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I’m calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year [...]
Who owns your friends (or rather the list of who your friends are and how they are connected to you) has been a big source of debate in the social networking world. Control over that data is what makes social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn so potentially valuable. Yet there has also been a [...]
Google product manager Amar Gandhi announced in a blog post on Tuesday night that there have been “a couple of modifications” to the company’s release of OpenSocial compatibility for its Orkut social network. In other words, there appears to be some red tape. Instead of immediately rolling out the Orkut platform, which it was [...]
Tag based dating site for geeks Consumating is to shut March 15, according to a notice posted to the Consumating forums.
Consumating was acquired by CNet in December 2005 and was later relaunched in June 2006. The sites traffic remained strong in 2006 then fell away in 2007 according to Alexa (the site was too small [...]
Congrats to James and Jim! This couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. The integration with facebook, is what put HotorNot over the edge into something viable. It’s gonna be interesting to see what happens to the site under new ownership…
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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 of Oliver Jung to aid [...]