CaffeineLounge - People Friends Social

Latest News!

April, 2006
CaffeineLounge has been moved to faster servers, and our traffic has been steadily increasing, however, I am not investing any more of my time into designing the site because I am now working on what I think will be the next big thing. Contact me if you would like to own a small but growing and very custom social site.

December, 2005
NewsCorp buys myspace.com for 580,000,000
That's right folks.. Fox has created a new media company called Fox Interactive and they are buying up hot properties. Myspace is the most visited site on the planet - although their profit margins aren't through the roof. Fox bought MySpace in order to advertise it's products and services to the millions of people that visit there everyday!

Opportunity

I'm looking for investors with business and / or legal experience with a passion for internet technology to be a part of the next big thing to hit the internet social networking scene. The initial investment will go towards equipment and marketing since the site is 99% complete and has already been running for 2 years with active users. Investment money will go towards upgrading equipment, marketing and possibly bringing on another programmer.

CaffeineLounge is unique in that it is striving to be an entertainment based social networking site that will compete with large "dating" and "social networking" sites. What current "social networking" sites lack today, are embedded ways to meet people based on a narrowed down search of what you are looking for. In other words, they are not good dating sites. Big dating sites like Match and Yahoo Personals lack ways to meet people through the "social networking" aspect of online communities. Recently, Match has removed all of it's "social networking" technology, and is currently marketing as just a "dating" site. CaffeineLounge has built it's site through extensive research of both markets, and aims to be the best in both domains.

To keep it interesting, I have come up with a very unique idea for a search that would possibly get national attention, and possibly a lot of free advertising via news and talk shows all over the world. I will only reveal this secret idea to the right person who is serious about joining me on this wild adventure!

If you are looking to buy the site outright, would like more information, or are looking for some other kind of partnership, contact me. I will consider any serious offer.

News Articles

Excerpt from the MSNBC article:

A REAL RETURN ON ROMANCE

Market leader Match.com now has over 1 million subscribers customers forking over about $25 a month.

uDate.com, which also operates Kiss.com, had $1.5 million in revenue in June 2001; last month alone, the company took in $4 million, according to president Martin Clifford, and the company has just enjoyed its fourth straight profitable quarter.

Yahoo, No. 2 in the online personals category, is much cagier about its growth, but the company beat its chest about its love site at its most recent quarterly earnings announcement, saying personals made a �very significant contribution� to revenues.

�I don't know if you'll continue to see the current mad growth,� said Jupiter analyst Stacey Herron. �But online personals will still grow at a healthy rate.�

The key, Match.com president Tim Sullivan says, has been marketing efforts to �legitimize the category� during the past 12 months.

�My own sister got married last month to a guy she met on Match. It's very mainstream now,� Sullivan said. �Anywhere I go, if I'm in a crowd of more than 6 people and say what I do, invariably someone comes forward and says that they have been using Match.�

History

August 2002
CaffeineLounge starts as a dating only site ClickRomance.com

October 2003
ClickRomance goes from a dating only site to a social networking site.

December 2003
CaffeineLounge miserably attempts to implement live streaming Flash with a takes anything in and generates .flv files on the fly site.

Present Day
Currently the site is running full speed with new users every day. I haven't had much time to commit to new features but I will keep you up to date if I think of any.. Or you can email me and give me a few ideas of your own.