Archive for the ‘Site Info’ Category
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 »
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Social network for night owls MingleNow appears to have been a victim of Yahoo’s recent acquisition of BlueLithium. According to a post on the service’s blog, MingleNow will officially close on January 7th. No official explanation has been made for the closure. We assume that Yahoo simply isn’t interested in ...
Posted in 2006, General News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, bluelithium, closure, deadpool, explanation, isn’t, maintaining, minglenow | 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 ...
Posted in Beta, Dating 2.0, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, algorithm, crazyblinddate, group, narrowed, outright, penalty, scheme, you’re | No Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Hey folks, haven't been blogging a lot this week. I had a good friend of mine pass over the weekend, so needless to say I've been more then a little out of it. I had been moping around, but I found that if I keep busy working It will keep ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, General News, Just Because, Site Info, Web 2.0, blogging, folks, friend, mine, moping, needless, pass, weekend | 1 Comment »
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 »
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, June 30th, 2007
Today Yahoo! Personals introduced a package of new photo features, which not only help users make their profiles more authentic expressions of who they are, but also increase the chances of finding other users with similar interests. New features include:
Expanded photo display of up to ten photos – more photos ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Wall of Shame, ability, captions, features, increase, interests, nbsp, personals, photo, photos, yahoo | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
After months of planning, coding, designing, spending, anxiety, etc etc, I am pleased to announce the release of Collaboradate V1. So what's so special about it? I'm glad you asked :) There's a lot of work to be done, and many bugs to be squashed, but it's good enough ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Dating Video, Development, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, announce, anxiety, coding, designing, planning, pleased, release, spending | No Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006 (we started that one), then the Financial Times reported they were in talks with Viacom a month later.
Recent Comscore traffic data for Bebo, MySpace and ...
Posted in 2006, 550, Site Info, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, bebo, challenge, facebook, july, sale, talks | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Hong and Young decided to rip apart their business model and remove the requirement for members to have premium accounts to talk to each other. A month ago, the requirement was turned off, and about $500k/month in revenue disappeared overnight. The founders also turned the company into a proper “C” ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Online Dating Features, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, founders, hong, hotornot, model, month, requirement, revenue, turned, young | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
The time had come for me to start to solicit partners for the upcoming release of Collaboradate.com
Some of the types of partners we are looking for are:
1. Dating sites: Do you want to include your user names predominately in our search results? More clicks = more page views for you. ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Development, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, Widgets, include, names, partners, predominately, results, solicit, upcoming | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Now IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns popular sites like match.com, ask.com and citysearch.com, has launched a youth-oriented virtual world of its own called Zwinktopia, which lets members customize avatars, play games and explore cartoon-like chat rooms. Unveiled April 30 and aimed at netheads aged 13 to 34, the site is entirely free. ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, chat, citysearch, easy, games, shop, zwinktopia, zwinky | 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 »
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Since when do über hotties need a specialized online dating service? If evolutionary psychology and People magazine teach us anything, it’s this: When it comes to hooking up, the only thing the most attractive of the species need do is walk outside.
Hence the intrinsically flawed business model behind HotEnough.org, a ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, H-N, Online Dating News, Site Info, Site Reviews, Startup, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, club, dating, derek, flawed, hotenough, love, members, model, org, party, periodic, personals, relationships, singles, species | No Comments »
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
We are just days away from launching Collaboradate 1.0 to a limited group of testers. We have really made some great progress of late, and we are full steam ahead. I took a huge chance with Ruby on Rails, and also making a cutting edge site like no other you ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Development, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, Web 2.0, collaboradate, days, group, launching, limited, testers | 6 Comments »
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Hitwise, the ISP information aggregator (aka. stats company), has been acquired by Experian, a global information solutions company, for a reported $240 million.
Hitwise, founded in 1998, has become a staple for comparative website statistical analysis. In an effort to expand their company’s offerings capabilities, Experian is acquiring Hitwise to add ...
Posted in Just Because, Research, Site Info, Web 2.0, acquired, acquiring, clients, experian, experian’s, hitwise, offerings, solutions | No Comments »
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Online dating site eHarmony.com continues to amass scores of data to fuel its online relationship service for 15 million registered users. The company 18 months ago deployed clustered storage systems to handle the photos, images, logs and other content types it has added to the online profiles it stores ...
Posted in 3par, Development, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Web 2.0, arrays, clustered, data, database, eharmony, storage | No Comments »
Monday, April 16th, 2007
The Web site FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man in Ohio. Jerry Miller wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer.
Jerry Miller is not a farmer. He works in advertising and public ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, Startup, dating, farmer, farmers, farmersonly, finder, friendship, jerry, life, miller, pals, pen, understand, voanews | 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 »
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
We've been acquired by Google! WOO HOO! Thanks to everyone for their love and support. More to come later.
After months of secret negotiations Google has acquired Collaboradate.com, including the yet to be released version 1.0.
Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's new director of relationships will head the new division. "We are really excited ...
Posted in General News, Site Info, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
I am glad to present to you a demo of the upcoming release of Collaboradate 1.0's revolutionary ajax search functionality. When you log into Collaboradate 1.0, you will load only 1 initial screen, and all the functionality is Ajax enabled. Quick, efficient, and slick is the name of the game. ...
Posted in Online Dating Features, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Site Info, Startup, Web 2.0, ajax, dating, personals, singles, web2 0 | No Comments »
