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by Mark Brooks on April 28, 2006
BIZ REPORT -- Apr 25 -- The pace of venture capital investing is off to its fastest start in four years, propelled by a high-tech comeback that's again pumping cash into the Internet. VCs...
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MIRROR GEEK -- Apr 25 -- On the site users can review travel destinations, blog about their journeys, and post photos. FULL ARTICLE @ MIRROR GEEK mark Brooks: Nice site. Also check out...
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by Mark Brooks on April 28, 2006
NY TIMES -- Apr 23 -- Chris DeWolfe bought the MySpace.com address in 2002 and first used the site to sell E-scooters. He became a master of aggressive forms of online marketing; e-mail, pop-ups....
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by Mark Brooks on April 25, 2006
International Herald Tribune -- Apr 24 -- Mark Simoncini, Meetic CEO, built a company in four years with 17 million profiles in 13 countries speaking nine languages. The idea behind Meetic emerged in...
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by Mark Brooks on April 25, 2006
PAID CONTENT -- Apr 21 -- Stealth social networking service 900 Seconds is based in Palo Alto, CA and run by a former Epinions marketing director. Investors include Trinity Ventures and Sutter Hill...
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MARKETING VOX -- Apr 20 -- Sisterwoman.com is a social network targeting women age 25 to 50. It allows the Incorporation of brands into the community experience and plans to expand the brand to...
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by Mark Brooks on April 25, 2006
TECH WEB -- Apr 20 -- Rumors are, AOL is close to launching a social network off of its AOL instant messenger service that would make it easier for subscribers to share and create content. AOL claims...
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by Mark Brooks on April 24, 2006
RED HERRING -- Apr 19 -- Privately held Facebook received $25 million in its second round of venture financing to help expand features for sharing information. Greylock Partners led the round....
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by Mark Brooks on April 24, 2006
PRWEB -- Apr 18 -- Marketdata Enterprises released its U.S. dating services market Report on matchmakers, dating Web sites, chains and franchises, radio datelines, print personal ads, and singles...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on April 21, 2006
OPW INTERVIEW -- Apr 21 -- Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist. He has built a powerhouse of a site on sheer utility, pure goodwill, and a groundswell of viral word-of mouth. Craigslist is a...
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by Mark Brooks on April 20, 2006
MEDIA POST -- Apr 18 -- Myspace.com is looking to place its user-generated content into TV shows. It will extend the life of a TV sponsorship for a marketer integrating social networking into the TV...
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by Mark Brooks on April 20, 2006
MEDIA POST -- Apr 17 -- Keith and I are standing on the corner of 4th Ave and 13th Street. Our destination is Pop, a lounge located right across the street. We decide to have a an SMS search...
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SWISS INFO -- Apr 14 -- The most popular Swiss dating agencies - swissflirt, friendscout24, meetic and match.com - each have up to 260,000 registered users. Switzerland's population is ~7.4...
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by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2006
MEDIA POST -- Apr 2006 -- What makes the small world phenomenon meaningful is that certain types of individuals can be as influential as mass media under the right conditions. Connectivity is speeding...
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OPW INTERVIEW -- Apr 17 -- The FriendFinder network is huge. The biggest sites in the network are AdultFriendFinder, AsiaFriendFinder, amigos and FriendFinder and Alt. I interview the founder, Dr...
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by Mark Brooks on April 17, 2006
MEDIA POST -- Apr 14 -- Think Partnership agreed to purchase IceRocket, billionaire mark Cuban's blog search engine. Earlier this month, Think acquired Litmus Media for ~$13 million, and is...
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by Mark Brooks on April 17, 2006
News Corp.'S INTERNET COMMUNITY SITE -- Apr 13 -- MySpace hired Hemanshu Nigam who was previously the director of consumer security outreach and child-safe computing at Microsoft. Myspace is...
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by Mark Brooks on April 17, 2006
CNET NEWS -- Apr 12 -- eBay invested $2 million in social networking company Meetup.com. eBay's founder and board chairman, Pierre Omidyar, holds more than a 10% stake in Meetup. Last month,...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on April 10, 2006
TELEKOM -- Apr -- EMT, a subsidiary of Eesti Telekom, purchased 51% of Serenda Investment O" which owns Rate.ee. 49% of rate.ee belongs to Andrei Korobeinik, the founder. Rate.ee is the biggest...
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PR NEWSWIRE -- Apr 6 -- Quepasa registered 100,000 new users within the Social Networking portion of its website. RELEASE @ SYS-CON Mark Brooks: Quepasa is not a new site, just the social networking...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on April 10, 2006
POWER HOME BIZ -- Apr 5 -- ScnWeb, web design and development company, released Online Dating Software $199, allowing the launch of a full featured dating site. RELEASE @ POWER HOME BIZMark Brooks:...
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WIRED NEWS -- Apr 5 -- online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who like the same things. The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that shared...
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