deathwatch
Location-based social network tool Meetro is closing the doors. In
the goodbye letter founder and CEO Paul Bragiel explained how a small community of users in Chicago wasn't enough — the company couldn't get much penetration in the markets in New York or San Francisco, where services like Dodgeball and Yelp have acquired large followings (though Dodgeball has since withered and Yelp isn't huge outside of the Bay Area). And the fact that users had to download software didn't help. But hey, one of Meetro's execs met a girl:
We had hundreds of active users and you could feel the buzz around it. We threw a few parties that continued to support the good mood all around. Hell, our CTO Sam even met his current girlfriend at one of them.
not really sports
The first night of Vinnie Lauria's Silicon Valley bowling league went off without a hitch, according to the clip below. Unfortunate, I know. It's all Vinnie (one of the boys at social startup
Meetro) talking about the friendly competition and inevitable VCs who want to hang with the dot-commers.
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bowling 2.0
"You didn't miss out," a Bowling 2.0 Kick-off attendee told me. "Like no one showed up."
Meetro product manager Vincent Lauria
invited a crowd to the kick-off for his Web 2.0 bowling league, but the only ones to come were Meetro staff, a few
Flock members, and some assorted curious parties.
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valleyspeak
Re-educate yourself with this morning's Valleyspeak lesson. Ten points every time you use one in a sentence!
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sports
Get your game on and don't fuck with the Jesus! One of the Web 2.0 crowd forwarded this invite to the Valley's new dot-com bowling league. E-mail prefixes redacted to prevent spam.
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holidays
It's Saturday, it's hitting 75 degrees in the Valley, and revelers have taken to the streets. Why the hell are you on the Internet?
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flipmeat
Since Fox Interactive prez Ross Levinsohn said "We bought someone in this room" — at a Web 2.0 clusterfest — the bloggers have gone mad trying to guess which piece of flipmeat Fox chowed down on. Or, as VC blogger
Paul Kedrosky puts it, Fox bought itself "a kazoo chorus of unwitting hype-meisters noisily playing the 'guess the company' game."
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