Archive for the ‘match’ Category
Friday, July 13th, 2007
While opening my credit card bill today, I noticed that I had been charged a subscription fee by Match.com, an account I had canceled months back. I was pretty frustrated with this, so I called the 800 number to see what was going on. After getting the operator on the ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Wall of Shame, cable, canceled, charged, consumer, interacted, match, permission, subscription, trash, true | No Comments »
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Earlier this week, Jeff Blum was out buying a sandwich when his mind wandered toward his social life. So he got out his cellphone and sent a text message with his work ZIP Code to MeetMoi, a new mobile dating service. Within minutes, his phone received the profile of ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Reviews, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, began, blum, gps, location, match, meetmoi, minutes, mobile, received, worked, years | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Markus at plentyoffish is predicting the decline of the online dating industry as a whole:
"Another year or 2 of social networking growth in the US and companies like Match.com, True.com are in serious trouble, although I don’t think Eharmony will feel much of an impact."
I think that ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Development, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, dating, fish, lavalife, markus, match, plenty, plentyoffish, predicting, singles, socialnetwork, true, yahoo | No Comments »
Monday, April 30th, 2007
A new contextual ad network has been launched by Ask.com which it hopes will offer an alternative to Google's AdSense, ClickZ reports. The system will bolster Ask's search advertising and will initially launch on Match.com, Ticketmaster and other platforms owned by Ask/IAC. Mid-size publishers can sign up for the system ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, ads, ask, competitors, contextual, google, iac, match, offer, products, publishers, supported, system, yahoo | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
IAC/InterActive Corp. on Wednesday said it plans to launch a new community site aimed at African Americans, coinciding with a larger social networking movement away from the mass chaos of MySpace toward better-targeted, smaller communities. The unnamed site won't launch until next January, but it will feature news, entertainment, ...
Posted in General News, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, african, american, ask, fat, iac, launch, man, match, myspace, networking, social, unnamed | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
I've been reading a lot of reinvention declarations lately, most recently from plentyoffish (social network transformation) and HotorNot (going 100% free). Markus says he is going to move into the social networking market. Markus is no dummy, quite the contrary, however this shift is really perplexing to me. If someone ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Site Info, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blog, hotornot, love, match, personals, plentyoffish, singles | No Comments »
