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Exclusive: ProfileBuilder Acquires ZingFu.com
by Duncan Riley on September 18, 2007

profile-builder.jpgUpdate: This deal fell through. ZingFu was never acquired.

Online identity management platform company ProfileBuilder has acquired ZingFu.com, a social-networking resource site with 600,000 registered members.

Milwaukee based ZingFu.com provides “zany content,” with products including Zing, a photo manipulation tool, Pets, a “tomgatchi style toy,” and Zany Cards, pretty much as the title suggests.

ZingFu.com has released an exclusive TechCrunch 40 zany card section to celebrate the acquisition; see pic below.

The integration of the two sites will provide ZingFu’s users “with a platform to further enhance their online presence.”

ProfileBuilder has also entered a partnership with with Mebeam.com, a Sydney Australia based startup that provides online video conferencing.

Under the deal ProfileBuilder and Mebeam will exchange resources to build co-delivered sites, with ProfileBuilder users being offered extensive video conferencing tools.

The terms of the ZingFu.com acquisition were not disclosed.

ProfileBuilder is a sponsor of the TechCrunch40 conference.

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  • I am interested in valuation metrics. What is a price per registered user?

  • Does anyone really use this profilebuilder?
    For my social management, I use 8hands, cause it’s a desktop tool
    and that’s where I get all my profiles updates.
    I don’t get these websites.. If I’m gonna open my browser, I might as well log in to my social networks..

  • Yakov,

    Should not be less than $5/user for sure, i have not seen acquisitions that go below $5/user, especially if userbase is larger than 50,000

  • How can a reputation management service reach full swing and hit critical mass? There would really need to be a connection with the issue of data/reputation management across various social networking platforms…Which is the best reputation service company out there at this point? I haven’t been seeing anything as of yet offering value in this space…

  • hit and critical mass you will hit only if u do something new and unique and if u are the first to offer a specific service, after that is hard to do something big. differentiate and do not be another clone will also help alot

  • how do I arrive at valuations for social network sites based on registered number of users? or is there another way of valuing a start up socila net work site?

  • how do I arrive at valuations for social network sites based on registered number of users? or is there another way of valuing a start up social net work site?

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