Archive for the ‘Dating Industry’ Category
Friday, February 29th, 2008
WHAT?!!? Yes, you heard me... it's dead! The "traditional" online dating site is dead, especially paid sites (Sam I look forward to hear how I am crazy :D). I'm calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year for paid online dating. More and more users are starting to ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Who owns your friends (or rather the list of who your friends are and how they are connected to you) has been a big source of debate in the social networking world. Control over that data is what makes social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn so potentially valuable. Yet ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Congrats to James and Jim! This couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. The integration with facebook, is what put HotorNot over the edge into something viable. It's gonna be interesting to see what happens to the site under new ownership...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
WooMe’s online network that can be used for virtual introductions ranging from speed dating to job interviews has just announced a $3 million bridge round, led by Mangrove and previous investors Atomico (which was founded by Nikas Zennstrom and Janus Friis), and Klaus Hommels. WooMe has also added the help ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
What’s it take to make $10 million in 12 months in these wonderful times of mighty Web growth? Apparently not very much.
Not very much work, that is. Today’s New York Times delivers a nice, sprightly memo about a 29-year-old coder based in Vancouver, Canada, who managed to put together a ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Now before you start scratching your head on this one let me explain.
A recession is coming, and it's is not question of if, only when.
So why is this a good thing? Well it won't be a good thing for some
people, but it will be a good thing for the FREE ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Online Dating News, Web 2.0, economy, give, pof, recession, scratching, slows, views, weak | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Two new features from Match.com are aimed at getting new users to sign up for the service. One is targeted at the shy crowd, and one is targeted at the outgoing crowd–Facebook.
The Little Black Book feature lets Match.com users find other Facebook members that also have an account on Match.com. ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, black, book, crowd, crowd–facebook, facebook, fitting, shy, targeted | No Comments »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
A recent MSN dating survey reported that more than 40 million Americans have dated online — a staggering 40 percent of the country's 100 million single adults according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Unsurprisingly, online dating safety has been a growing concern as more and more Americans log on and ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Dating Video, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, americans, documentarian, dvd, exposing, isenberg, nick, pitfalls, unsurprisingly | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
When my editor suggested that someone put an ad on Craigslist and find out why people use online dating services to meet people, I was more than eager. Meeting new people has always fascinated me, and it seemed like it might be interesting to use a new forum to make ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
With social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace now in the digital dating mix, there are plenty of new chances to meet the right -- and wrong -- people online.
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Grayson Currin, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, who describes himself as a "big, burly guy," posted his band's photograph on his ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Social Networking, currin, fed, felt, grayson, kelton, messages, networking, unnatural | No Comments »
Monday, November 5th, 2007
InterActiveCorp (IAC), parent company of Ask.com, Bloglines, Evite, and dozens of other popular Web sites, has decided to split itself into five separate, publicly traded companies. The hotter of IAC’s properties (it’s so-called “media & advertising” and “emerging businesses” groups) will remain under the IAC brand, while slower growth units ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Some big things to announce.
Collaboradate.com is going away :( But wait! Not to worry, just the name is going away. I'm excited to announce that I've brought in a partner, and this was the first order of business.
We are not set on the new name yet, but over the past ...
Posted in Api's, Beta, Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Development, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, announce, brought, excited, order, partner, past, wait, worry | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
I thought it would be interesting to go back and give myself a report card on my predictions for the online dating market in 2007. Though the year isn't over, we are winding down as we get towards Halloween and Thanks Giving. See my comments in bold below.
2007 will bring ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Site Reviews, Uncategorized, golden, weakness | 7 Comments »
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Google’s goal - to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%.
The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start ...
Posted in Api's, Dating Industry, Development, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized, google, google’s, igoogle, leverage, november, orkut, party | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
After being overrun with spam and fake profiles, Hot Or Not has decided to reverse course and end their free dating experiment. According to an email from founders Jim and James:
“…You also warned us that this would probably lead to more spammers and fake profiles. You ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, disagree, fix, isn’t, okcupid, questionnaire, stands, wanna, wtf | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Older woman seduces younger man. Sound familiar? It's a scene from the new classic "Wedding Crashers."
Actress Demi Moore is 15 years older than her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher. But high-profile Hollywood couples like Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (12 years her junior) -- who met and began dating while filming ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Uncategorized, men, older, romance, susan, winter, woman, younger | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
According to some recent snooping around by Juniper Research, mobile dating services will bring in a hefty $1 billion from the lovelorn by 2010. This year 40 million people are expected to use mobile dating services such as chat rooms for singles. That number will surge to 260 million by ...
Posted in 2010, 2012, Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, hefty, iphone, japan, juniper, loneliest, lonely, mobile | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
If you rocked out to Bruce Springsteen, perfected your runway walk to that of Twiggy's, and spent hours playing with Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Ouija Boards, then you are probably a Baby Boomer. Thirty percent of the 85 million Boomers in the US and Canada (those born between 1946 -1964) are ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Read the Collaboradate blog on your iphone. You can now get your online dating news on the go! Just point your iphone browser to the normal address of http://www.collaboradate.com/blog/ and the display will automatically be formated to your iphone. If you don't have one yet, you may want to consider ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Enter UK based First Move, which just emailed us. It’s a dating site where you create a private profile. You then buy black or hot pink credit-card type cards that have your First Move user code on them - they cost about $2 each. When you see someone you want ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Mobile Dating, Online Dating News, Startup, aka, aki, card, cards, hand, persue, plastic, shove | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Just as it has done to companies in the software, publishing, and advertising industries, Google is becoming a thorn in the side of venture capitalists. The owner of the world's largest Web search engine is scooping up young tech outfits for a relative pittance, giving itself first dibs on hot-growth ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Funding, Startup, anonymity, bang, boxing, funds, google, killing, offerings, scooping | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Hundreds, probably thousands, of players can attest that they met their partners or spouses in the worlds of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI and EverQuest. A few more have darker tales to tell of romances that led to obsession or that were founded in deceit or infidelity. They do, of course, ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Software, Uncategorized, Virtual Worlds, aspects, fantasy, infidelity, romances, spouses, suitors, tales, warcraft | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
CAMBRIDGE - Success came early to Sam Yagan. So did failure. By the time he was 22, the son of Syrian immigrants was living the American dream, Internet version. Early in 1999, in the spring of his senior year at Harvard, he and two classmates launched an online study guide ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, early, graduates, negotiated, okcupid, sam, sparknotes, sweat, yagan | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
The media mogul has built up Web conglomerate IAC through a series of acquisitions. IAC's numerous Internet properties include search engine Ask.com, financial services Web site LendingTree and ticket agency Ticketmaster.
But despite this diversity, IAC (Charts) has been the worst performing major media stock this year. ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
Users of Hot or Not (hotornot.com), introduced seven years ago, look at pictures of people and vote on how attractive they are. It was, Mr. Hong told the group, “a joke of an idea.” But when people thronged to the site, he realized he had a business. And it has ...
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