Archive for November 3rd, 2007

Plenty of Fish in the Sea that is

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Question - which website is run by a single person (actually, it sounds like he’s recently got his first employee), earns $30k a day ($10 millski a year) and boasts 500,000 unique log-ins per day?

Er…..that would be Plenty of Fish, a leading online dating service run by Markus Frind, that looks to do for dating what Craigslist did for classified advertising.

Fishies

See this ReadWriteWeb article for talk of a $1bn valuation…sweet.

“Cuz you know theres otha fish in the sea, that is, in the sea,
In the sea that is” ….Pharcyde lyrics dontcha know

Advent Cleaver Treats

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

From today’s Time’s online, the advent calendar that features a serial killer, clutching a meat cleaver, ready to chop up kids skating on the frozen river. The man isn’t just any old serial killer, he’s identified as Fritz Haarmann (name spelled incorrectly by the Times) who killed 24 people in Hanover after the First World War.

calendar

Cleaver Man

I can’t decide whether or not I agree that it should be pulled from shops. Historically accurate - yes. Tasteful? Er….

Either way, it makes a great image-based question for a pub quiz.