[cuponthefloor]

Thanks for the feedback. We completely understand your concerns and thats why we bring up the privacy point in the video. The point you miss is that we dont want to connect you to the people you know. Why? because you already know these people. We want to connect you to new and interesting people that like to talk anbout the same things you do. Hence "email, IRC, lists, usenet, forums, IM etc." aren't sufficient. Mainly because they focus on people that you know and also because (when talking to people you dont know) you arent having a conversation you are reading posts. We are not out to steal your data (says the faceless founder).We analyse the conversations so we can build a profile about the content you enjoy and what you like to talk about. We then use this data to provide you with new content and connect you to people you would like to chat to. None of you chat logs are saved and all of the data we pull from the conversations is anonymised against your account name. We do offer data back to the content provider but this is done by demographics and is never pinned to specific users.

[Paul_S]

Well handled, you sound like a nice company. Good luck.

You're still an online advertiser, and god knows we've got enough of these.

[cuponthefloor]

Thanks for the support. Much apriciated! On your point, we actually dont do any advertising. Our data can help influence advertising so it becomes more relevant to the user. Rather than just spam adds. But we dont actually supply advertisements.