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Gahbunga launched today. It was created by the guys at Weblogs Work (profile) and is at least as interesting as Consumating, another Texas dating startup (I think these two companies should work together).
The idea? It’s “hot or not” for your cell phone. You take a picture of someone (hopefully with their permission). It’s sent to your friends and, if you desire, to the entire Gahabunga community (talk about pressure). They rate the person’s intellect, personality and overall charisma physical hotness.
You get the opinions of your friends and the Gahbunga community in moments. Your level of insecurity determines your next move, I guess.
See the site:
For example, you are on a blind date and you are on the fence about the guy: First, take a quick phone-photo of your date and send it to Gahbunga. Gahbunga will then send the photo to your friends and if you choose, to other members of the Gahbunga community. Gahbunga will then ask your friends and community members to ‘rate’ your date. The results will be sent to your phone within an hour. The rest is up to you!
Yes, people will be offended. But this is an interesting experiment. Right? I dunno. It’s late and I’m going to bed. Can’t wait to see the comments on this one.
Dont photo rate this hot chick sites, or in this dating or social networking ones, have an issue in so far, as 3rd party unique users rate extremely low eh (avg’s 2-3.5/10) and therefore dont really provide any real recommendation advice for potential dater. This is a ‘high involvement’ decision where there is no immediate offline economic multi-industry the industry can substitute. I’d be more interested in a meta-scraped oodle.com/simplyhired/indeed.com meta-scraped dating site…
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facebook is so far ahead… the last thing we need is bad rating and social networking plays considered “2.0″ – who would use this service ? Chris and Ponzi may have met through Match.com and we think thats ok, but can anyone ever imagine meeting someone that rated them “hot” “9/10″… and then meeting them, having chemistry, kids, happily ever after.. this is no eharmony.com. now there ’s a non-web 2.0 algorithm for connection, traffic and charging premium user subscription fees.
Cute. Fun. Entertaining for a minute or two. But I don’t get the point?
Maybe I’m old.
Also, is there a business model somewhere?
Having said that, the cartoon on the home page is neat, but the Google Ad isn’t. I have a hard time taking a business seriously with Google Ads on them…
FYI – your feed is unreadable in Bloglines. It looks like this (one giant run-on sentence)
Dave
p.s. I had to submit this multiple times, kept getting a pretty revealing error from your DB
Company: Gahbunga Launched: August 29 2005 Status: Weblogs Work Company Location: Dallas, TX Gahbunga launched today. It was created by the guys at Weblogs Work (profile) and is at least as interesting as Consumating, another Texas dating startu
If you don’t get it you are not alone. The truth is if you are not between 13 and 23 (and largely female) you won’t. I am 33 and bald and have a hard time understanding why kids pay $1.45 for ringtones when they balk at paying $1 per song for iTunes (instead decide stealing them is better).
The site is not very serious. The next version will have a cool AJAX interface and an interesting display of meta data collected. Thanks for the comments – keep them coming – we will take off the Google ads since they seem offensive. Not sure why – but I don’t get why people use hot or not – so instead of fighting the battle I will go along!
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Having said that, the cartoon on the home page is neat, but the Google Ad isn’t. I have a hard time taking a business seriously with Google Ads on them