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Also - Pax apologized and then spent over a year being an excellent citizen of the startup community and on social media. I worry about an ecosystem that is so unforgiving. I belie…

I'm saddened that Pax's work at Glimpse didn't help to redeem his reputation. Pax showed excellent judgment on social media for the entire time that he was my cofounder. And we did…

Wanna troll the NSA? Don't want sys admins & govt to see your pix? Glimpse is playing a joke on the NSA by making encryption normative. Our core user base is college kids, mostly s…

I wrote this in response: https://medium.com/glimpse-labs/5c6d2ff4ef0d PG has done a lot for the community and I think he deserves a conversation rather than a lynching. I'm callin…

Thanks. I was reluctant to post the link on HN (because it's a less warm audience than feminists on Twitter) but I think it's important that we talk about this. - Elissa (author)

FB Graph Search has been called an online dating killer. TC ran an April Fools joke saying FB was buying BangwithFriends. Here's commentary from the founders of okCupid, HowAboutWe…

This is a very useful insight. If brands can't rely on Facebook to reliably deliver messaging to a significant number of their fans, then these brands will spend less resources (bo…

It's a good business model ;) The issues with it are exacerbated by the promise they made to always be free (which makes it problematic to offer a tier of paid services even if use…

Yes, "Check Him Out." The article also mentioned that the app didn't have much of a user base, at least in the author's location (LA.) I'd really love to see women taking the initi…

Author Ann Friedman has a useful insight: "From the Web-based heavy hitters like OkCupid, eHarmony, and Plenty of Fish on down to newer apps like Skout, How About We, and MeetMoi, …

This can be solved by pre-registrations. I've done this before for two sites - Member of the Tribe and JSpot (both Jewish dating apps - http://JoinJspot.com ) This lets you wait un…

Apps like this don't have enough engagement. Women, in general, don't actively search & message men on dating sites. Online dating behavior isn't so different from offline courtshi…

What are the implications of Techstars under-reporting the deaths of their startups? Not to knock 100K in notes (and the other benefits of being in a reputable accelerator) but the…

What's relevant & interesting here is that this levels the playing field (at least somewhat.) Google's struggle to monetize mobile ads - on search & elsewhere - means that there is…

This is a headache to do (could someone build an app to make this easier?) but I'm putting this into my personal task list for next week.

We need to be careful not to read too much into this data without context. "Liking" a fan page used to be a much lighter thing before the FB interest graph became interwoven into o…

Tested CrazyBlindDate last night. Recognized a friend from okcupid labs (despite the surrealist facial shuffling) and clicked to set up a date. It gave me two options to meet him a…

I don't believe that this is simply about enabling advertisers to message users. Until I have more data this is speculation on my part. That said - I believe this is an attempt to …