First it was my friend Jason and his wife Randi. Jeb and I got Jason online. He did the rest. They were married a few years back after meeting on Match.com. Now it was my friend Lisa and her new husband Jeff. They also met on Match.com. The wedding was today. It was a nice wedding. Though I didn’t go to their wedding, my ex-girlfriend Bing also met her husband on Match.com. The product definitely works. I don’t know anyone that’s met their spouse on any other service.
Archive for June, 2008
I Went to My Second “Match.com Wedding” Today
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Yahoo Licenses Urban Mapping Data
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008My friend Ian runs Urban Mapping. It’s a great little company that provides neighborhood and public transit data to be overlaid on top of maps and to better refine local search queries. We used his data while I was at SuperPages.com. Ian just completed a deal to provide Yahoo with neighborhood data. I think that’s great. It will definitely improve the results you get back on local searches in urban areas.
The deal was announced on Search Engine Watch.
Great Alternative Viewpoint on the Condition of Yahoo
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Yes, Yahoo lost out on search and PPC advertising to Google, but they’re beating everyone else. I’ve always been told that there’s room in the market for 2 dominant players. Yahoo is number 2.
But more to the point, there’s more going on at Yahoo than just search and PPC advertising. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land has written a great piece on where Yahoo stands as a whole.
Kick-Ass Properties: Yahoo has fantastic properties. Time magazine this week awarded Yahoo two of the 10 picks for its “10 Essential Sites” special feature. Yahoo Finance and Flickr both got nods. No other company got recognized more than once (for the record, the others were Wikipedia, Craigslist, ESPN, Yelp, Facebook, Digg, Google, and TMZ. And yeah, I know, some of those hardly seem essential. And hey Time, next time give me one frakking page listing everyone. Geez!).
Let me add to Time’s picks a few more properties that do well for Yahoo. Delicious. Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Mail. Yahoo News. Oh, Yahoo Search. All of these are either the leaders or strong players in their categories.
There’s more, so click over to the article to see what else Yahoo has going for it.
What Was NetFlix Thinking?
Friday, June 20th, 2008This is the worst customer service move I’ve seen this year. Netflix has eliminated the ability to have multiple queues and reviewers per account. Here’s the details for Ars Technica:
According to an e-mail sent out to subscribers last night, Netflix is eliminating the convenient feature and removing all additional account profiles in September. And to add insult to injury, the additional profiles cannot be migrated to a new account. So all the effort you may have put in to rating hundreds, if not thousands, of movies and carefully crafting the perfect queue will be obliterated. The rental history will be merged with the main account owner, so your recommendations could suddenly change to reflect other profile users’ tastes.
I’d be really pissed if I had to recreate my queue. Maybe they want people to go back to Blockbuster.
Good Layman’s Explanation of a Licensing Agreement
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Jay Parkhill on GigaOM wrote a nice explanation of licensing agreement. It explains nicely all the obscure legalese that marketing people like to avoid. It’s worth a read.
