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Devil in the Blue Dress

Handbag maker, gossip-column fodder and former presidential intern Monica Lewinsky has a new gig: host of a dating game on Fox called “Mr. Personality.” “Mr. Personality,” which debuts April 21, will feature a stockbroker named Hayley and 20...

Match.com mixed messages

Last week I resigned from a handful of dating services, partially for a few weeks of mental health, but also to find out how the sevices were dealing with customer churn. Sure enough, Match.com just sent me an e-tip, 3 months for the price of one. However, when I went...

Get a Room!

USA Interactive (USAI), the owner of 500-lb gorilla Match.com, is buying all remaining shares of hotel.com in an all-stock transaction worth a reported $1.1 billion. Now you can find a date on Match.com, buy tickets to an event through Ticketmaster and book a hotel...

Meatmarket.com

A Salon.com article about marketing yourself online via cultural references. “Indeed, each personal ad patches together an increasingly eclectic and romantic mélange of brands to create a signature brand: “The Anarchist Cookbook,”...