NEWSHOUSE NEWS SERVICE — Jan 29 — Geared for high-schoolers, myYearbook.com has mushroomed into a 300,000 members site. The Cooks, ages 17 and 16, are courting investors. Pages are simpler than MySpace to customize. Kids can Flirt, Bully or Secretly Admire each other with a mouse-click, or send Gold Stars or High-Fives. Members get an online "Yearbook," complete with a "Will" and a "Locker" for sharing music, photos and videos. They envision ads targeted more precisely than Google or Amazon, based on members' entries. MyYearbook.com is "not as safe and secure as it should be," says Parry Aftab of advocacy group Wired Safety, which next month plans to introduce a teen networking site called Yfly.com.
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Mark Brooks: I recently came across Piczo which targets the same demographic and has an Alexa rank ~600.
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“Cooks, ages 17 and 16, are courting investors. ”
They will need a working Business model.
Which is the Business model?
If not yet, could the “site full of members” be a Business?
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina. ardenghifer@gmail.com
I’ve been following the site since shortly after they launched. I must admit the guy is brilliant, creates the site and then says a 16 and 17 year old created it. He is milking it for all the publicity he can.
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According to Alexas charts, myyearbook became one of the fastest growing websites on the internet ever. With traffic that went from next to nothing to 400 visitors out of every million on the internet (in 15 days), they must…
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According to Alexas charts, myyearbook became one of the fastest growing websites on the internet ever. With traffic that went from next to nothing to 400 visitors out of every million on the internet (in 15 days), they must…
“Cooks, ages 17 and 16, are courting investors. ”
They will need a working Business model.
Which is the Business model?
If not yet, could the “site full of members” be a Business?
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
I’ve been following the site since shortly after they launched. I must admit the guy is brilliant, creates the site and then says a 16 and 17 year old created it. He is milking it for all the publicity he can.
MyYearbook: Latest Victim of Social Networking Craze
According to Alexa’s charts, myyearbook became one of the fastest growing websites on the internet ever. With traffic that went from next to nothing to 400 visitors out of every million on the internet (in 15 days), they must…
MyYearbook: Latest Victim of Social Networking Craze
According to Alexas charts, myyearbook became one of the fastest growing websites on the internet ever. With traffic that went from next to nothing to 400 visitors out of every million on the internet (in 15 days), they must…
MyYearbook: Latest Victim of Social Networking Craze
According to Alexas charts, myyearbook became one of the fastest growing websites on the internet ever. With traffic that went from next to nothing to 400 visitors out of every million on the internet (in 15 days), they must…
MyYearbook: Latest Victim of Social Networking Craze
According to Alexas charts, myyearbook became one of the fastest growing websites on the internet ever. With traffic that went from next to nothing to 400 visitors out of every million on the internet (in 15 days), they must…