Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
WooMe’s online network that can be used for virtual introductions ranging from speed dating to job interviews has just announced a $3 million bridge round, led by Mangrove and previous investors Atomico (which was founded by Nikas Zennstrom and Janus Friis), and Klaus Hommels. WooMe has also added the help ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Dating Video, Online Dating News, Speed Dating, Web 2.0, atomico, friis, klaus, mangrove, nikas, woome, woome’s, zennstrom | No Comments »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only ...
Posted in 360, Api's, Dating 2.0, Online Dating Identity, Web 2.0, bandwagon, ibm, ids, jump, mulling, openid, roughly | No Comments »
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
What’s it take to make $10 million in 12 months in these wonderful times of mighty Web growth? Apparently not very much.
Not very much work, that is. Today’s New York Times delivers a nice, sprightly memo about a 29-year-old coder based in Vancouver, Canada, who managed to put together a ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, care, coder, dubbed, managed, purportedly, sustaining, today’s, what’s | No Comments »
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Now before you start scratching your head on this one let me explain.
A recession is coming, and it's is not question of if, only when.
So why is this a good thing? Well it won't be a good thing for some
people, but it will be a good thing for the FREE ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Online Dating News, Web 2.0, economy, give, pof, recession, scratching, slows, views, weak | 1 Comment »
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 »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
WooMe puts users in quick, 1-on-1 video conferencing sessions during which they can determine whether to pursue a relationship (romantic or otherwise) with the stranger on the other end. While the site is not explicitly marketed as a dating site, it competes quite directly with SpeedDate
The online speed date seems ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Video, Speed Dating, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, competes, conferencing, explicitly, marketed, romantic, sessions, speeddate, woome | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Beta, Dating 2.0, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, algorithm, crazyblinddate, group, narrowed, outright, penalty, scheme, you’re | 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 »
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 ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, General News, Just Because, Site Info, Web 2.0, blogging, folks, friend, mine, moping, needless, pass, weekend | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
This Monday, MTV quietly deployed a Hot or Not competitor called NextorNot.
The premise, as with Hot or Not, is simple: users flip through “profiles” of other users (consisting mainly of a portraits) and indicate whether they think the people in the profiles are attractive or not. In NextorNot’s case, you ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Web 2.0, attractive, button, competitor, consisting, nextornot, nextornot’s, “not”, “profiles” | 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 »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
JibJab has released a new flash movie creation tool, pure fun...
Posted in Just Because, Web 2.0, Widgets, creation, flash, fun, jibjab, movie, pure, released, tool | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
In the cozy Facebook social network, it's easy to have a sense of privacy among friends and business acquaintances. But sites like Rapleaf will quickly jar you awake: Everything you say or do on a social network could be fair game to sell to marketers.Rapleaf, based in San Francisco, is ...
Posted in Online Dating Identity, Spam and Security, Web 2.0, address, affiliations, age, backer, include, mail, rapleaf, upscoop | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 27th, 2007
It's time to get personal(s)! Once in a while you will see me put some semi personal thoughts on this blog, and it's time again.
Collaboradate has come a long way, no one ever said it was going to be easy, and it continues to be a challenge. Though I am ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Development, Just Because, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Widgets, challenge, continues, frustratd, personal, proud, put, semi, thoughts | 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 »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Dating sites have come a long way, and now there are hundreds of alternative services beyond the all-encompassing Match.com and the breakout hit PlentyofFish. If you’re looking for one last summer fling (or just a human for a change –editor), we’ve picked out more than twenty niche dating services.
Mashable keeps ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Site Reviews, Web 2.0, Widgets, breakout, encompassing, fling, human, info, niche, twenty, we’ve | 2 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 17th, 2007
I noticed a small, but perhaps significant, change in Facebook tonight. Usually when you add more friends to your Facebook account, you need to land on 3 separate pages for each friend: 1) the Requests page; 2) a Request Confirmation/Skip This Step page (I always click 'Skip This Step'), and ...
Posted in Uncategorized, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, confirmation, friend, land, myspace, page, skip, step, tonight, view | 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 »
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 »
