The multi-talented Christine Hassler - the host of Twenty Something Yak - also has an advice column in the Huffington Post. Today she tackled the question of a troubled Atlanta reader trying to decide if it’s cool or not to try online dating. I provided a little “expert” quote to help ‘Online Dating-Phobic, 26′ answer her conundrum. Check it out here.
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At DEMOgala last week, I had the chance to chat with (and participate in a panel with) Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster and current CEO of Socializr. According to Abrams, Socializr is a new and improved alternative to Evite. On their site they define it as, “a new web service offering free online event invitations, and innovative ways to share event and party information with your friends.”
Like Ignighter to the online dating space, Socializr is attempting to disrupt a stale market that hasn’t adapted in years. One obstacle a disruptive company faces is creating awareness for their new product. Introducing a better alternative into an industry that has forever been dominated by one or two players isn’t easy because it means you have to infiltrate the consciousnesses of your target market.
To create awareness for other social calendar options, Abrams created a site called Evite Alternatives. We liked the idea so much that today we’re lauching eHarmony Alternatives.
While the site is run by the same guys who run your favorite group dating site, our hope is that it will truly provide a relatively democratic service to people looking for alternatives to uninspired conventional dating sites, like eHarmony. If you have sites that you think belong on the list of alternatives, let us know and we’ll add them. Or if you have some content that you want to add, we’re open to doing that too.
What do you think?
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5. Your date orders their food in only colors, textures, and smells.
4. Your date is Brooke Hogan.
3. Your date gets up from the table every 10 minutes to talk down their suicidal guinea pig via the answering machine.
2. Your date says you make them feel comfortable because they “get self-conscious around people in good shape.”
1. Your date has tattooed your name on their ankle before you’ve even met. Below an illustration of you. In the shower.
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Going on the recommendation of our buddies at Foodzie, the Ignighter team visited Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy Farm this morning, only about a ten minute drive from our house (our house below).
As much as we like goats (and I’d say we like them as much or maybe a little more than the average person), after reading Foodzie’s post about their visit, we concluded that feeding the critters hay for a little while would definitely justify our true intention for going. Eating a bunch of free goat cheese.
To get a really good feel of what the farm was like, we’d definitely recommend checking out the awesome video on Foodzie’s blog.
To get a really bad feel of what the farm was like, we recommend our crappy accidental video below:
While I’m hesitant to call the goat farm a sexy spot for a group date, it was a good way to spend some time outdoors doing something different in a beautiful setting. But most importantly, the cheese was the bomb.
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