Pete Cashmore writes about DatingAnyone.com, a free service that lets you track whether the “single” or “taken” status of friends on myspace has changed (he also notes SingleStats).
Associated Press: iPods are cooler than beer–and Facebook is in the top three cool things for college students in a recent survey.
Washington Post: Online dating= fraud risks for searchers, says WaPo reporter.
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Hi Susan,
While I am sure that the dating angle is interesting from the Yahoo! Personals perspective, I think DatingAnyone.com, SingleStat.us and others are indicative of a a much larger trend.
Like eBay, Google and others, MySpace is enabling business creation around the marketplace that it has built. Steve Rubel calls it the MySpace Economy, a term I like quite a bit.
In the auction space, iSold it, dropshop and Auctioning4u are strong examples of this.
MySpace is also driving business growth indirectly, as is the case with Technorati. Their semi-symbiotic economic situation is both good and bad. Good, because both businesses are obviously doing very well. Bad, because as an early user of Technorati, I can tell you that it ain’t what it used to be. I was wondering what slowed down their indexing and has made their results less interesting.
What do you think?
My full post on it is here:
http://www.i-boy.com/weblog/2006/06/enter-myspace.html
Have a great weekend,
~G~
Out of curiosity: I made two trackbacks to the two posts from your blog I refered to in mine. And they never show up. Do you block trackbacks because of spams? (i know the problem, I have the same concern). I wonder if it is still woth taking the trouble to send trackbacks to blogs. It is a pity, It encouraged cross-polinization. Is there any other way?
well dating anyone is a good dating supporting service fro myspace..
I bet myspace is going to buy them out soon..
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