Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
PR Newswire reports that Cingular announced partnerships with major content providers including Match.com. Deja vu, it seems, the original press release was dated February 10 and can be found here.
“MatchMobile’s cross-carrier service provides Cingular customers the ability to connect with other Cingular members as well as members of other carriers providing the service. With [...]
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Macromedia unveiled a new technology/service at DemoMobile late last week. Flash Lite is a new framework for distributing Flash content to next generation phones. Carriers will provide phones on their network with a shell application that is played in the Flash Lite player. This shell application acts as a portal to rich content. The application [...]
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July WIRED has an interview with Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts, one-time Apple flack and founder of 3DO. Trip talks about mobile phone gaming, then let’s us know he is thinking about developing a location-based dating service running on mobile phones. He thinks location based-dating will be huge. We agree.
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From WIRED:
Using a two-way video, audio and text chat interface, expo attendees were invited to control Doc Johnson-branded iVibe pleasure devices being put to use by models at an undisclosed location, in various states of undress.
“The device control works both ways — the person on each end controls the speed and rhythm of [...]
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GooDate purports to be a meta-search engine across a number of popular dating sites. Besides the obvious Google look & feel and american flag, the tabbed interface enables age/religion/adult/local search functionality. Not sure what, if any type of relationship they have with the services they mine, it’s most likely a breach of the sites terms [...]
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I was checking out The Onion today and I came across this interesting points program. This is a pretty cool idea, but I don’t see it on Salon or Boston.com, two other Spring-Street powered sites I visit often. I wonder if they are testing this on a subset of all their properties as a pilot [...]
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The VP of Business Development will be responsible for leading the present and future direction of the Date.com’s business development. Responsibilities include building and managing an online business development team, growing and optimizing our existing online media campaigns, securing new and profitable placements.
Responsibilities
• Oversee the creation and execution of media campaigns that follow the [...]
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Scanning real estate listings is a great way to check up on your competitors.
Interesting points from an article on MSNBC.COM.
Match.com is seeking about 60,000 square feet of space within a roughly four-mile radius of its Richardson headquarters. At the same time, upstart True.com just took over 25,000 square feet at Williams Square in Las [...]
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I got my first invitation to Orkut today. As soon as I filled out the questions I was told that “You are connected to 479096 people through 1 friends.” Who’s working on filtering and reputation management over there? It will be interesting to see how they link dating with friendship networks.
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From the SITRAS conference in Miami. Cheaper than most offline matchmakers, but how many people will make the jump from $24.95 to $495?
Match.com Personal Introduction Service
Specifically designed for clients who know who they are and what they are looking for in a relationship but simply don’t have the time to undertake the search on their [...]
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