Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
In August, more than 16 percent of those active on the top five dating sites, including Yahoo Personals and Match.com, were 55 and over, and more than 5 percent were 65 and over, according to Nielsen/NetRatings Inc. That’s up from 15 percent in the 55-plus category and 4.8 percent in the over-65 group a year [...]
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I spent some of the $75 on music in iTunes. While listening to my purchases I decided to research Matchmaker a bit to shed some light on the events which led to their recent acquisition.
1996- Jon Boede — who wrote the original Matchmaker BBS software — developed Matchmaker.com. Previously, the Matchmaker system existed as a [...]
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Today I was invited to participate in a MatchMaker focus group. When I was initially asked, I mentioned this blog, and my day job running ProfileDoctor.com right up front, to make sure they were ok with that, which they were. I figured that I would provide them with useful feedback while I learn more about [...]
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Userplane, a pioneer in providing enterprise social software for online communities, today announced that AOSpine.org, a global community of spine specialists, has deployed its Userplane Web Chatââ€Â¢ – a new multi-user Web text chat room system. AOSpine.org’s online community focuses on improving the quality of medical service provided to spine patients through education, research, documentation [...]
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Back in May we mentionedthe beta ofSoulmatch. Beliefnet, Inc., the leading multifaith spirituality media company and online community, has announced the launch of Soulmatch, a values-based, spiritually-centered online dating service. Soulmatch allows users to decide whether to search by broad values and spiritual criteria or do faith-by-faith matching. Keep an eye out for Beliefnet, they [...]
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Incode Corporation today announced its plans today to acquire VanityDate, a special interest online dating service devoted to match-making for exceptionally successful and attractive singles. We covered this recently. Incode expects to close the acquisition of VanityDate in line with the completion of Incode’s proposed acquisition by BIB Holdings, Ltd. (“BIB”)(OTC Bulletin Board: BIBO). Here’s [...]
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Kurt tells us that:
“A bill is up in Michigan this week in committee to require dating services to require criminal background checks of the people using the service. I am a multi client lobbyist in lansing Michigan who works with the legislature daily. If you know of one of the companies interested in this [...]
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Care Concepts I, Inc. (AMEX:IBD) announced today that it has rescinded the closing of its acquisition of Media Billing Company, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary Internet Billing Company LLC (“iBill”) that was purchased from Penthouse International, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PHSL) in August 2004. We mentioned the original deal righthere last month. On September 20, 2004, [...]
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Hairmax International Corp.’s (OTCBB:HRMX) management is pleased to announce the development and projected launch of DATEMAX USA.COM. “Find The Date Of Your Dreams” is a state of the art dating portal with many features including mysql databases and live video, instant messaging, multiple image uploading, and more. DATEMAX USA, COM Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary, [...]
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Upgraded to Movable Type 3.11, simple, quick and tons of new features. Everything looks ok except for the fact that our guest blogger has yet to materialize. We’ll have someone in place shortly.
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