Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
I’m off to the International Internet Dating Convention for the weekend. Looking forward to seeing Evan Marc Katz deliver the keynote Friday night and the party afterwards. Email me if you’re attending and let’s connect.
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EHarmony.com Inc. this month received U.S. Patent No. 6,735,568, which describes a “method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship.” Can the elusive art of matchmaking be reduced to equations and databases?
“EHarmony, which costs $50 per month or $250 per year, doesn’t guarantee a diamond ring – or even [...]
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More info on Match.com founder Gary Kremen in WIRED.
In 1994, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers offered to invest in the online classifieds business that Match.com was part of, but the VCs wanted to merge it with Architext, which would become Excite.com. Kremen said no, because he wouldn’t be made CEO of the new company. Instead, [...]
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Note: We’re not going to run every anti-(insert dating service name) page we come across but this one caught our attention.
Great Expectations (GE) claims to be the nation’s premiere dating service. This page will tell you the truth about how GE operates, how it treats its customers, how much it charges, and how little it [...]
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The survey was conducted during June 2003 by Knowledge Networks, using its web-enabled consumer research panel, a randomly recruited and nationally representative sample of the U.S. population.
• Full report (182 pages)
• Executive Summary (16 pages)
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Recognizing that almost 39 million American singles did not vote in the 2000 presidential election*, Match.com, the global leader in online dating offering the industry’s most advanced and comprehensive science-based matching technologies, is launching a voter awareness and registration drive designed to mobilize the nation’s singles, both men and women of all political affiliations.
Match.com’s voter [...]
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Beliefnet.com, the leading multifaith, spirituality and religion web site, announced today that it will be launching Soulmatch, a values-oriented, spiritually-attuned online dating service. Today, Beliefnet unveiled a beta version of the service and invited users to pre-register and create user profiles.
“The questionnaire tries to display each person’s core values — whether they spring from a [...]
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Fox News story about the role of cell phones in dating, which is much more popular in the UK and Japan than the US, although that will change as more services become available which aren’t tied to any one particular service.
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Match.com, launched Match Mobile last year, which allows singles to view profiles and photos of other [...]
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According to this article in the San Diego Union Tribune, Gary Kremen, the 40-year-old bachelor who founded Match.com is living large near San Diego. He has weaned himself off drugs, began an exercise regimen and found a steady girlfriend.
Since he founded the popular dating site in 1993 with $2 million in venture capital, Kremen has [...]
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AmericanSingles.com, one of the largest online communities for singles, launched today a unique, interactive technology that helps individual members determine if a mutual attraction exists with another member.
The patented technology, called Click!(TM), takes much of the guess work out of online dating, by providing added confidence to initiate contact with other singles. While viewing profiles [...]
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