If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A new contextual ad network has been launched by Ask.com which it hopes will offer an alternative to Google’s AdSense, ClickZ reports. The system will bolster Ask’s search advertising and will initially launch on Match.com, Ticketmaster and other platforms [...]
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 matchmaking Web site exclusively for [...]
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 it to the world just [...]
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 intellectual property during a live [...]
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 have ever seen. You have [...]
Hitwise, the ISP information aggregator (aka. stats company), has been acquired by Experian, a global information solutions company, for a reported $240 million.
Hitwise, founded in 1998, has become a staple for comparative website statistical analysis. In an effort to expand their company’s offerings capabilities, Experian is acquiring Hitwise to add more value for their clients. [...]
Online dating site eHarmony.com continues to amass scores of data to fuel its online relationship service for 15 million registered users. The company 18 months ago deployed clustered storage systems to handle the photos, images, logs and other content types it has added to the online profiles it stores for its users. In an [...]
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 Facebook, a sign that Internet [...]
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, advice and local business information, [...]
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 relations. But he represents a [...]