CNET — Mar 3 — Friendster earned some notoriety for firing a blogger…and is now bringing bloggers into the fold–and hoping to collect fees in the process. Friendster launched a beta of Friendster Blogs. The underlying technology is provided by Six Apart (TypePad). The default option is $4.95 per month.
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Mark Brooks: Finally, some meat on the bone. This should help Friendster recover some lost ground from MySpace. OnlinePersonalsWatch is built on TypePad btw.
I think that blogs and also mobile applications for Online Dating Social Networking will ONLY be a complement of a Dating/Social Networking site, not a main feature.
Any person could start a blog in an independent manner, no need to have a membership/subscription at a Dating/Social Networking site.
Perhaps a person owns a blog and he or she is subscribed to more than 5 Dating Sites. (no need to repeat 5 times the blog’s content)
If you start a blog, you need to write from time to time, continually or continuously, to PROVIDE CONTENT, that is the main feature of a weblog (blog). Many blogs are only the “Public On Line Version of my Private Diary” read by anybody (the blog has any or no audience at all).
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