Archive for the ‘Online Dating News’ Category
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
After Google’s stock took a hit based on reports that Google ads are not being clicked on as much as they use to be, comScore is reporting today that the market may have got it wrongthe evidence suggests that the softness in Google’s paid click metrics is primarily a result ...
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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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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 ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Dating Video, Online Dating News, Speed Dating, Web 2.0, atomico, friis, klaus, mangrove, nikas, woome, woome’s, zennstrom | No Comments »
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 »
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Not much action on this blog lately, but for good reason. Me and my partner have been pounding the pavement getting the new project to fruition. We've taken a few concepts into play while developing this new project.
1. One click profile import - people are tired of having to spend ...
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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 »
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Adult dating site AdultFriendFinder, rumored to have been acquired in November for $1 billion is on the wrong side of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with a settlement that restricts AdultFriendFinder’s promotional activities.
The FTC said in a statement that AdultFriendFinder affiliates used pop-up ads to drive traffic to the site, ...
Posted in Adult Dating, Dating 2.0, Online Dating News, Site Info, Spam and Security, Wall of Shame, adult, adultfriendfinder, adultfriendfinder’s, affiliates, commission, exposed, ftc, settlement | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Sex and spontaneity are the two magic ingredients for a new startup called CrazyBlindDate, which launches today in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco after beta testing in Austin, Texas for over a month.
The idea behind CrazyBlindDate is to bring the scheme of blind dating to the web. Sign ...
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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
The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight.
Other “founding partners” of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, ...
Posted in Api's, Beta, Dating 2.0, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, addition, hyves, imeem, ning, officially, opensocial, plaxo, salesforce | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
This Monday, MTV quietly deployed a Hot or Not competitor called NextorNot.
The premise, as with Hot or Not, is simple: users flip through “profiles” of other users (consisting mainly of a portraits) and indicate whether they think the people in the profiles are attractive or not. In NextorNot’s case, you ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Another study about online social networks has discovered the obvious: people with photos are more likely to be contacted by strangers, and girls get more unwarranted attention than guys. Perhaps the next study could address the “hottness” factor?
A survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that ...
Posted in Beta, Finding Love Online, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Research, barrage, contacted, girls, guys, porn, strangers, study, tricking | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
OkCupid.com, a free online dating site, has announced the launch of its quiz application for Facebook. Once completed, the OkCupid Dating Quiz gives you your personality type and allows you to add it to your Facebook profile. Next week, the application will expand to allow users to take any of ...
Posted in Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Site Info, Uncategorized, Widgets, compare, completed, facebook, lifestyle, okcupid, quiz, quizzes, thumbs | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
A funny ad for the Christian Dating. Too bad the link leads to a spam like ad page.
Click on the Photo to see a larger image.
Posted in Just Because, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, christian, click, funny, image, larger, photo | No Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Earlier today I found a great craigslist post about a women who was beautiful and who wanted to meet a rich man (she makes no mention of looks, compatibility, or anything rather then money). Then a mere hour later I got an email from yet another Millionaire Match type of ...
Posted in Online Dating News, Site Info, Site Reviews, Uncategorized, Wall of Shame, beautiful, compatibility, craigslist, earlier, mention, rich, wanted, women | 4 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 ...
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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
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 »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Our seventh annual Best Cities For Singles contains some significant changes. First, because we are using a different U.S. census definition of "city" this year, four cities have been removed from consideration (Charlotte, Greensboro, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham) and have been replaced with four new cities (Jacksonville, Buffalo,Memphis and Baltimore). Second, ...
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