Comments on: CNET Acquires Consumating

By: Consumating To Join The Deadpool

Consumating To Join The Deadpool — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:31:19 +0000

[...] was acquired by CNet in December 2005 and was later relaunched in June 2006. The sites traffic remained strong in 2006 then fell away in [...]

By: Consumating To Join The Deadpool

Consumating To Join The Deadpool — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:31:19 +0000

[...] was acquired by CNet in December 2005 and was later relaunched in June 2006. The sites traffic remained strong in 2006 then fell away in [...]

By: CNet приобрела Consumating | TechCrunch по-русски

CNet приобрела Consumating | TechCrunch по-русски — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:03:00 +0000

[...] материалам: Techcrunch okbm(’http://techcrunch.ru/2005/12/09/cnet-acquires-consumating/’,'CNet приобрела [...]

By: Consumating Goes Open Source

Consumating Goes Open Source — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:41:25 +0000

[...] is a dating and social networking website for “geeks” that CNET acquired back in December [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » オンラインデート 2.0: 「出会い」のための13のサイト

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » オンラインデート 2.0: 「出会い」のための13のサイト — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:10:13 +0000

[...] Consumating は2005年夏にスタートした。その後2005年12月にCNET に買収されたが、新しいインタフェースと機能を備えて先月新装開店した。キャッチは「ダメ男じゃないない相手を見つけよう（Find People Who Don’t Suck）」このサービスではタグが大きな役割を演じている。Consumatingは明確にヒップな若い層を狙っている。ユーザーは質問に応えながらプロファイルを完成させることで自分の魅力をアピールする。大まかな年代（20代、30代など）とタグの検索によって友だちやパートナーを探す。このサイトではさまざまなコンテストや毎週開催されるクイズ大会を通じてユーザー間の懇親を図っている。 Consumatingのその他の機能として、ユーザーが設定した条件（全員、zipコード、タグなど）によってウェブページへメンバーの情報を送信するウィジェットが提供されている。また掲示板も用意されている。下記にウィジェットの一つを掲載しておいた。（注釈：ウィジェットはFirefoxでは正常に表示されているが、IE、Operaでは表示されていないよう） var widget = new ConsumatingWidget(); widget.randomProfile(); .csm_badge { background: #FFF; border: 1px solid #666; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;} .csm_badge_vertical { background: #FFF; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .csm_badge_horizontal { background: #FFF; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .csm_wrapper { width: 152px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; font-family: “Trebuchet MS”,Trebuchet,”Lucinda Grande”, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } .csm_horizontal_wrapper { width: 502px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: “Trebuchet MS”,Trebuchet,”Lucinda Grande”, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } .csm_vertical_wrapper { width: 52px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: “Trebuchet MS”,Trebuchet,”Lucinda Grande”, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } .csm_wrapper a { color: #0A6; } .csm_wrapper .logo { text-align: center; border-top: 1px dashed #666; } .csm_break { height: 1px; clear: both;} .csm_row { padding: 0px; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 50px; height: 50px;} .csm_row_txt { position: relative; left: 60px; width: 90px; font-size: 12px; } .csm_row_pic {position: absolute; left: 0px; width: 55px; } .csm_txt { padding: 5px; text-align: center; } .csm_card { border: solid #666 1px; width: 110px; height: 145px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px; background: #FFF; margin: 5px;} .csm_profile { text-align: center; padding: 10px; } widget.firstProfile(); for (i = 0; i < widget.profileCount(10); i++) { document.write(widget.profileLink(widget.photo(1,50))); widget.nextProfile(); } [...]

By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Online Dating 2.0: Thirteen Sites To Find Love

