Archive for the ‘plentyoffish’ Category

James and Markus tell us how they did it

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Recently I was able to watch, and then meet both Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyOfFish.com and James Hong of Hot or Not after a dinner conference in Santa Clara at the Churchhill Club. I had to pay to see it, but you can watch it here... for the cost ...

Dating sites and singles will never go away.

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 ...

The Reinvention Craze

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 ...

What ever happened to Webdate?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

So what's happened to Webdate? I made a visit recently and was amazed to see how horrible it looked. Seems like whomever is in charge over there decided to turn in into a SEO spam / link farm. It's really sad to see a site that at one time had ...