Comments on: John Galt’s Law (of social networks)

By: squasher98

squasher98 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:51:20 +0000

The one thing that is being forgotten here (from the point of view of a single guy) is that the smaller the number of users in the network: 1) the more exclusive it is 2) the better one’s chances of getting a response/date and 3) the more legit the people are (in this case Atlas Die Hards)

By: Dave Jilk

Dave Jilk — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:58:18 +0000

This is not rocket science, it’s just like affinity credit cards. You get the card through your college or a favorite store or bowling league, but the service is provided by an infrastructure firm like MBNA. In the case of dating sites, they can ask you whether you want to search other categories.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:10:08 +0000

Your last sentence is the key. Why should I have to sign up for multiple sites? I’d much rather since up for one, and then have an effective meta-search across the specific categories I’m interested in.

By: ndintenfass

ndintenfass — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:34:40 +0000

But isn’t the point of all these micro-demographic dating sites that they target specific populations? Seems a meta-site would go against the reason someone ends up at a specialized site, which is, presumably, to narrow, not broaden, the pool in which they will swim (apologies for the mixed metaphor) to just those who share some common characteristic and/or interest. Though, I suppose a good meta-search would be good at letting you slice your own micro-demographic of one in your search.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:22:53 +0000

When we first got together, she thought I was Hank. Now she thinks I’m Francisco. I’ve always identified / wanted to be Francisco.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:08:30 +0000

Does Amy think you are Francisco? or Hank?

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:29:45 +0000

Very interesting post. You’re hinting at some pretty cutting edge stuff. Hopefully (and I REALLY hope!) we can stay away from the Web 3.0 label. Lately I’ve been calling some of these ideas (open id, network aggregation, attention, opml..) post-social networking. Sure some of it has cropped up in various places in the current generation of web services but I think we’re still seeing a lot of centralized control.

Personally, I think the next set of useful tools will utilize your current networks (Myspace, IM, email, blogs) for communication while acting as an external control. What is the internet after all but one large social network.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:07:58 +0000

IMO the dating site industry is DIRTY to say the least. I used to know the CEO of a very profitable one and awhile back he shared some inside info. One particular scheme was a one-time payment to an attractive woman to put different variations of her picture with a fake bio in every state. Essentially, this would entice guys to pay to join and have email conversations with a guy working in the central office posing as the aforementioned women. There are a lot more devious methods used and they have almost no legitimate filtering system whatsoever. It’s an unfortunate scam.