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18 unique website ideas.. - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:35:31 +0000

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By: Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:58:07 +0000

Looks like DareJunkies.com is dead now.. I remember looking at this site some time ago and the winning videos all included the same actors. Looks like BS.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:27:43 +0000

I can imagine lawsuits arising from this pretty quickly.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:19:02 +0000

Its an interesting concept but it would be more interesting to see if there many takers.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:53:25 +0000

There’s a smash an iPhone dare going on for £96, with another tit flashing dare below it going for £50, from the looks of things it won’t be long before the ’shock value’ of these sort of dares go stale.

I want to dare congress to start impeaching Darth Cheney.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:40:37 +0000

Interesting concept.

By: Frida

Frida — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:24:04 +0000

Sounds dangerous - they should also use http://www.kushcash.com to cut down on the fees - fees can kill ya’.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:47:19 +0000

Glad to see Web2.0 pushing back the frontiers of civilization and humanity.

By: Nemrut

Nemrut — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:39:08 +0000

…will a site like this simply encourage borderline criminal activity for the sake of entertainment. how long before there is a dares to have ‘real’ swordfight or to go pull up down women’s skirts.

sites like this dont bode well for western civilization..

By: Sameer

Sameer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:43:06 +0000

I think this is a unique idea. Hope to hear more.

By: DareU

DareU — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:17:14 +0000

This site is a GREAT idea, I love the concept, but the all the current dares suck.

Their challange will be to keep a steady flow of interesting dares.

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:01:32 +0000

WOW techcrunch coverage is really suffering this week

By: bdb

bdb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:55:41 +0000

They are based i the UK, so any lawsuits would have to filed there. Anyone here a barrister?

By: bob shaheen

bob shaheen — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:16:55 +0000

I agree with George, their Facebook app is killer! too bad the myspace one is limited.

Good luck, & let the lawsuits roll!

By: patricia

patricia — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:11:52 +0000

Well, two points for coming up with a way to engage and attract users, but agree on the risk aspect, lawsuits, etc.

I do think there’s something to finding ways to drive users to create certain types of videos, but I also believe more professionally produced content will evetually dominate the web and user created will take a second seat to it.

Just my .2

By: George Greenfeld

George Greenfeld — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:26:02 +0000

I like it because of the Facebook app., any tools that makes these boring social networking sites more viseral and interactive with my friends is welcome! I loved linking up with old friends on these sites but then found I had nothing to with them, now I can send them all silly odd dares or challenge the fat middle age sods to run marathon, and prove it with a Nike+, so it becomes a fun community tool.

Does tha make it a viable biz? I don’t know and don’t care as i’m not a shareholder!

By: watchplayer

watchplayer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:49:42 +0000

在中国为什么不能成功？谁敢来试试

By: heri

heri — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:48:27 +0000

speaking of ethics fun, they should partner with ustream or justin.tv and then the country would go crazy.

By: HH!

HH! — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:47:56 +0000

How does this get to TC?

By: landmasterflux

landmasterflux — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:39:10 +0000

All there is to say is nother better than buying humilliation.
Its a grand plan and for all of you pizza faced pessimists who have nothing better to do than dog anyones elses success..
Stuff it

Monster dare is definatly going on my blog

By: Michael Bruegen

Michael Bruegen — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:37:21 +0000

RE: Rishi, I was just on the site and it appears they have widgets set up so you can do just what you suggest, ie dares via Facebook, I just set one up and sent it to my frinds.
As for law suits, I’m no lawyer but it does seem scary if people get out of hand. On the whole, i will use it to liven up my facebook life…

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:33:14 +0000

No you are liable for the resulting content created by viewers immitating things broadcasted via your site. Just like Jackass and the lawsuits it incurred. http://www.power-of-attorneys......pid_ID=167

Encouraging dangerous and often illegal behavior is enough to get you in trouble…

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:28:59 +0000

any idea of Lawsuit?

- if I dare a friend to do something and he hurts himself; am I liable>?

-RB

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:17:24 +0000

This startup will not be able to maintain a constant revenue stream, as its market is too niche.

If you want to bet on something with your friends online, and there was significant demand for this betting, then more users would use a “Myspace” or “Facebook” provided widget than an entire site for the process. That way, the betting technology would be integrated into user’s already available technology.

Therefore, the idea of having an entirely separate site for “daring” sounds illogical.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:32:35 +0000

This is all well and good until they get sued for a wrongful death. Encouraging people to take unsupervised risks without any training is both irresponsible and dangerous. The owners of these websites are taking undue risk and will be responsible for the injuries that ensue. Sure Youtube places stunts on their website, but there is no encouragement nor is their a monetary payoff.

I would feel horrible as an owner of a web-based business that caused the injury, disability or even death of another individual for the entertainment of others.