OPW — Oct 18 — Every morning I personally review all of the following 80 blogs (thank you Google Reader) for the top internet dating and social networking stories. The relevant core intelligence from Yahoo News and these blogs is then added to Online Personals Watch, Mobile Dating Watch and Frequent Flirters for you to digest. Sign up for the daily emails if you really want to stay on top of the online personals industry.
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There seems to be at least twenty times more stories on social networking than internet dating these days. Should I break out social networking onto a different blog, or are you happy combining the news in one place, on OPW? – Mark Brooks
I’d say keep it as one Mark. Thanks
I would keep it together but what about all the t-shirts sites? These sites have been built around a mix of “unique product” and “community” (very 2.0). This business is exploding on the internet and hardly anyone is talking about it (except for Mr. PUI-WING TAM from WSJ.com). Spreadshirt.com just received several million in VC funding from Accel (they also went from online to off-line by actually opening their first retail store: http://www.derby.spreadshirt.net), and LaFraise.com just sold for about $3 million (the company was ran by 3 people and was only 2-years old). In the US, there are projects like Threadless.com, TshirtHell.com, Bustedtees.com and Defunker.com making millions. I heard (rumor) that the successful Spanish project, SetaLoca.com is looking to hit the US market next year. There’s a HUGE Hispanic market just waiting to be tapped and I’m sure it will be a hit with non-Spanish speakers, as well. Anyway, it would be interesting to see someone follow this “online t-shirt” industry!
I think the social networking news will continue growing ad naseum because that’s the future of Web 2.0 (I’m thinking: in late 90s, the “news about chat rooms” would have eventually become too pervasive) whereas internet dating is simply one application of it.
So if they were separated, eventually you’d collapse under all the social networking news or just have more than is useful. I’m mostly only interested in social networking news as it applies to online dating, online matching, and the dating and relationship education industries, so I probably wouldn’t read a social networking news collection because its too broad.
I do believe that the internet will simply become more “real estate” in the future with the same dynamics as any other brick-and-mortar industry. So then the “online dating” industry simply becomes the “club / bar” industry. And “social networking” becomes the larger “restaurant” industry equivalent.