With 850K Users In 2 Months, Circle Of Moms Comes Out Of Nowhere

[qhoxie]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/with-850k-users-in-2-months-circle-of-moms-comes-out-of-nowhere/

[pg]

I don't think I've ever heard of such growth. What new monster of virality did they cook up?

[colortone → pg]

In my experience, the mom blogs are probably the most active (and interesting) part of the blogosphere.

I think this whole gender is wildly underserved, but especially mothers with kids 18 and under...there's huge money to be made building services/communites around these specific needs. BlogHer, etc, is good but just the tip of the iceberg.

http://broadstuff.com/archives/1330-En-gendering-the-next-gr...

Another similar demo is teachers. Trying to "reinvent education" is great but the the meantime millions of teachers and millions more students are underserved and struggling.

[fallentimes → pg]

Facebook apps. But I doubt they'll be as effective with facebook's relatively new layout.

The TC commenters (yeah, I know) are calling bullshit on the growth numbers.

[pg → fallentimes]

Oh, is it 850k FB app users? I thought they meant actual users of their site.

[fallentimes → pg]

Should have clarified: according to them it's actual site users, but their FB apps are what drove the growth.

I can't believe I'm writing this, but I tend to agree with the sentiment reflected in the TC comments: something isn't right.

How can a site with so many users be dead everywhere else?

http://www.quarkbase.com/show/circleofmoms.com