According to Iminlikewithyou's Charles Forman, who's working on porting his startup's copycat games to the iPhone, there's not much in common between the platforms besides the word "app."

A Facebook app is easy. It's a Web app. The hard part is all the viral "mutherfuckery" that they do. iPhone is like writing a program. Theres a big upfront learning curve. It's a totally different ballgame. A shit developer can make some Web app. But you have to be a good developer to make an iPhone app.

Forman couldn't deliver a cogent explanation of the differences — something to do with the "real-time" nature of iPhone apps. So we asked our favorite developer with a heart of gold and a tongue of acid, former Uncov blogger and Pressflip cofounder Ted Dziuba, to elaborate. The best he could do, below.

• You're going to have to figure out how to store data without MySQL. Years of PHP development has warped your mind to think that everything must be object relational. There's no 12-step program yet, Apple will release it with the next firmware update.
• We know you like to live a life free of authority and rules, but there's one rule you're going to have to follow: Objective C syntax, and the compiler will taser your ass if you get out of line.
• Information wants to be free, right? Well, not Apple's. Especially the developer documentation: that will cost you $99. But you already own more than $8,000 worth of Apple equipment, what's another few bucks? Anyway, since I'm not forking over $100 to look at documentation, that's really as far as I can go.

Note to Forman: 111 Minna, which he says is a celebrichaun hangout, is actually in San Francisco's Financial District, just south of Market Street — not in the Mission. But thanks for the Valleywag shoutouts, Chuck!

Allison's quest for a geek boyfriend paid off in two regards. Nonsociety's design is strongly reminiscent of Iminlikewithyou, the casual-games site run by her current beau, Charles Forman, and the teaser video is hosted at Vimeo, the online-video site founded by Jakob Lodwick, Allison's ex. Too bad she didn't hook up with a boy more experienced at handling back ends.

If his casual-games venture goes well, he'll have more free time to spend squiring Allison around Manhattan. (She even sometimes gets Forman's name right when introducing him to strangers.) And every moment Allison's out and about is a moment when she's not online obsessing about Rose. Less drama, more money? Rose had better hope Forman's startup takes off.

(Photos by b_d_solis)

What would have happened had Rachel Marsden was left with more than just a few articles of clothing after those steamy days with Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales? Nothing good.

I have to admit, out of all the babies, Marissa Mayer and Zach Bogue's faux-offspring is the least horrifically ugly.

"IT Girl" Julia Allison is ostensibly dating I'm In Like With You founder Charles Forman. But with that lack of resemblance, could Allison be covering for another lover?

Because Forman and Tumblr founder David Karp are very, very close. Looks like Allison is just the beard and Karp is the Forman baby's daddy.

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You probably aren't working on something as cool as this. You probably don't make as much as I can pay you. You probably don't have a boss this good looking. We offer a great benefits package including bigotry and racism. Oh yeah - you have to live in New York City or move here or convince us to move into your apartment.

"Howard twitters about bathrooms, I twitter about bars and my buddies twitter about drinking coffee," venture capital associate Kristian Hansen explains in a blog post ostensibly written to analyze Twitter's business prospects. (The Howard in question is Wallstrip founder Howard Lindzon, who runs a VC firm on the side.) "I am not sure what else you could really do with this service," Hansen concludes. Sure you are, Kristian. Trash Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman, of course!

Headlined "Fenton High computer whiz bringing school life online," it's about Forman's plans to "help users connect directly to areas they're interested in, similar to the format used by America Online." Just like iminlikewithyou!

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"Dumping them is a pain in the ass," Forman told me by IM. "I would if i had the time, but I don't."

Here's four reasons why he'd switch if he "had the time."

1. Their uptime used to be good. But now it's normal.
   
2. Their support used to be good but again, everyone offers the same shit now.
   
3. They've turned lazy and they are basically like — 'yeah — we forgot to do this shit — it will be 3 more days."
   
4. During that outage in their datacenter I didn't get one fucking phone call. I got a fucking mass mail apology and thats it. Their shit was down for like a full day and restarted like 3 times. We probably aren't a major account, but its $8k/month. It's a lot of money to me.

