Pyrexia’s Crepitus
Living. Adult content. And looking the other way.
Another supposedly great web-based service surrendering to those crazy Nigerians and their kin. One look at the comment thread of all sorts of people who’ve have some bad eBay experience, this is a strong undeniable suit.
Just this past week I attempted to use eBay to auction off two notebook computers and quickly discovered that this was an impossible task thanks to all the scammers who now appear to have almost complete control of the site. Yes, you heard that right. Complete control. The way these scammers work is they send you an email asking to purchase your item outside of eBay, then when you won’t bite they hose your auction using a hacked account effectively preventing you from making a legitimate sale and at the same time sticking you with huge sellers fees from eBay. Don’t believe me? Here is the proof .
So how would other honest people, like this hilarious, brain-damage-inducing and enterprising Filipino musician [thanks to Alvin Julian for this link] ever hope now for vindication and a cheap shot at fame?
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TechCrunch recently profiled 13 Dating Sites that give it to you more-or-less free. If you’ve been hungry for love and looking for it in all the wrong places, like fastfood urinals and public parks, search filthily no more.
The current explosion in dating sites, which has no “detectable” long tail yet, is mostly inspired by the sheer amount of cash generated by established sites like Match.com and Yahoo Personals.
Here, Michael Arrington talks more about the cash:
Online dating is big business, drawing about 4 million U.S. Internet users daily in June 2006 (and 25 million monthly), and they spend a daily average of nearly 17 minutes each on these sites. That adds up to a lot of page views - almost 4.5 billion per month (source: Comscore). And that doesn’t take into account the billion-a-day Myspace page views, which many people argue is basically a very large dating site. All told, at least 15% of U.S. Internet users visit an online dating site each month.
The two largest dating sites are Yahoo Personals and Match.com, respectively, with a combined 9.3 million monthly visitors. Both allow free browsing, but to communicate with other members you must pay a fee. Match.com charges $30/month for the basic plan; Yahoo’s fee is $25/month. Both sites also offer premium plans that attempt to help you find a compatible mate.
My generally crappy self, however, tells me to chuck all the dating sites, tread the road less travelled, and give my Diggs to Irish blogger Damien Mulley’s "How to use Google to get a girl and get laid." Now that is priceless.
I have a soft spot in my groin for South Korea. It’s the home of some of the hottest girls this planet has ever produced. But I’m hoping that one of their greatest exports, online gaming, doesn’t leave them all dying like flies in their rooms.
In South Korea, IHT reports:
Some play themselves to death. Last year, the deaths of at least seven people were attributed to excessive game- playing. In August, a 28-year-old man died after nearly 50 straight hours of playing online games. In December, a 38-year-old day worker collapsed and died at an Internet café; his logs showed that he had played for 417 hours in his last 20 days. There are private telephone emergency services that dispatch ambulances for children who collapse while gaming or refuse to come out of their rooms, where they remain glued to online games or threaten violence at intervening parents.
Wow. Something about this tells me it’s just a taste of things to come, especially when high-speed Internet becomes commonplace. I understand the addiction; I’ve been an avid gamer since the IBM XT. But this? Come on.
Moniker.com is selling the Internet domain HELL.com for a minimum price of $1 million. Inspired by the successful sale of Sex.com earlier this year, Moniker was confident that with the world as fucked up as it is, there would be many moneyed devils who would snatch up the opportunity to own the Internet’s finest address. But as of last Friday, nobody was biting. They’re waiting for you, kid.
story via Reuters
