Dad Daily – social site just for dads
Dad Daily has launched recently as a special site for dads. Mashable reviews Dad Daily…”began a preview mode today, is a social network for dads founded by tax attorney and dad of two Art Giacosa. The site is still in the early stages, they say, and the feature set is very similar to the original version of MySpace – there are blogs, classifieds, events, groups, chat, photo rating, search, music, videos, a forum and a place to share parenting stories. You can also send messages to other users and see their online/offline status. Users have profile pages, too, of course.”
Some of the feature set does seem a little standard, I am yet to find out if this site was developed IP from scratch or IP from a social site creator that allows you an “instant social networking site” for a small payment. It seems for success, the ability to handle scale (1 million plus users benchmark) with the tech as well as a unique user experience and functionality is critical, there is your value (which ever way you define value – money or members). In my opinion what makes any site unique, is something on offer ‘above and beyond’ the standard set of features myspace created as must haves. I must say though, it is refreshing to see that dads aren’t left to their own social networking devices.
Dads are a driver in providing the tech devices in the home for mom/kids and have passions to be catered for and their own unique ways of networking socially.
What I believe Dad Daily may like to consider is the passions that dads revel in such areas as sport, news, hobbies and somehow link this into Dad Daily contributing to the site being a “Cool place for Dads” not just a networking place for dads that linkedin provides currently.
Jotspot Acquired by Google
Jotspot (a wiki start up) was acquired by Google the other day, which also included Jotspot’s Family Site, profiled here…details of the amount paid by Google is undisclosed, however according to The San Fran Cronicle in an interview with Joe Kraus, Jotspot…
“had $5.2 million in venture capital funding from Mayfield Fund and Redpoint Ventures, attracted 2,000 companies from eBay to Intel Corp. to use its software, counting 30,000 paying customers and some 300,000 free users. Kraus started talking to Google about eight months ago when Google bought Upstartle, the maker of Writely, an online word-processing program.”
Kraus co-founded Excite and for Jotspot…“Amid an Internet resurgence powered by geeks and entrepreneurs as determined to build something cool as they are to make money, Kraus sought to build an independent company. But he knew a lot of folks at Google (he bought CEO Eric Schmidt’s single-prop six-seater plane), and he knew JotSpot could drown in the search giant’s footprint.”
When Jotspot launched, I was in love with it. You could write anything and see all your revisions, plus have others edit the same content. The family site was also really good, and obviously Jotspot has gone to an amazing home…only having to move 6 miles down the road to the awesome campus of Google…again if the deal is sweet enough, you would move 6 miles, even 60,000 miles, wouldn’t you…?
