My Aquarium Gets Acquired by SpeedDate

SpeedDate is quietly vacuuming up Facebook Applications.  This evening I received the following e-mail from a soon to be defunct My Aquarium application:

We have decided to focus on something more exciting. My Aquarium’s name and functionality will be changed next week to SpeedDate, a fun way to meet new people. Data entered into the original app won’t be used anymore. Feel free to check it out.

Thanks,
My Aquarium

These messages usually go unnoticed except My Aquarium was one of the first apps from the Toronto region to become a big hit and generate a modest income.  The creator, Greg Thomson, hails from nearby London, Ontario and presented at FacebookCamp1 and FacebookCamp2 Toronto.

It might be a sign of the times.  My Aquarium after pushing several hundred thousand monthly active users was only generating around 55,000 monthly active users, undoubtedly affected by the tabbed profile redesign which relegated application profile boxes to Application tabs.

This is by no means SpeedDate’s first acquisition.  In addition to My Aquarium, SpeedDate now operates the Hotness, Send Hotness and SocialMoth Secrets apps to name a few.  It’s unknown whether other apps developed by Greg were part of the acquisition.  Greg created the My Garden, My Solar System, My Grave Yard and My Greeting Cards applications as well as a number of other apps in addition to My Aquarium.

*Update*: A developer whose app was acquired by SpeedDate just gave us a tip that SpeedDate has an intern dedicated solely to e-mailing developers with acquisition offers.  If you’re looking to sell your application, you might want to ping SpeedDate or send us an e-mail and we can forward you some relevant contact information.