Archive for the ‘Wall of Shame’ 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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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
What’s it take to make $10 million in 12 months in these wonderful times of mighty Web growth? Apparently not very much.
Not very much work, that is. Today’s New York Times delivers a nice, sprightly memo about a 29-year-old coder based in Vancouver, Canada, who managed to put together a ...
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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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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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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, July 17th, 2007
I noticed a small, but perhaps significant, change in Facebook tonight. Usually when you add more friends to your Facebook account, you need to land on 3 separate pages for each friend: 1) the Requests page; 2) a Request Confirmation/Skip This Step page (I always click 'Skip This Step'), and ...
Posted in Uncategorized, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, confirmation, friend, land, myspace, page, skip, step, tonight, view | No Comments »
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 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 »
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
For those who missed it in “The Sopranos” frenzy (and stop arguing now–it was a good ending), CBS’s “60 Minutes” did a pretty warm and fuzzy profile of media and Internet mogul Barry Diller on Sunday.
He comes off charming and smooth, expertly batting away all suggestions by interviewer Lesley Stahl ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, Wall of Shame, barry, cbs, diller, interviewer, mogul, stahl, suggestions, watch | No Comments »
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Adrants along with shedwa talk about Match's new phallic and sex tainted animated commercials. I'm really sad to see Match drudging the gutter again like the always tacky True. In the first spot, you will see the women picks the man with the massive wanker. In the second spot, ...
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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 »
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
I'm ok at VT" on the Internet social network Facebook has become an online bulletin board for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University students to post their whereabouts and condition after the campus shooting that killed 32 people. Some 236 groups related to Virginia Tech have been set up on ...
Posted in General News, Just Because, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Wall of Shame, Web 2.0, blogs, board, bulletin, facebook, issue, myspace, tech, virginia | No Comments »
