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CNET Relaunches Consumating

Michael Arrington
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Consumating is a tag-based dating site that launched in 2005 and was acquired by CNET in December 2005.

The site relaunched today with a few notable changes. Much of the new stuff is cosmetic, although they’ve also created discussion boards around any topic users choose to create. With these changes, Consumating is looking less like a dating site and more like a pure social network (where dating plays large role). This is also a sign that CNET took the acquisition seriously and intends to push the service forward.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dash_Chang/219537 Dash Chang

    Great interview with Google on Open Social. Is it too little, too late?

    Our experience with Facebook Connect, Google FriendConnect, Myspace, and Twitter shows that Open Social is running way behind Facebook and Twitter. In fact, even FriendConnect out performs.

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  • http://lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/google-and-the-social-cloud022309/ Google and the “Social Cloud”…02.23.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zach_Coelius/13902805 Zach Coelius

    Great post Kevin, it is awesome to see Google so deeply involved in the space. Keep it up.

  • http://www.appleblotter.com Apple Blotter

    Excellent post! Not only is it great to hear that Google is getting involved in OpenID and the like, but that this conversation is finally starting to happen. This will certainly be something we consider with our social news websites and something we’d like to implement as soon as possible. -Mike

  • http://john.jones.name john.jones.name

    simple 2 questions

    basically friend connect works with OpenID so why not the rest of google ?
    realtime chat needs a standard other than jabber ?

    regards

    John Jones

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  • Guy

    Nice article,
    but in order to sign in to the Open Social web site
    one should sign up by providing his email address, birthday and fill up a captcha?

    http://tinyurl.com/bk3g9y

    Are these standards are just for us “the small” , or maybe their only aim is to perpetuate Google’s , AOL, MySpace’s hegemony as the only “identity” providers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tracy_Bech/508129636 Tracy Bech

    Super interesting. thanks!

  • http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2009/02/end-of-feb-09-blogging Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » End of Feb ‘09 blogging

    [...] Kevin Marks makes it clear that Google aspirations for OpenSoical are far beyond just being a platfo… This post is a great overview of the Open Stack today. [...]

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    Matt Cutts just tweeted this. Great read. I am going to get more involved with G friend connect. Thanks.

  • http://soeet.com Chris

    I’m building Citrus style AD/LDAP enterprise application deployment with Open Social, Zend Framework, Android SDK 2.0 and the iPhone SDK for mobiles, including new features for enterprise such as those found in HTML5, and exploiting open social in conjunction with native mobile capabilities.

    Kevin, I hope to see you at Google I/O in May.

  • http://socialmediainfluence.com/2009/02/24/bebo-embraces-the-lifestream/ Bebo embraces the lifestream | socialmediainfluence.com

    [...] Marks, Google’s developer advocate for OpenSocial, authors a social web Q&A on OpenSocial in a guest post on [...]

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  • http://Friends.Info.PL Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

    I don’t really need any friends.

    I just want the best answers/solutions to my questions/problems.

    If this gets done in a friendly manner, then that might make me happy.

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  • http://www.wecando.biz Ian Hendry

    Couldn’t agree more Kevin.

    Although Facebook has started to host OpenID meetings, it is get to integrate OpenID based authentication into its site, meaning there are 150 million people with a fairly key indentity which won’t work with what you are doing due to its proprietary technology.

    What has Facebook said they will be doing in the future?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph_Alpern/22701841 Joseph Alpern

    I believe the emerging “open social stack” will be increasingly relevant and crutial as location-based networking and personal identification capacties grow, not only within an on-line network, but in the real world. It will be important for individuals to have very detailed control over the way they interact with social apps and deploy information about themselves to the rest of the world. This is very exciting to watch, as the evolution of these standards will play a major role in the way people conduct themselves as the new wave of mobile networking and locations based services become widespread. Can’t wait to see things unfold over the coming months and years !

  • KingLomo

    basically; lets just give it all over to Google and OpenSocial and let them aggregate everything. They are so kind.

    Thanks Google!

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    [...] Kevin Marks nt. projektu Google OpenSocial, TechCrunchIT.com, “Social Web Q&A with Google’s Kevin Marks“ [...]

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    And so nicely justified as well.

  • http://www.sahakara.co.uk Scott Herbert

    This may not be the place to ask but…..

    Does anyone know of a good Ruby on Rails guide to intragrating OpenSocial?

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    [...] Social Web Q&A with Google’s Kevin Marks, TechCrunchIT [...]

  • http://epeus.blogspot.com Kevin Marks

    Changing the rest of Google to support OpenID is a big job, as many parts assume that a Google account is an email address. Blogger has supported OpenID for commenting for some time, and Google’s OpenID provider support.

    Read the proposal – it’s built on Jabber, but it also defines a way to send and receive events from Javascript gadgets.

  • Dan

    If you’re interested in writing OpenSocial apps in Ruby on Rails, there is a Ruby client library for OpenSocial here: http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-ruby-client/

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    You can implement OpenSocial without anything touching Google servers. It is an open specification designed to only share data with those you choose to.

  • http://savethepixel.org/ Ben Hunt

    I’ve been pondering this for a few years now, resulting in a Grand Unified Theory in Summer ’08, where I guessed that Microsoft would be best-placed to make a truly social web a reality. Explained here: http://webdesignfromscratch.com/blog/web30-concept-notes.php

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    [...] Google’s view on social network and open stack Google’s Kevin Marks does a guest post on Techcrunch (it’s not really an interview right?) that discuses Google’s view on the open stack and [...]

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    [...] Google’s view on social network and open stack Google’s Kevin Marks does a guest post on Techcrunch (it’s not really an interview right?) that discuses Google’s view on the open stack and [...]

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    He said it’s not all Google, but a consortium using open source code where it fits. See “Open” in the name?

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  • http://www.whatsbestnext.com/2009/03/where-social-networking-is-going/ Where Social Networking is Going : What’s Best Next

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  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/mariatseng Maria Tseng

    Anyone going to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mar 31-Apr 3? Would like to attend or create a Web2Open session on Open social.

    Let’s form a special interest group and meet there.

    –Maria

  • http://www.mearo.co.uk/2009/03/the-battle-for-the-single-web-identity/ The Battle For The Single Web Identity

    [...] the web is more interesting when it takes place with friends”.  Kevin Marks recently did an interview with Techcrunch on the social web.  It’s definitely worth a [...]

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  • http://www.upoff.com/2009/06/22/engineering-leader-kevin-marks-leaves-google-for-the-social-web/ Engineering leader Kevin Marks leaves Google for the social web | UpOff.com

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    Changing the rest of Google to support OpenID is a big job, as many parts assume that a Google account is an email address. Blogger has supported OpenID for commenting for some time, and Google’s OpenID provider support.

    Does anyone know of a good Ruby on Rails guide to intragrating OpenSocial?

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