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By: Myspace was only the beginning at The Thinking Stick

Myspace was only the beginning at The Thinking Stick — Wed, 24 May 2006 06:32:35 +0000

[...] This is a deeply funded market niche. Market leader Myspace is owned by News Corp. Facebook is funded to the hilt. Friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins (and Benchmark before the recap). Newcomer Tagworld raised a healthy $7.5 million from DFJ. And tagged, focused on much younger audiences, raised $7m from Mayfield. [...]

By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Bebo Closes $15M Financing

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Bebo Closes $15M Financing — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:29:14 +0000

By: TechCrunch » Tagworld Hits 1 million members, announces $7.5 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:02:25 +0000

[...] They will announce a $7.5 million series A round of financing led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson tomorrow (Monday). Note: competitor Tagged announced a $7 million financing led by Mayfield in February 2006. [...]

By: VentureWeek » VentureWeek #9 - Catch Up 2/20/06

VentureWeek » VentureWeek #9 - Catch Up 2/20/06 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:51:52 +0000

[...] Financings - Six Apart raises $12mm - Stardoll.com raises $4mm - Konarka raises $20mm - MySQL raises $18mm - Skinkers raises $3.5mm - Podcast Ready raises $0.52mm - TagWorld gets funding from DFJ - Friendster recapped by Kleiner [...]

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Jeff Clavier's Software Only — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:04:57 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:09:18 +0000

Multiple myspace clones getting funded by top VCs is a sure sign of bubble. That too tag something or the other. Remember pet something or the other..

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:31:17 +0000

Tagworld is not the next big one…. There niche is slightly off. Think about it….

Complexity targets online gurus, simplicity targets the mass.

By: juicy

juicy — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:28:20 +0000

show me the money!

By: Jason L. Baptiste

Jason L. Baptiste — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:11:04 +0000

Anyone ever think it’ll just be something very simple, but diverse with its forms of content? Facebook works, because it is simple. Myspace is a cluttered, technical nightmare. Tagworld isn’t a technical nightmare, but it’s just too much. Feature wise though, TagWorld has it. I’ll enjoy seeing this, as the boys from DFJ know their stuff.

-Jason L. Baptiste

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:08:07 +0000

Myspace can be beaten, or at least battered.

But tagworld isn’t the site (in its current form) that will do it.

By: TagWorld Gets Funding » Conversion Rater

TagWorld Gets Funding » Conversion Rater — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:53:51 +0000

[...] Techcrunch points out that TagWorld has received funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. While that may or may not be a good investment, I wonder how they feel about TagWorld spam? [...]

By: ariel

ariel — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:39:28 +0000

must also be a pain here and disagree that tagwork ‘ain’t so clean…people have made some pretty hideously ugly pages just like they do on myspace - and i believe that article you pointed to on 9rules implies that the community is what it’s about inspite of the ‘lack of white space.’ People like to pimp their stuff out. great…and some have horrible taste.

But give them some new innovative tools to play with with that much financing please!

By: Kelly E. Smith

Kelly E. Smith — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:11:24 +0000

Investments like this are basically a math exercise that has little to do with what’s going on at MySpace, Tribe or others. They’re looking at things like current traffic, monthly growth over the last six months, monthly burn-rate to support the site and projected burn-rate to grow the site. It’s why there are so many dating sites in spite of Match.com being so big. The world is a big place and if you can keep your costs down you can still do plays like this and make money. It’s all about running the numbers…not about design.

By: James J.

James J. — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:57:42 +0000

Derek,

That spam doesn’t look like it’s from Tagworld , but from some spammer using the Tagworld invite format to get people to click his links.

Ariel,

Do the VCs think that people are going to say oh let’s go to Tagworld now? Yes, that is what they think and it’s not that unreasonable. There is a school of thought that says these sites are just fads, and while Myspace is on top now, users of these sites are fickle and will eventually flock to the next cool site. Who would have thought Friendster would have ended up as it has? I’m sure their investors think Tagworld is that next cool site.

Cadence,

It’s more likely Myspace became a success in spite of it’s bad design, not because of it. I think one can apply the concept of form following function in this case. Myspace had the right features, that no one else had, at the right time.

By: Cadence

Cadence — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:27:33 +0000

Myspace is ghetto and thats why it’s popular.

See: http://9rules.com/whitespace/m.....choice.php

Tagworld is too clean simple web2.0 and while that’s good it wont be popular unless they do something radical.

By: ariel

ariel — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:18:50 +0000

Come on! A little innovation, please! An insult to funding…what is on here that’s not on tribe or myspace? Is there something I am missing? A niche market? Do the VCs think that people are going to say oh let’s go to tag world now? Mamma mia. they haven’t even fixed what is wrong with myspace.

By: Jennifer Allen

Jennifer Allen — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:55:23 +0000

No spam yet for me - I had a few errors at sign up, but so far it’s fun, and embraces most Web 2.0 qualities.

Jenn

By: Derek Scruggs

Derek Scruggs — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:12:27 +0000

These guys are spammers. I’ve gotten tons of spam from them and so have others:

http://groups.google.com/group.....88f6d9b9ac