September 2007

Minti Mommies v’s TechCrunch Techies

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September

There is a lot of commotion going on in the comments of TechCrunch’s latest blog post about Minti. It’s mommies v techies.

Duncan Riley was kind enough to review Minti in a TechCrunch blog post a few days ago. He briefly mentioned the technology behind Minti, singling out the Member and Article Rank algorithm, and also touched on the social benefits of Minti without going in to too much detail.

Well TechCrunch’s commenters had obviously had enough of hearing about a “parenting site” and started expressing themselves in the comments. Little did they know the passion contained in Minti moms. As soon as they heard their was a blog post about Minti they went across and had a look themselves. They were shocked into action by the comments and let the TechCrunch Techies have it.

After a few days there are now over 40 comments on the blog post. If you are interested in the battle and also up for a chuckle, go check out the blog post and comments here.

PS: Sorry Mike, we didn’t ask them to go over, stir things up and comment on the blog post. These ladies are very passionate about Minti and obviously took offence at some of the comments :)


Industry News: Maya’s Mom acquired

27

September

In related news to our sector, Maya’s Mom (one of Minti’s closest competitor’s, although not an ‘advice site’ as such) has been acquired by BabyCenter for a reported USD$7M (according to TechCrunch).

BabyCenter plans to leave Maya’s Mom as a stand alone site, however use it’s technology across all the existing BabyCenter websites (ie: BabyCenter Germany etc).

Here is a blog post from the Founder of Maya’s Mom.



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