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Dogster Raises $1 Million
VentureBeat reports that Dogster has raised $1 million in financing. VentureBeat also blogs about how dog owners are writing diaries from the dogs point of view.
But more interestingly, owners are pretending they are the dogs, and writing little diaries, and the diaries are often becoming more about themselves, as seen through their dogs eyes. Take, for example, the "dog of the week," a dalmatian/labrador retriever (pictured here) named "TK." You can see all kinds of things on his profile, including character traits, hobbies, and you can also check out his diary. And this is where it gets interesting. As is typical elsewhere on the site, TK's diary quickly becomes more about "Mommy" or "Daddy," less about TK. Under pretense of their dogs doing the talking, owners are expressing themselves in all kinds of ways that they wouldn't normally.
Thanks to VentureBeat we now know it was not the dogs who were writing all those diaries. Parents often do the same with baby blogs and write them from the child's point of view. VentureBeat says the popular Dogster site received 17 million pageviews last month. Dogster has a direct competitor at Pawspot and there are also several other pet social networks.
Posted on September 14, 2006
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Pet Social Networking Sites Grow
Newsweek has an article about social networking sites for pet owners. Some of the sites like Dogster have been around since 2004. Dogster now has 180,000 members from 125 different countries. Here is a list of pet social networking sites and their membership size as reporting by Newsweek
Dogster: 180,000 members
Catster.com: 76,000 members
Hamsterster.com: under 1,000 members
Petster.com: 11,000 members
The sites let people created profiles for their pets that include photographs, hobbies, tricks, etc. They also have friend features like the social networks for people do. Newsweek's article left out a few pet-related social networks like Fuzzster, Backwash Pets and PawSpot.
Posted on July 15, 2006
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