• Facebook is slower than a bunch of social networks you've never heard of, according to Watchmouse. Yes, Zuck's baby is slower than RateItAll, Infield Parking, Buzznet and most especially, Consumating. Which is of course everyone's favorite. MySpace is not on the list.
• The Pew Internet & American Life project discovered that Web video was more popular in 2007 than in 2006.
• Robert Scoble appeared on television. Twice.
• Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman told an audience of 450 that, despite what you've heard, he's not actually an asshole.
• Jupitermedia CEO Alan Meckler posted seven times. 6-word version: Things are great. Ignore stock price.
• Jason Calacanis has 11,900 friends on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. And 495 on Mahalo. By the way, he wants to have dinner with all of you.
• Yahoo's CEO unveiled a new mobile Web platform at CES that will save the company. Just like it did last year.
• And, most notably, the Flight of the Conchords performed at CES:

Compete.com says Iminlikewithyou, Forman's online dating site, has grown 58 percent in the last month. But that's only up to 21,000 or so "people," so big deal.

Even if growth keeps up at that rate, marketing expert Seth Godin — who otherwise raves about Forman's site — will tell you, "There's no way, none, that tradtional online ad models will generate revenue for sites like this."

No revenue? No problem! Forman just wants to own the market, he says: "You look at games on the internet in the U.S., and they are all shit. I will own the casual gaming space in the U.S. within the next year."

Keep in mind, this is the guy whose business card reads, "So ... chances are, you were in like with me. And ... chances are, I gave you this card because I didn't feel like talking to you anymore. Just kidding! LOLZ!"

Megan ... If you need filler stories while you eagerly await jumping the valleywag ship, (Note: Do I need filler stories? Yes. Yes, I do) here's an email I just got from Chuck Forman, founder of iminlikewithyou (the guy with the postcard sized business card).

—-—-—-- Forwarded message —-—-—-- From: Charles Forman Date: Nov 30, 2007 8:57 PM Subject: TEST MY GAME, WIN A FREE BROKEN IPOD To:

Hi Everyone!

After the success of eating at subway today, we are working on a new game. Imagine like a first person shooter + tic/tac/toe + eating babies.

I'll need testers. And that could mean you would be in the drivers seat of one (1) genuine iminlikewithyou color video game experience extravaganza.

It will change the way you think about the internet.

OFFICIAL BOX ART:
http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/blocklesboxart.jpg

If you would like to test, let me know.

-c

—

Charles Forman
*not a candian*
iminlikewithyou // founder

His business plan is taken straight from VH1: I Love the '90s provides him with Pop-Up Video, whileI Love the '80s leads to Tetris clone Blockles. We await the Iminlikewithyou version of Pong when Forman finishes watching I Love the '70s.

Turns out Forman fired Albritton, though Albritton characterized his departure as voluntary. But despite the disagreement, when I reached out to Albritton, I didn't get much out of him. The only real shot he took at Forman was a softie:

I'm not going to slag on [Charles] because there is no reason to do it. I'll let him do the damage to his own reputation.

iminlikewithyou started from a simple, playful idea I had 3 years prior to starting the company, while I was living in Korea. The beginning of the company itself was, in some sense, an accident. I went alongside Dan Albritton to help him pitch his mobile business idea to Y Combinator as a favor to Dan. Within minutes of presenting, Paul Graham at Y Combinator told us that Dan's idea wouldn't work and that they weren't interested. They were, however, interested in us, as people. Paul asked if we had any other ideas.

I said, "How about a dating website?"
He said, "Whats the spin?"
I said, "Auction dating."
He said, "Great. Do you guys want to work on that?"
Dan looked unhappy and said, "I guess so."

Could there be a better way to start a company? Probably.

I pressed Forman a bit and he said he specifically asked Albritton to go because he needed a "doer," not a "thinker."

For his part, Albritton described the Forman version of Iminlikewithyou's creation as "completely accurate." He maintains, however, that his departure had more to do with the fact that his "interest in a dating site was finite.... There was a piece I was really interested in. We built that piece and it was cool. Now, I've actually found something I'm more interested in."

And what's that? He didn't elaborate, but there's a set of photos on Flickr called "Dan Albritton's Secret Project." Check them out — and let me know if you no more.

Here it is. Forman told me he made it to parody some of the custom business cards he'd been seeing around Manhattan. Fine, but truth in jest, right? Click to see it in its full glory.