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I haven’t launched the website officially yet. I am still doing testing. It has been online for only 5 days. I can always use your marketing knowledge
Thanks..

You launched a site a few month back but there is no traffic whatsoever, I launched a site 4 weeks ago now my Alexa ranking is 80k and shooting up everyday. There are two possibilities: your service is not needed in the market. 2nd, you don’t know how to market it and have to come here to advertise. Think again.

You can read my first post about it (back in July 4, 2006) and screenshots of my progress here http://tektactic.com/articles/.....le-of-evil

However, techCrunch never posted anything about me or my website.. mmm.
Make you think about all those small businesses who came up with good ideas but didn’t get noticed… Anyway good luck

I watched with much amusement yesterday as the comments rolled in on a TechCrunch posting by Marshall Kirkpatrick about a ….you guessed it….new social networking site. For the record, the site in question is called MingleNow, which is laun…

I feel, one of the reasons the facebook is so popular is because it creates an online presence for real world interactions. You see people in class or the gym get introduced and almost always go look em up on facebook later! I think the same may hold true with people you meet at parties, dinners and other social events around town. I often catch someone’s name at a loud party and have a brief conversation but there is nothing beyond that. Maybe now there will be!

I dont think my friends are organized enough to publish/update their social calendars every friday nite but I can see a mini/more usable evite system being born within mingle now.

Anyways, I like it and I wish the “mingle now” team, good luck!

I enjoy reading this crap.

THE SITE HASN’T EVEN LAUNCHED. THE CHANCES OF THE SITE ACTUALLY BEING EASY AND FUN TO NAVIGATE IN NEXT TO NOTHING UNLESS THEY’RE A GENIUS OR JUST PLAIN INNOVATIVE.

some angry, disillusioned cats in here…

when i was in grad school.. we’d hang out at clubs we knew about, as well as those we heard about from others we trusted…

unfortunately, as you get older, and move to other cities, you kind of loose since of where the serious clubs are. give me the clubs where you have to do a suit/tie, and the women look seriously fine!!!!

my point was that if this site can deliver on my ability to find these kinds of clubs, then yeah.. it would have a chance..

peace

Cheers,

Yoni Avital, CEO MatchActivity

I’m in my early 20s. I go clubbing pretty much every weekend. My friends and I do some planning, but we don’t have an itinerary. We play it by ear. Get spontaneous. Some of us make it to a destination, some don’t. I always love picking on my friends that don’t show up and miss out on a great time. Sometimes everybody arrives, only to split up later. Sometimes we end up in crazy places with crazy people we never knew or planned on meeting. And then there’s always the 3 a.m. breakfast at the local Denny’s.

The best time I ever had was on a trip to Vegas with 15 other guys for a bachelor’s party. Nothing was arranged except the hotel suites. Everything was done spur of the moment. Want to go to the pool? Let’s go! Want to go clubbing? Make a call to a connection and we’re in VIP. Want to go to the strip club? Flag down a limo and make a deal. It was the epitomy of chaos and poor planning but it was the best trip imaginable because we didn’t sweat the details. We let life happen. Sure we got pissed off at times. It was like herding cats. But after the trip was over, everybody agreed that it was an incredible experience that we’d all remember.

Life is not always a planned series of events. Things come up. You’re at the club with your friends, you meet a girl and end up ditching the fellas and going back to her place. You drink a little too much alcohol and end up passed out in a bathroom stall. Your buddies want to hit a bar after the club closes but you want to go home. Regardless of your lifestyle, part of the fun of any offline social life is the unexpected things that occur that you can’t predict.

Manks, your example is great. There is no technological solution to that situation. That situation is called life and it’s great. When we’re on death’s door and looking back at the good times in life, it’s those chaotic moments where you were living in the moment that will stand out as being the best.

I think MingleNow and any other service that aims for total efficiency of offline socializing is trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. I have no problem telling my friends where I’m going to be on Saturday night. Some will show. Some won’t. Some will come 2 hours late. No technology is going to fix that, and no technology should even try to. Some things aren’t broken and don’t need any fixing.

so people can find out where i go, why i go there ………… and so they can find me on a saturday night and beat the shit out of me…..

i dont think so thanks anyways

To those questioning positive comments here, I can say at least that the PR person MingleNow is working with is one of my favorites and I seriously doubt that’s going on. I think people just like the idea.

I really don’t think this is the next Google. Google was able to revolutionize the way we find information. Before the ranking of results, research through the internet was extremely difficult, if not nearly impossible. Not only do services similar to MingleNow exist (who knows if MingleNow will even be launched, which makes it strange that it’s reviewed here), but people can already find information about different places by simply searching Google. Another major point is that the target goal of any site dealing with social networking is around the 14-25 age group. The people in these age groups like music, movies, and other forms of entertainment (a reason Myspace is successful is that it includes a little of each of these forms of entertainment). They also like talking about themselves (hence blogs). I just can’t see people (specifically that age group) talking to each other and saying: “Did you see my MingleNow? I just added my favorite restaurant to it!”

MySpace?
Yelp?
City Search?
your phone- like 411?
or something like MingleNow?

Sorry, Social networking is not over in my book until you can slove that problem