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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.

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

Because one things for sure - it’s probably a fair bit slower than your ISP claims it is. Check out the InternetFrog who will test your speed for you. Thanks Mr. Frog

A very interesting list at Jottings.com that presents several questions. Who was it that actually registered these domains back then (especially the first ever one) and what exactly did they plan to do with them? On several occasions entire batches of domains were registered on the same day - by the same person/organisation?

Good pub quiz question - what was the first ever registered dot com name?

It was probably about a year ago that I first heard about StumbleUpon. It got noted in the “must check it out some time” mental category, one which is hugely over-flowing. And then, like all brilliant applications it just kept getting mentioned; by friends, in news articles, bloggers, everywhere. So I finally bit the bullet and installed it; absolutely superb. How did I ever manage without it? My own internet slave, instantly ready and eager to serve me internet-zen whenever it’s wanted (which is very, very often). How else would I have found this list of the world’s most beautiful libraries?

So thanks to BoredStop.com, StumbleUpon and Flickr user “Curious Expeditions” whose photo it was. I must get round to visiting the Strahov Monestary library some day…

I read on Yahoo today that a Chinese guy from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou died after playing internet games for three consecutive days! Wow - playing games for three days solid without sleep, that’s hardcore dedication. No mention of what the game was, it would sure be interesting to know (aswell as knowing which avatar he chose).

Maybe one to add to the wikipedia list of unusual deaths? (which is well worth a read if you’ve never seen it before). It’s an article which made me think about my own death - when will I die? How will I die? How would I want to die?

And then I started thinking about life again - what exactly is it that I want to accomplish before I die? Would I happy with my life if I died tomorrow? Anyway, no internet gaming for me for a while, so it goes.

I haven’t been on youtube that much recently and didn’t know that users are able to customise their profile pages. When I discovered this I decided to check a few out. My favourite one is by a user called nusy12 who has an animated one. I’m not sure if he made it himself, but it’s very clever. You can view it here.

Here’s a screenshot of it - all the little dudes in the picture are running around and interacting with each other.