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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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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
An interesting patent has surfaced today indicating that Microsoft might be planning to enter the mobile dating industry. The patent, entitled Image-Based Face Search details how Microsoft could be developing complex facial recognition software. The patent explains how a photo could be uploaded from a mobile phone or PC and ...
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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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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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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Google product manager Amar Gandhi announced in a blog post on Tuesday night that there have been "a couple of modifications" to the company's release of OpenSocial compatibility for its Orkut social network. In other words, there appears to be some red tape. Instead of immediately rolling out the ...
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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, November 15th, 2007
WooMe puts users in quick, 1-on-1 video conferencing sessions during which they can determine whether to pursue a relationship (romantic or otherwise) with the stranger on the other end. While the site is not explicitly marketed as a dating site, it competes quite directly with SpeedDate
The online speed date seems ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Video, Speed Dating, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, competes, conferencing, explicitly, marketed, romantic, sessions, speeddate, woome | 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 ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, advertising”, businesses”, hotter, iac, separate, slower, units, “emerging | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Today I tired to login to my Google adsense account. Upon logging in, it said that my application had been "disapproved". Now I have been using this account for years, so I don't get the application part.
The account had been acting strangely as of late (missing channels, lower then normal ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
It's been said darn near a zillion times that 9/11 changed everything. But one thing the tragedy didn't change was Marcia Fish's dtermination to keep her romance with a co-worker strictly on the down line.
The towers fell dour months after Marica, a direct-mail marketing coordinator at a major manhattan-based department ...
Posted in Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Uncategorized, eat, keeping, lived, manhattan, marcia, mike, poop, workers | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Disaboom, an online portal for people living with disabilities, has acquired Lovebyrd.com, a dating service targeting the same demographic. The site will be re-branded under Disaboom, which is actually a publicly traded company (DSBO.OB). Disaboom combines both information and community for the estimated 54 million Americans living with disabilities, so ...
Posted in Uncategorized, acquired, branded, disabilities, disaboom, dsbo, living, lovebyrd, publicly | 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 »
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 »
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 »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Meet Michael Stajer. By all accounts, Stajer has it all: He's attractive, single and owns a multimillion-dollar company in San Francisco. Sure, Stajer has no problem landing a first date, but subsequent dates and a relationship are more difficult to navigate. So what's the problem? Simply put: He owns a ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Tips, Uncategorized, difficult, dollar, landing, multimillion, owns, relate, stajer, subsequent | 1 Comment »
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
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 10th, 2007
I've added a directory to the blog to help me keep track of the 100's (1000's if you count the ones that are thrown up in a day or two) of dating sites on the net. When you get a chance please stop by and add your link if you ...
Posted in Uncategorized, blogs, directory, link, links, operator, owner, reci, require | 5 Comments »
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 27th, 2007
It's time to get personal(s)! Once in a while you will see me put some semi personal thoughts on this blog, and it's time again.
Collaboradate has come a long way, no one ever said it was going to be easy, and it continues to be a challenge. Though I am ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Development, Just Because, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Widgets, challenge, continues, frustratd, personal, proud, put, semi, thoughts | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Brad Fitzpatrick, of LiveJournal, who recently left Six Apart for Google has published notes on what he's going to be working on. There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional application which either require the "social graph" or that could provide better value to users ...
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