by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Social: Dating & Networking
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....
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
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...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
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....
by David Evans | Social: Dating & 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...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Legal, Social: Dating & Networking
Friendster’s recent attempt to patent social networking has elicited remarks from industry insiders that range from “who cares” to careful dissection of the patents’ wording. Friendster’s June 27 patent refers to a “system, method,...