TechCrunch shows top 30 social networking sites

This post was interesting comscore top growing social networks. The 30 number is odd though as a cut off point, but it illustrates one key thing: Social networks are huge, and growing fast. What would the top 50 look like?

Well, most of them. My former employer (Yahoo) is shutting down it's 360 service...I couldn't get it, even when it launched, and was confused as to why my fellows hopped on the bandwagon. Lycos, Windows are both slowing or declining...well, that makes sense. It's hard for mega corps to do personal well, and it's hard for a once shining star to keep it's fires lit (lycos).

FunAdvice has had a banner year, with amazing growth (you knew last October, we had 76K visitors? unreal). This October, we should top 1 million, or be very close. The top 5 days this month were all over 34K visitors, and weekly grow is still close to 5% at this point.

Thanks to everybody - Dara, Adam, Ericson, Harish and Widhadh (especially Widhadh, as that's my wife) for putting up with me for the last year. I drive hard, I complain, I fuss, and I act like one of my children frequently.

Here's a list of what didn't happen that could have been a big deal for us:
denied to speak at a conference over allegations of "cheating"
denied to present at another conference, probably because we have a business model & a ton more traffic, so it was hard to see how we need the money (we don't).
ignored by Om Malik, even after I spent 30 min on the phone with him :(
no response when introduced to the TechCrunch guys by one of their board members

Can you believe it? All those "connections" we have, amounting to zero. Still, we realize that write ups & fame for FunAdvice aren't really where it's at. Our product is working, our model is sound, and we have a TON of cool features in the pipeline.

The people who use our site, from what I can tell, have never been happier (and that includes me). Got suggestions? Let us know, or contact me personally (thedude) on the site via fun mail. If your idea makes sense, we'll add it to our list.

Thanks everybody.