Friday 8-25 Links: JDate, Apple, Tribe.net, SkaDate, Facebook
JDupe: PocketChange mag dupes women into meeting mirage Richard Nouveau via JDate. Re-Tribe: Mark Pincus is back as CEO of Tribe.net after being ousted in April. (possible hoax?) Ex eDonkey (file sharing service) CEO starts YADS (Yet Another Dating Site). Supposedly...Friendster Raises Additional $10 Million
While I was away for the weekend at a bachelor party, Liz Gannes at GigaOM (congrats on the move Liz!) wrote that Friendster has raised another $10 million dollars. This appears to be separate from the company’s $3.1 million recapitalization round earlier this year....Balancing Privacy With Emerging Business Models
Markus doesn’t get the point about dating sites opening up their database to third parties. He’s worried legal headaches and privacy issues. The point is that dating sites can make more money by opening up their member database to third parties who share...Facebook Opens Up
Marc Cantor is ecstatic to hear that Facebook is opening up it’s walled garden by providing developers with a public API (Application Programming Interface). This makes retrieving information from Facebook and displaying the results in any application a snap....Walmart Attempts Social Networking
Walmart has launched The Hub, a heavily censored, strictly monitored, squeeky-clean social networking site that doesn’t allow messaging between users and alerts parents when their child signs up for the site. I can’t imagine this is going to keep Myspace...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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