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Our friend Bambi Francisco of Vator.tv sat down with Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati, and Ezra Roizen to talk about Ignighter. They show a clip from our San Francisco TechStars presentation (we’re forever grateful to Jason Mendelson, our friend and mentor, for being such a good sport) and then have a discussion about Ignighter that includes the question “Will group dating appeal to those over 30?”.

What are your thoughts on the topic?

March 11th, 2009 Posted by Adam | Blogs, Presentations, Press, group activities, group dating, techstars |

The following is a guest post by Molly Bush, the charming young lady who helped Ignighter out over the summer by catalyzing our community and adding a much needed female voice to the group. She’s currently looking for a job which means her own irreverent blog is now password protected. Molly can’t go too long without sharing her commentary so we decided to have her write a guest post for us. The following is a reaction to this article on the popular academic website, ParisHiltonWatch, which alleges that Paris Hilton and George Clooney have been group dating:

I love internet sleuthing. Which is absolutely normal and not creepy. I also love celebrities and I love stalking them. But again, not like a creepy Paula Abdul obsessed fan. More like an internet socialite. It’s endearing, I swear. When I came across an article about Paris Hilton possibly dating George Clooney (and by dating, I mean group dating) I knew exactly where to find them!!! The only website I know about for group dating… and now for celebrity sleuthing too? Seemed to good to be true.

I signed onto Ignighter.com to see if they had profiles set up.  Sadly for them they aren’t members yet. I really think they might want to consider it, though, for great group date ideas, or in case they want to group date with someone other than their managers… or if maybe George Clooney wants to date me instead.  If for some strange reason he doesn’t want to date a stalker he could try some of the less stalkerish friends in my group on for size.

I like group dating for many reasons, mostly that it seems like less terrible and less alcoholic behavior to get tipsy (read: dance on tables) on a group date rather than on a regular old skool, awkward date. Another reason I love group dating is that it makes me look less loserish (read: unemployed). Example: If a potential suitor asks me what I do for a living and I respond “nothing”, a friend is most likely going to jump in with something that’s true like “yeah, but she is really funny” or “yeah but she has really marketable web research skills, especially in the celebrity research socialite department” or “yeah, but she is really tan and pretty!” That always helps. But weird if I said it about myself all by myself on a not-so-group date.

But, celebrities seem to be able to drink as much as they like. And they don’t even have to worry about their bar tabs. If they went to Catacombs for example, they’d be able to afford many, many $2 vodka sodas. A celebrity would never have to worry about coming off as a loser (like I do) they are celebrities after all! But I am all in for celebrities group dating. It feels like I am finally where I belong, thanks to group dating; on the same dating-playing field as Paris Hilton. Maybe one day we’d even be group dating together!!! And because we were together, group dating, I’d be there (when we both drank too much) to make sure she was wearing underwear. I guess celebrities must need good friends and group dates to help them out as well.

January 5th, 2009 Posted by Adam | Guest Post, group activities, group dating, ignighter, meet new people |

Yay! We found our group and are ready to tackle the profile. For the sake of this social experiment, we (and our potential dates out there) shall remain blog-nonymous.

Here’s the goal: Come across as being awesome, attract males, and find pictures of ourselves where no one has closed eyes/shots in hands/friends making obscene gestures in the background, etc.

#1   The group name

Things we are not: Sexy Sistahs, Devilish Divas, NYCBabes08.  Things we are: adorable, sarcastic, adventurous, and of course, modest.  It is an intense creative process to come up with a name accurately representing multiple people but we’ve gone with “Good Looking Out.”  Get it?  Cuz we’re good… looking… and we like to go out? Okay, moving on.

#2   Where you know each other from

Do you have a while?  Let’s just say we started out as friends, and friends of friends and now we’re all just friends.

#3  Some of our common interests are

Hmmm… to tell the truth or not tell the truth?  Ok truth.  Our common interests are: eating pizza, watching an entire season of a television show in one day, liquor.

Fake interests that we tell other people we like so as to seem normal: sports (spectator and participatory), snorkeling, hobbies, etc.

Our profile will strike a good balance between the two, and therefore be mostly accurate and trustworthy.

#4  Assign each group member a yearbook superlative (Great question!!!)

Here’s a collection of some of ours:
“Best Party Promoter”
“Most Likely To Save the World”
“Most Likely to Star on a Reality Show”
“Most Likely to Pen Their Memoirs”

#5   Some things we spend a lot of time talking about are

Again, truth?  We hate to sound trivial, but don’t want to sound like smarty pantses know-it-alls either.  We talk about what most 25 year olds talk about: work (lack of, misery over, ambitions for), boys (lack of, misery over, ambitions for), tv shows, hopes and dreams and butterflies and stuff… Perhaps on our real post we’ll make some allusion to caring about world events and culture.

#6  Some things we like to do together are

We enjoy sitting outside at restaurants because it is always, maybe, definitely, the last time you’ll be able to do it this year.  We also enjoy using expired student IDs to get discount admission to museums.  Additionally, we enjoy lazing about in parks and on couches and such.

So, this process had us cracking up and we discovered even more things we had in common!  We will put up our REAL profile on the Ignighter site this week, but this post was a great exercise that got our creative juices flowing.  While you’re checking out the groups that are up you can poss try to ID us… and then we’ll have to kill you.  Now, get together with your pals, fix yourselves some cocktails, and get to work on your profile!

Good Looking Out ☺

December 8th, 2008 Posted by Adam | Guest Post, Parties, With a Little Help From Our Friends, group activities, group date ideas, group dating, group dating ideas |

This is the first in our new series of Friday Fun Interactive Posts where we ask for reader feedback on a variety of topics.
Today’s inaugural topic is the Sausage Party.

Everybody knows that when a group of guys get together it’s affectionately called a “Sausage Party”. This is so widely used that it has become a generally understood term in young society’s lexicon. In today’s gender equal world, however, it seems troubling that there is no widely accepted term for the female equivalent.

For years I’ve been using the self-coined phrase, “Chilean Sea Bash”, but this tends to be met with a confused reaction more than one of immediate understanding.

So now I’m opening up the floor to you, kind readers. Do you have a term that you and your friends typically use to describe a party of only (or mostly) women? If not, can you think of a good one?

Leave responses in the comments.

**Please remember that this is a company blog so I encourage you to use discretion and try to make your responses appropriate. Thanks!**

October 24th, 2008 Posted by Adam | Friday Fun Interactive Post, Group Outings, Large Events, Parties, dating ideas, group activities, meet new people |