@IILWY - I must be psychic. The EntreListers’ favorite ex-dating/casual-gaming site is back in the press. They’ve raised a new round of funding, one of the investors being Mark Andreessen. How cool. Check out the GigaOm post (and I bet TC try their best not to cover it now);
http://gigaom.com/2008/06/26/iminlikewithyou-gets-vc-cash-for-new-game/
The post also reveals a little more info about our man-on-the-inside, Charles Forman. Turns out he’s a Valleywag fave, to say the least;
http://valleywag.com/tech/charles-forman/iminlikewithyou-founder-not-as-big-a-jerk-as-youd-think-318980.php
http://valleywag.com/370335/reallynotinlikewithyou
I would like to think that EntreList.com, and the zillions of man hours we’ve poured in to writing about IILWY, has helped to sway the new investors, board members, and team members in their decision. And I’m looking forward to the next sunday session (whenever that may be), safe in the knowledge that the new funding will keep our favorite sunday down-time app around for longer.
Talking of which, Ryan and I are finally meeting next weekend! I’ll make sure we talk about a full-on EntreList meetup in Amsterdam….
@Micro-blogging & Jaiku - I’ve been revisiting my Jaiku account (got the username ‘neil’ back in the day), and it’s not bad at all. I have a different set of contacts from those on Twitter, so I’ve justified actually using another microblogging service (or visiting one when Twitter is down). @Peter, I’m following you, but it looks like you’re back on Twitter full-time. The funny thing is, the Jaiku rss import cron jobs obviously can’t handle a quick update of the imported Twitter feeds - they turn up at least 24 hours late (well, maybe this is a tactical decision - that wouldn’t surprise me).