Bob Hope MGM Movie Legends Collection (Alias Jesse James/Boy, Did I Get the Wrong Number/The Facts of Life/I'll Take Sweden/The Princess and the Pirate/The Road to Hong Kong/They've Got Me Covered)
Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
THE INDEPENDENT – Nov 11 – James Hong, co-founder of HotOrNot was interviewed by Viral Loop author, Adam L. Penenberg. Hong recounts the origins of HotOrNot and its rise to fame as one of the world's first viral phenomenons. The site was launched on October 9th, 2000 with an email sent to 42 of Hong's friends. By the end of the day, the site had 37,000 unique...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Adam L Penenberg's book Viral Loop examines the spread of "virals" - ads, films and emails that get forwarded by so many poeple that they become global phenomenoms - and how they have become the business model for some of today's most celebrated companies. Here, Adam intervews James Hong, a co-founder of 'HotOrNot', one of the first viral phenomenoms.
Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... first sentence of the book had me completely hooked. “Two Heinekens into a lazy Tuesday afternoon, James Hong, a twenty-seven-year-old dot-com refugee from Mountain View California, was listening to his roommate, Jim Young, a Berkeley graduate student in electrical engineering, wax on about a woman he had spotted at a party the previous weekend. Young, also twenty-seven, insisted...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Adam L Penenberg's book Viral Loop examines the spread of "virals" - ads, films and emails that get forwarded by so many poeple that they become global phenomenoms - and how they have become the business model for some of today's most celebrated companies. Here, Adam intervews James Hong, a co-founder of 'HotOrNot', one of the first viral phenomenoms.
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... ; Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist; Christopher Sacca, Head of Special Initiatives, Google; James Hong, Founder Hot or Not; Biz Stone of Twitter ; John Warnock, co founder and former Chairman, Adobe Systems; Alex Welch, CEO, Founder Photobucket; Evan Williams, founder Blogger; Pete Flint, co-Founder & CEO, Trulia ; Professor, Baroness Susan Greenfield, University of Oxford;...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... swagger. Wonderful electric music score. The cast includes Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Champ Wong, and Kate Burton. (99 minutes, 1986)
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... to let two other people make their points. In a comment to the post yesterday NotOrNot founder James Hong talks about how his company tried, and quickly removed, scammy offers from their site. He says “In a nutshell, the offers that monetize the best are the ones that scam/trick users.” And PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind talks about being pitched by companies like Offerpal and...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... less scrupulous advertisers like Video Professor and Tatto take their place. HotOrNot cofounder James Hong said it best in a comment to our post yesterday outlining the scams : “In a nutshell, the offers that monetize the best are the ones that scam/trick users. Sure we had netflix ads show up, and clearly those do convert to some degree, but i’m pretty sure most of the money ended...
