Preemptive Relationship Lurking

by David Evans on June 6, 2006 · 0 comments

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SinglestatlogoTech Crunch tells us about SingleStat.us, a $3.95 service that alerts you when anyone’s relationship status changes on their Myspace profile. SinleStat.us is free if you mention Singlestat.

I love ideas like this, a few days to create, simple to use and has the potential to be super-viral. Anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of web programming can churn out a ton of these little apps, which can quickly be adopted by thousands of people in short order.

I just got done tweaking my Myspace profile with new templates and looking at all of the new goodies that people are coming up with to make your page even more cross-eyed. There are a handful of people making considerable amounts of money offering everything from automated comments for all your friends to auto-joiners and glitter text. Don’t laugh, the social networking cottage industry is growing quickly, they are just not getting the same attention as the SecondLife economy, which is enjoying a ride on the hype train at the moment, and there’s only 100,000 in SL.

Ever since I mentioned Myspace friend trains, this blog has received tons of comments from people wanting to be added. In fact, my original post on friend trains is #8 on Google.

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