Grindr's Big Plans to Get Into Everyone's Pockets
The future of Grinding is more than just hookups and flirty texting, its creator told Queerty in an interview this week. These days, Joel Simkhai is looking at expanding his social app in directions that include community, events, matchmaking, and even -- get this -- women. The very idea! "Our goal is to increase the number of people you're meeting. That's what Grindr is for us," Joel explains. For...
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How You Can Join Fabulis' Team Of Hollywood + D.C. Power Players (So Long As You're Under 26)
Why is Fabulis, the newly-minted homo-social planning site, rubbing elbows with The Office, Grey Gardens, a tiny dachshund, and Bill Clinton's White House? And more importantly, how you can you jostle your own elbows into that scene? We've been talking about Fabulis for months -- from its boy-happy music video to its bank woes turned viral goldmine to its delicious Manhunt smack-down. When it launched a casual popularity contest...
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Why Fabulis Iz Heer To Stey: The New Kid on the Gay Social Networking Block
Their name's mispeld, The Awl called them "retrograde," their dancing-gays video missed the mark, and nobody's seen their actual product yet. And judging from the results of a sneaky trick that we pulled during its beta launch, Fabulis.com is going to be a hit. Fabulis made a name for itself a month ago, when Citibank inadvertently did them the favor of shutting down their business account in a move...
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