Keep the customers you have

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

IDate / Social Networking Con: SF

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 doing so. I look forward [...]

Pageflakes launches “blizzard”, will it cause a storm?

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 use, and/or make public pages [...]

The page view is dead.

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 finally 3) back to the [...]

Match.com and True.com Both Trash

While opening my credit card bill today, I noticed that I had been charged a subscription fee by Match.com, an account I had canceled months back. I was pretty frustrated with this, so I called the 800 number to see what was going on. After getting the operator on the phone, I explained that I [...]

MySpace API taking shape?

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 (had to do it, it’s [...]

HotOrNot is Hot on branding

San Francisco based HotOrNot, a popular online dating site which has broken most of the de-facto rules of running a silicon valley startup, is shaking things up again.For the last several months they’ve been testing a new service called Hotlists, which lets users add a little brand bling to their profile and build out their [...]