Yesterday, when I posted Israeli Social Networking Service—a tip from a Social Software Weblog reader, Ben—I did not notice that Ben's announcement of Netster.co.il stated that it is the FIRST Jewish social networking site.
Another reader—Avi Cohen—quickly pointed out that there are indeed other online Jewish social networking and dating sites and gave Chosennet.com as an example. Avi went on to state that he feels that both Netster.co.il and Chosennet.com "are mere (poor) copies of other SNS sites."
Hmmm, how many original social networking services are there out there?
These readers' tips and comments inspired me to update my Social Networking Services Meta List with a number of the online Jewish Singles sites from my unpublished Master Dating Services List—which contains over one thousand online dating services from around the world.
Here are just thirteen of the Jewish entries that I will be adding to the SNS Meta List soon:
ajewishdatingsite.com*, Dating Jewish Singles*, JewishCafe.com*, JewishFriendfinder*, JewishLoveMatch.com*, Jewish Matchmaker*, Jewish Personals*, JMatch*, SingleJew.com*, SpeedDating Online-Jewish Dating*, Totally Jewish-Dating Channel*, UrbanTraditional.com*, YID - Single Jewish Dating*.









1. To: Judith Meskill
Dear Judith
Thanks for the news. However, you have a mistake. I am the CEO of www.netster.co.il which is the FIRST Jewish/Israeli social networking in the world which is localted in Israel. We have launched our social networking in the end of 2003 and therefore we are anyway the FIRST. In addition,there is a consensus about it in the Israeli media at Haarez daily newspaper, www.wall.co.il, MSN News First Class, Yedioth daily newspaper and others. About AVI comments. He is probably frustrated competitor who wish to make image damage to our FIRST Jewish social networking. We have our own differentiation from other SMS and we are getting a great comments from users who loves our social networking. For example we got a comment from user who wrote '' I invited friends who did not want to hear about dating website before, because this is a new way to make commections through friends and friend of friends '' In addition, we have a unique feature for dating which no other dating site in the world have. Please be king and correct again that we are the FIRST. I would be highly appreciated if you can publish my comments.
Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Ben-Dov