• deathwatch

    Wallop belly-flops

    Former Keen and Cloudmark CEO Karl Jacob set high expectations for Wallop, a social networking site that hoped to sell widgets to users rather than showing them ads. Valleywag liked Wallop because it let you physically drag losers out of your social circle. But Wallop never made it out of beta. The site now says it will terminate service on Thursday. TechCrunch reports that their email to the company's press contact bounced — that's all, folks!
    09/15/08
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    Comment by Shadowlayer: e-losers represent 90% of SN users, and they'll refuse to pay for anything, nuff said. more » | Other threads

  • bad idea

    The three worst social networks since HitlerYouth.com

    Disclaimer: Someone could theoretically mashup the sex offender registry, Google Maps, and Club Penguin. And that, I'll grant, would be a worse social network than the ones below. More »
    Feature Feature
    10/01/07
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  • youtube

    Social site zeitgeist: The ultimate guide to YouTube

    • Rev2, which feels like a more authoritative version of the exhaustive tech blog TechCrunch, today published a thorough profile of YouTube. Read it to learn the history of the company (for example, how a contest jump-started its user and content base) and how the site works for users. The only things missing are more links to specific user accounts that exemplify concepts like "YouTube comedians" and "YouTube musicians." [Rev2]
    • Who's afraid of MySpace? Not PhilaFunk, which is yet another social site that may get a burst of blog (and even media) attention before sites like Wallop render the whole page-based social networking model obsolete. [Philly Future]
    • Speaking of Wallop, BusinessWeek expressed doubt over the new site's impact last week. In a fit of misinterpretation of the issue, writer Sarah Lacy says that some feel Microsoft (which started Wallop but no longer owns it) is late to the party. "Actually, it's more of a bash," says Lacy. Does anyone know what the difference between a party and a bash is? Is a bash some religious ceremony we WASPs haven't heard of? [BusinessWeek]
    • This was a banner weekend for how-to articles, and one of the best is "Selling Social Networks," which explains the special case of making money from social sites. For example, users don't click ads on these sites because it's hard to distract them from using the actual site. That's because the act of managing one's social life is more gripping than, say, reading a newspaper. [Unit Structures]
    10/02/06
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    Comment by Blackjack: Party sounds like something Dubya would do, bash sounds like something Will Farrell would do. Viva la difference. more » | Other threads

  • microsoft

    Wallop: Make friends, trash them

    Wallop, the invite-only social network spun off from Microsoft, launched today to much Internet hoopla, actually looks like a fresh take on social networking. This time, instead of seeing ads, users pay the site a buck or two to add modules to their user pages. It's a convenient way to re-establish the classic grade-school hierarchy, where it pays to be pretty and vice versa. More »
    09/26/06
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  • social network

    How Wallop will be like the real world

    Karl Jacob is taking Wallop out for a spinoff The not-so-hot social network just split from Microsoft as its own (VC-funded) company. TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington (who's tried every social site this side of Adult Friend Finder) says he's seen some of Wallop's new offerings, and it's not just another Tagged.com or Yahoo 360. More »
    04/26/06
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    Comment by Blackjack: >> Michael Arrington (who's tried every social site this side of Adult Friend Finder) Does that include SoloModels.com? more » | Other threads

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