Glad to see you're able to quickly turn around the app into something new, even though facebook hasn't given you any reply.

One question: I'll need to spam the site to all my friends before I'd ever start seeing connections right?

If only 1 friend of Kevin Bacon's required 6 degrees is connected to me this might grow virally, but until then it seems I'll need to pass on the link.

Doesn't this already exist? I remember having seen something like this years ago.

Yes, it was/is a standard way to collect a bunch of email addresses to be used for spamming people. (Not that these guys are spammers.)

So how come when I click on the posters of 99% of the negative comments to see their profile, their profile shows that they have posted no other comments anywhere? The profiles of most of the neutral or positive commenters show plenty of other activity.

Sock puppets?

It costs money to select someone? I had no idea people paid for these kinds of things.

1) Man, people who comment on Techcrunch are mean.

2) Good luck with Crush Notifier.

Sounds like the re-invention of one of the features of the old "Hot or Not" site.

This is the same model OkCupid uses to notify two users who've given each other high ratings (4 or 5 stars).

overall I like the idea

i think the word "crush" is bad because it limits it to a sort of juvenile romantic condition. granted, people could still use it to indicate a different kind or degree of interest, from "I think they're hot" to "I'd totally sleep with them", etc. that don't imply the kind of mental obsession or breathless/nervous/manic behavior that are associated with crushes.

minor criticism though. overall, i think it's a neat idea that will resonate with lots of folks.