Career
In December 2001, while working from home as a corporate/technical writer, Nissim began posting to Craigslist with the aim of finding lunch companions. After months of informal lunches and craigslist postings, a community network of hundreds of people formed. In mid-2002, when Nissim formalized the club as an organization and established a website, he dropped "East Village" and left the name as "".
In November 2004, Nissim launched a second social networking endeavor: Meet The Neighbors, a social network for people to connect with those in their own apartment building.
In March 2005 Nissim established an additional event format called After attending a speed dating event in 2003, Nissim adopted the format but changed the concept to fit in with "s mission to help people make friends. The service launched in New York in March 2005 and expanded to Boston and San Francisco the following year.
In 2006 the term was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
