Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Declan McCullagh, who covers poli-tech, writes about True.com on News.com.
Hightlights:
A California bill introduced last week covers any Web site offering “compatibility” or “social referral services”–a sweeping definition that encompasses everything from high-school reunion site Classmates.com to a matchmaking site for a tennis doubles tournament. Under the California proposal, social referral services Friendster.com and Google’s Orkut.com [...]
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Spark Networks has announced the appointment of Martial Chaillet, Founder and Chairman of MediaWin & Partners, to its Board of Directors. Chaillet also joined the board of InfoSearch 3 days ago. InfoSearch Media is a leading provider of content based, cost-effective search engine marketing services, maintaining a network of over 200 professional writers that contribute [...]
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Hannity, a conservative talk show host on Fox News, has launched Hannidate 2005:
So, where do like minded conservative people meet each other? On Hannity.com, naturally! Check out other profiles or submit your own and let the sparks fly! …Welcome to Hannidate 2005, where you may find your perfect match through Hannity style romance.
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You can tell a lot about an company and to some extent an industry by scanning current job openings. Periodically I pull together a short list of job opportunities in the online dating industry from Monster and HotJobs.
Match.com (15 openings)
Lavalife (3 openings)
ChristianCafe (1 opening)
Yahoo! Personals (9 openings)
Spark Networks (3 openings)
MarketRange (PerfectMatch) [...]
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New Media Knowledge had an evening roundtable, an overview of which is here. Interesting stats on MatchMobile American mobile phone usage.
Peter Larsen – CEO, Enpocket:
In his talk on ‘Mobile Communities – The new Blogosphere’ Larsen outlined how mblogging adds mobility and the ability to contribute pictures – posting them to a WAP [...]
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Redpoint Ventures to invest in MySpace: Geoffrey Yang, VC with Redpoint Ventures, said he is days away from investing in MySpace; “these guys in a sense are trying to be an MTV for the Internet.”
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From Yahoo! News:
CGI Holding Corporation has acquired privately-held Personals Plus, Inc., the owner of several online dating and relationship websites. The acquisition is expected to significantly expand CGI’s customer base in the area and to provide synergies between the websites that the combined companies will offer. The Company estimates that Personals Plus will add approximately [...]
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AEwebworks has rolled out the latest version of their dating site in a box. From I can tell, the only thing missing is a weblog profile system.
From the press release: Based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with head in Sydney, Australia AEwebworks is professional software development team specializing solely on dating software. AEwebworks is providing dating software [...]
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What a year for Lycos. Bought by Daum, then Matchmaker was put on the block for $2 Million, which no one seems willing to pay, and now they have decided to become a “personal communications hub.” Next up for Lycos, a dating search engine. Lycos Dating Search enables users can search through multiple dating systems [...]
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