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		<title>Plentyoffish: Google CTR Down 60%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of Google’s own quality initiatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;killer&#8221; mobile dating app</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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 compared with millions of other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Dating Is Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT?!!? Yes, you heard me&#8230; it&#8217;s dead! The &#8220;traditional&#8221; online dating site is dead, especially paid sites (Sam I look forward to hear how I am crazy :D). 
I&#8217;m calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year for paid online dating. More and more users are starting to use Facebook and Myspace as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give a little, take a little</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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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 there has also been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSocial is late to the party</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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Google product manager Amar Gandhi announced in a blog post on Tuesday night that there have been &#8220;a couple of modifications&#8221; to the company&#8217;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 Orkut platform, which it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumating impotent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tag based dating site for geeks Consumating is to shut March 15, according to a notice posted to the Consumating forums.
Consumating was acquired by CNet in December 2005 and was later relaunched in June 2006. The sites traffic remained strong in 2006 then fell away in 2007 according to Alexa (the site was too small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HotorNot Sells for Millions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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Congrats to James and Jim! This couldn&#8217;t have happened to a nicer guy. The integration with facebook, is what put HotorNot over the edge into something viable. It&#8217;s gonna be interesting to see what happens to the site under new ownership&#8230;
[via]
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		<title>Woome Woos cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 of Oliver Jung to aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our new dating site has 360 Million users</title>
		<link>http://www.collaboradate.com/blog/index.php/our-new-dating-site-has-360-million-users.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only approximately 120 million valid OpenID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goliath will fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 dating website, dubbed Plenty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession is good for free dating</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now before you start scratching your head on this one let me explain.
A recession is coming, and it&#8217;s is not question of if, only when.
So why is this a good thing? Well it won&#8217;t be a good thing for some
people, but it will be a good thing for the FREE online dating business.
When the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting times ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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&#8217;ve taken a few concepts into play while developing this new project.
1. One click profile import - people are tired of having to spend time filling in the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Match puts on a new face</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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. From the looks of it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adult friend finder in trouble for what pops up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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, and exposed consumers, including children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bubble bursts, and whys it&#8217;s a good thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 maintaining another social network, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online dating gets a documentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent MSN dating survey reported that more than 40 million Americans have dated online — a staggering 40 percent of the country&#8217;s 100 million single adults according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Unsurprisingly, online dating safety has been a growing concern as more and more Americans log on and hook up.
But at least one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singles get struck by Craigslist&#8217;s arrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my editor suggested that someone put an ad on Craigslist and find out why people use online dating services to meet people, I was more than eager. Meeting new people has always fascinated me, and it seemed like it might be interesting to use a new forum to make connections. I have to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed up with online dating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace now in the digital dating mix, there are plenty of new chances to meet the right &#8212; and wrong &#8212; people online.
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Grayson Currin, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, who describes himself as a &#8220;big, burly guy,&#8221; posted his band&#8217;s photograph on his MySpace account and started getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will WooMe Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 to be the new big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CrazyBlindDate copies Collaboradate &#8220;Group Date&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 up, answer some personal questions [...]]]></description>
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