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MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users this morning after launching it in public beta last March. In that time over 1,000 applications have been approved and added to the gallery and there have been over 2.1 million application installs across the site. Today, MySpace began promoting applications to users by adding an [...]

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I’ve been getting a lot of emails from Facebook dating applications this week after signing up for about 20 of them last weekend. Thing is, I deleted 20 applications a few weeks ago because I thought they were breaking things on Facebook. It appears that when you delete a Facebook dating application, all of the [...]

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Post tax day depression starting to lift. Joined GetREELed, a social network for fisherman. After a day on the site I am already hosting an urban fishing expidition in May. That’s why I love niche sites. I’ve met more interesting people that actually want to hang out together in 24 hours than I have on [...]

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Infrequent posting lately. Was in New York City for a lost weekend, finishing up projects, spending some mental health time out of the office and checking out traffic stats as part of a preemptive move to posting twice a week.
Looks like I’m going to be part of a dating-related radio show, which is doing a [...]

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What a week, spring reared it’s head, we hit the 70’s, and now is going to rain all weekend.
Markus at Plenty of Fish Rickrolled me on April Fools day, nice one Markus. Read his post so you have a context for my response.
Many niche sites make plenty of money, several make as much or more [...]

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Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jeremiah Owyang highlights the most important stories.
Snap Summit 2.0 summary: It’s all about Facebook: Absolute must-read.

Dave Morin, the senior platform manager at Facebook, was the event’s main attraction. He opened his talk with a story about a woman he had met outside. She had created a Facebook application [...]

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Facebook dating applications (1,414 and counting) are starting to get some serious traction. Recently week I spoke with Alex Mehr, who, along with Shayan Ghazizadeh and two developers, launched Zoosk, a popular dating application on Facebook. Zoosk was funded by Amidzad, which also funds Plugplaycenter, a technology startup incubator for over 100 companies in [...]

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Look at my week’s worth of Myspace friend requests, every single one is a pr*stit*te. Calling Client-9. And let’s not get into the gaping security holes at Myspace. The company will push back against legal actions being taken against the site for as long as possible. There is simply too much money to be [...]

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Earlier today I spoke with Alex Mehr, who created Zoosk, a platform agnostic dating application that leverages the social graph.
I’ll post the interview later, need to go over my notes and make sure I don’t release any company secrets and clean up the drool from my jaw hitting the floor continuously throughout the conversation. Watch [...]

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