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Two important deals being announced in Massachusetts today.
Web analytics firm Compete was acquired, and Mzinga has acquired Prospero. Prospero’s community platform powers some of the largest social nets around. The combined company will become a market leader in the enterprise community space, with 1 billion pages served per month across 14,000 communities.
TechCrunch says via Jeremiah Owyang that there are more than 60 white label social networking players. Today Jeremiah’s posted Consolidation Needed in the White Label Social Networking Industry.
There are two main white label dating site providers, White Label Dating and World Dating Partners. At first glance, both look pretty much the same from the outside, but when you dig into the comments on this blog, where both companies are trying to differentiate each other, you start to get a sense of the differences between the two.
Unless you are really pushing the limits of functionality and customization, there are fewer reasons to build a dating site from a script. There will always be forward-thinking dating sites that need the ability to scale and customize their sites, and there is no shortage of dating sites scripts out there.
As someone who is getting tired of “just one more tweak” to my blogs, I’m thinking about moving to a hosted blog platform. More time to write, less time messing around with templates/CSS/PHP and the like.
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As well as http://www.whitelabeldating.com we’ll be launching http://www.whitelabelnetworking.com later this year – unlike many white label social platforms, it’s fully hosted, free and fully customisable.
People using our white label dating platform will be first to try out the social networking platform and you’ll get a good idea of what’s to come through our white label dating platform.
Ross
Think of this service as Wordpress MU finally got it right. Simple (with arbitrary HTML code insertion for widgets), fast, clean, and dead simple to modify templates.
Check for updates, thanks.