Archive for the ‘Startup’ Category
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 »
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Enter UK based First Move, which just emailed us. It’s a dating site where you create a private profile. You then buy black or hot pink credit-card type cards that have your First Move user code on them - they cost about $2 each. When you see someone you want ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Mobile Dating, Online Dating News, Startup, aka, aki, card, cards, hand, persue, plastic, shove | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Just as it has done to companies in the software, publishing, and advertising industries, Google is becoming a thorn in the side of venture capitalists. The owner of the world's largest Web search engine is scooping up young tech outfits for a relative pittance, giving itself first dibs on hot-growth ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Funding, Startup, anonymity, bang, boxing, funds, google, killing, offerings, scooping | 1 Comment »
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Markus, Founder of PlentyofFish.com has posted a for sale sign on his site's front yard. I'm guessing that he is "fishing" for some offers, and some free press in the process. At the end of the day Markus will not sell. It's his baby, and it's hard to pass on ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Online Dating News, Startup, fishing, front, guessing, markus, offers, posted, sale, yard | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in General News, Startup, Tips, avid, dig, excited, issue, magazine, mailbox, reader, wired | 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 »
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 ...
Posted in Beta, Development, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, soc, track | No Comments »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
Scenario: “Dude, we have to be frickin’ profitable all the frickin’ time! Yay!”You take Jimmy.
Jimmy wants to build a successful business.
He wants to ensure a 100% success rate in everything he does.
“If I lose money, then I will fail,” he tells himself.
So, he studies business books, does crazy business planning, ...
Posted in Just Because, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, entrepreneur, fail, frickin’, he’s, jimmy, losing, starts, wasn’t | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
I figured it's time to share some of my favorite services and products. This list in in no particular order.
1. Stats: http://www.statcounter.com
2. Time Clock: http://www.slimtimer.com
3. Get Funding: http://www.prosper.com
4. Email Marketing: http://www.getresponse.com
5. Affiliate Network: http://www.shareasale.com
6. Tv Ads: http://www.spotrunner.com
7. Free press releases: http://i-newswire.com The site seems to currently be ...
Posted in Just Because, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, favorite, figured, list, order, products, share, statcounter, stats | 1 Comment »
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
Now IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns popular sites like match.com, ask.com and citysearch.com, has launched a youth-oriented virtual world of its own called Zwinktopia, which lets members customize avatars, play games and explore cartoon-like chat rooms. Unveiled April 30 and aimed at netheads aged 13 to 34, the site is entirely free. ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, chat, citysearch, easy, games, shop, zwinktopia, zwinky | 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 ...
Posted in Beta, Development, Social Networking, Software, Startup, coding, invite, myt, mytella, planning, private, years | No Comments »
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Just before 3:00pm today the US patent number 6,618,593 was sold for US$2.6 million at the live intellectual property auction organized by Ocean Tomo (see our previous article about the auction here) at the Union League Club of Chicago. This US$2.6 million bid is one of the biggest recorded for ...
Posted in Development, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Research, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, auction, auctioneer, bid, intellectual, nbsp, patent, price, property | No Comments »
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
We are just days away from launching Collaboradate 1.0 to a limited group of testers. We have really made some great progress of late, and we are full steam ahead. I took a huge chance with Ruby on Rails, and also making a cutting edge site like no other you ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Development, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, collaboradate, days, group, launching, limited, testers | 6 Comments »
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, ...
Posted in General News, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, african, american, ask, fat, iac, launch, man, match, myspace, networking, social, unnamed | No Comments »
Monday, April 16th, 2007
The Web site FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man in Ohio. Jerry Miller wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer.
Jerry Miller is not a farmer. He works in advertising and public ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Startup, dating, farmer, farmers, farmersonly, finder, friendship, jerry, life, miller, pals, pen, understand, voanews | No Comments »
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
VRS
Hosting people's lives online has become big business: services like Flickr and Photobucket serve as a virtual shoe box for millions of photographs, while YouTube and MySpace Video regularly serve up a daily dose of video blogs, home videos, and crazy stunts. But what happens ...
Posted in Development, Flickr, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, Widgets, case, hosting, months, myspace, pages, photobucket, serve, youtube | 4 Comments »
Friday, April 6th, 2007
I've recently stumbled onto a site called Dates Nearby. It seems that it's owned by "NearBy Networks/New Direct Ideas", but contains an NBC logo at the bottom right. Anyone know what's going on here? I was unable to find out more but it looks like NBC may be testing the ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, called, dates, nearby, recently, site, stumbled | 3 Comments »
