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Re:Post mortem: Thanks and lessons learned by kennywinker on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:16AM (#7143045)
Their website is still up http://pingjam.com if you want to see what it was.
Re:Post mortem: Thanks and lessons learned by byoogle on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:32AM (#7143087)
The site doesn't seem to say a thing about what they actually did to make money (the AngelList description does, though).
Re:Post mortem: Thanks and lessons learned by girvo on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @06:33AM (#7143236)
It does if you dig deeper in the website. Looks like pulling info from caller ID and using that for monetisation... which is icky, as far as I'm concerned.