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Social Networking - Thursday, August 24, 2006

Spark/eDonkey Founders Back At It With OK Cupid

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Chris Coyne, Max Krohn, Sam Yagan and Christian Rudder are a quartet of highly educated young guns who previously worked together to found both SparkNotes and TheSpark. Barnes and Noble bought both sites and shut TheSpark down in June of 2004. Yagan gained a degree of infamy for his stint as CEO of eDonkey - a file sharing service that was shut down by law suits.

The four Spark alums have re-grouped and formed free online dating site OKCupid. The ad-driven site is notable because unlike Match.com, eHarmony and others it is free. Also, the company took a page from TheSpark which had a personality measurement service and offers that on OkCupid. The business is boot-strapped and traffic is thriving.

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OKCupid Provides Personality Measurement Tools

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