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:35:03 +0000

[...] Consumating launched in the summer of 2005, was acquired by CNET in December 2005 and relaunched last month with a new interface and features. It’s tagline is “Find People Who Don’t Suck,” and tagging plays a big part in the service. Consumating is clearly aimed young hipsters, who can make themselves more “popular” by answering questions to fill out their profile. Users search by loose age ranges (20s, 30s, etc.) and tags to find friends and partners. The site also seeks to engage users through a variety of contests and weekly user quizzes. Other Consumating features include a widget that streams member information to a web page based on parameters you set (everyone, zipcode, by tag). The site also has message board features. We’ve included a version of the widget below. var widget = new ConsumatingWidget(); widget.randomProfile(); .csm_badge { background: #FFF; border: 1px solid #666; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;} .csm_badge_vertical { background: #FFF; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .csm_badge_horizontal { background: #FFF; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .csm_wrapper { width: 152px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; font-family: “Trebuchet MS”,Trebuchet,”Lucinda Grande”, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } .csm_horizontal_wrapper { width: 502px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: “Trebuchet MS”,Trebuchet,”Lucinda Grande”, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } .csm_vertical_wrapper { width: 52px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: “Trebuchet MS”,Trebuchet,”Lucinda Grande”, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } .csm_wrapper a { color: #0A6; } .csm_wrapper .logo { text-align: center; border-top: 1px dashed #666; } .csm_break { height: 1px; clear: both;} .csm_row { padding: 0px; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 50px; height: 50px;} .csm_row_txt { position: relative; left: 60px; width: 90px; font-size: 12px; } .csm_row_pic {position: absolute; left: 0px; width: 55px; } .csm_txt { padding: 5px; text-align: center; } .csm_card { border: solid #666 1px; width: 110px; height: 145px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; padding-top: 5px; background: #FFF; margin: 5px;} .csm_profile { text-align: center; padding: 10px; } widget.firstProfile(); for (i = 0; i < widget.profileCount(10); i++) { document.write(widget.profileLink(widget.photo(1,50))); widget.nextProfile(); } [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » CNET Consumatingを再ローンチ

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » CNET Consumatingを再ローンチ — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:02:28 +0000

[...] Consumating は２００５年にローンチし、その年の１２月にCNETにより買収されたタグベースの出会い系(dating)サイトである。 [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » CNET relance Consumating

TechCrunch en français » CNET relance Consumating — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:00:08 +0000

[...] Consumating est un site de rencontre basé sur les tags lancé en 2005 et acquis par CNET en décembre 2005. [...]

By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Relaunches Consumating

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Relaunches Consumating — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:17:37 +0000

[...] Consumating is a tag-based dating site that launched in 2005 and was acquired by CNET in December 2005. [...]

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:41:18 +0000

I’m still of the opinion that all of the dating sites kinda stink.

By: professional web design

professional web design — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:46:04 +0000

well congrats to them.they could’ve gone to okcupid though.

By: Alex Aguilar

Alex Aguilar — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:13:25 +0000

Congrats to them but like I others I don’t get it. I would’ve gone after okcupid.com
which while not having tags/folksonomy nor as sharp of a design - does have a helluva larger community.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:43:36 +0000

Does anyone have an idea how much this sold for?

Seeing as this is something they could have easily duplicated, and that consumating does not have a very large community, it seems fair to say that they’re basically hiring two excellent coders. The sales price is just a signing bonus

By: Stephen Sclafani

Stephen Sclafani — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:36:27 +0000

37signals has some posts on their blog (http://www.37signals.com/svn/) about the acquisition by Mike Tatum who is in the Strategy & Development group at CNET and who is the person responsible for the acquisition.

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:00:35 +0000

While it’s easy to agree that techincally the site could be replicated in a short period of time, I think a lot of people forget the time that goes into the UI, layout, color palette, community policies, heck even the logo. Getting all those things right takes a lot of times and interations and requires having a special understanding of your users and usage.

So c|net can skip doing the months of site design, spec, review, code, review, qa, review etc. as well as risk getting these crucial elements wrong by buying one they know is right enough. I would also suspect that much of the purchase was to bring the mojo behind the site’s indie popularity into c|net where they can seek to learn from it … just as yahoo is.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:52:34 +0000

I agree too, with “lalala” (love people’s chosen monikers). I’m still looking for CNET’s acquisition announcement. I love consumating, but this could be more of an acquisition of the individuals than the service.

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:15:08 +0000

I agree with lalala too - Consumating is a great effort, but it’s easy enough to replicate, especially for someone like CNet. Tracey is right - one week of Rails coding would get you something fairly similar.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:17:09 +0000

I agree with lalala’s reply. The site could probably be written in Rails in about a week or less, but I congratulate him on being acquired by C|Net and receiving a position there that allows him to work on that site as well as others full time.

By: PaidContent.org

PaidContent.org — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:45:36 +0000

Hipster Dating Site Bought Out By CNET Networks

: (via TechCrunch) So it has come to this (I’m using this phrase twice in a week, so you can see where this is going): CNET Networks has moved into dating, making it even more of a crazy buy, as…

By: lalala

lalala — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:40:36 +0000

I don’t get why they just don’t make their own… The consumating site is as it is now a very simple dating site which only has tags going for it, something that can very easily be added to any existing dating site.. On top of that, the site only has 5000 registered users, I bet CNet could get that many users registered to the site in a day if they promoted it properly.

Anway, congrats to the guys.