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deathwatch
Meetro dies, but love lives on
Location-based social network tool Meetro is closing the doors. In the goodbye letter founder and CEO Paul Bragiel explained how a small community of users in Chicago wasn't enough — the company couldn't get much penetration in the markets in New York or San Francisco, where services like Dodgeball and Yelp have acquired large followings (though Dodgeball has since withered and Yelp isn't huge outside of the Bay Area). And the fact that users had to download software didn't help. But hey, one of Meetro's execs met a girl:We had hundreds of active users and you could feel the buzz around it. We threw a few parties that continued to support the good mood all around. Hell, our CTO Sam even met his current girlfriend at one of them.
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By Jackson WestComment by raincoaster: Having worked for a company in the same business, I can tell you that this is what happens. Social sites's... more » | Other threads
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not really sports
Bowling 2.0 1.0: The revolution will be ten-pinned
The first night of Vinnie Lauria's Silicon Valley bowling league went off without a hitch, according to the clip below. Unfortunate, I know. It's all Vinnie (one of the boys at social startup Meetro) talking about the friendly competition and inevitable VCs who want to hang with the dot-commers. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by vinnie: we'll have lots more video and interviews with every team as the league progresses. so check the hottest bowling... more » | Other threads
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bowling 2.0
Meetro's bowling league kick-off is a gutterball
"You didn't miss out," a Bowling 2.0 Kick-off attendee told me. "Like no one showed up." Meetro product manager Vincent Lauria invited a crowd to the kick-off for his Web 2.0 bowling league, but the only ones to come were Meetro staff, a few Flock members, and some assorted curious parties. More » -
valleyspeak
Valleyspeak: And by "evil" I mean "unprofitable"
Re-educate yourself with this morning's Valleyspeak lesson. Ten points every time you use one in a sentence! More » -
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By Nick DouglasComment by Ron Jeremy: Time to send Vinnie back to NYC. Maybe he missed Bowlmor a little too much to be out here. more » | Other threads
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holidays
The hap-hap-happiest season of all
It's Saturday, it's hitting 75 degrees in the Valley, and revelers have taken to the streets. Why the hell are you on the Internet? More » -
flipmeat
Fox flipmeat: Handicapping the horses
Since Fox Interactive prez Ross Levinsohn said "We bought someone in this room" — at a Web 2.0 clusterfest — the bloggers have gone mad trying to guess which piece of flipmeat Fox chowed down on. Or, as VC blogger Paul Kedrosky puts it, Fox bought itself "a kazoo chorus of unwitting hype-meisters noisily playing the 'guess the company' game." More »
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