love to chat with anyone interested in ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Mobile Dating, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, attending, conference, francisco, internet, networking, register, san, today | 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 »
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Looks like with a bit of digging around, you can find a fragment of the upcoming MySpace API. A MySpacer discovered a web album services interface that provides these operations: GetAlbums, GetAlbumsSlideShow, GetImagesCount, InsertAlbum.
Is this a hint of a complete MySpace API to come?
Mashable continues to hit home runs ...
Posted in Development, Online Dating Features, Social Networking, Web 2.0, api, discovered, getalbums, hint, myspace, myspacer, operations, upcoming | 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 »
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
After months of planning, coding, designing, spending, anxiety, etc etc, I am pleased to announce the release of Collaboradate V1. So what's so special about it? I'm glad you asked :) There's a lot of work to be done, and many bugs to be squashed, but it's good enough ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Dating Video, Development, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, announce, anxiety, coding, designing, planning, pleased, release, spending | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Recently I was able to watch, and then meet both Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyOfFish.com and James Hong of Hot or Not after a dinner conference in Santa Clara at the Churchhill Club. I had to pay to see it, but you can watch it here... for the cost ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Dating Video, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, frind, hotornot, hung, james, markus, meet, plentyoffish, recently, watch | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 18th, 2007
If you haven't seen or heard about it yet, you need to go check out DateUnknown.com What is it? It's a reality web tv show by Brandon Fletcher. The premise is simple, and the delivery is awesome. Brandon, finds people who meet online, and are meeting in person ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Just Because, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, brandon, check, dateunknown, fletcher, heard, premice, reality, show | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 ...
Posted in General News, Just Because, Social Networking, Spam and Security, adopted, cnet, domainkeys, mail, message, pgp, promising, sendmail | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Beta, Development, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, soc, track | 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 »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters)—IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it launched on Friday a new mobile application for its Ask.com Web search service to help consumers find friends, shops and services based on their location at a given moment. "Ask Mobile GPS," or Global Positioning System, was launched on Ask.com's Web site on Friday and ...
Posted in Mobile Dating, Social Networking, Software, Uncategorized, application, based, friday, gps, location, mobile, reuters, —iac | No Comments »
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 »
