Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
The Matchmaking Institute in New York City is offering their next certification series. They also run Continuing Education Series of Tele-classes beginning in January.
Matchmaking demands the innate ability to gauge the compatibility between people. While I find it fascinating that people believe matchmaking can be taught, something tells me I would rather work with a [...]
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Rich Gosse and Dan Bender have started a website called Podcast Singles Network. Rich interviewed me last week as part of the industry insiders track, we talked about the Meetic IPO, Chemistry.com and the upcoming Internet Dating Confercence.
The site is under construction but you can listen to the podcast.
[tags: podcast]
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Dr. James Houran, the brains behind the True.com Compatability Test, shares his thoughts on the infancy of compatibility testing, Rasch scaling, classical test theory and how new technologies and research are driving applied psychology.
[tags: compatability, psychology]
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The buzz over GoogleBase continues. People Profiles are one of the drop-down category options found in the service when it was publicly available for a brief time this week.
Using the bulk upload function (think of GoogleBase as a giant public database), a free dating site could upload all their profiles, leverage the benefits of Google [...]
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Details are thin, but it sounds like someone is trying to sue online dating companies that ignore 3-day cancellation notices. Over the summer a handful of lawyers contacted me to snap up copies of the Online Dating Industry Report. All within a two week period. Interesting.
Markus was on the LavaLife investor call and says: Acording [...]
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Dominique sent me a copy of his Greasemonkey script that enables Firefox users to easily save their Meetic search settings instead of having to re-enter them each visit to the site. Download the Greasemonkey extention and then install it from here.
I wrote about using Greasemonkey to reconfigure dating sites at the browser level back in [...]
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Initial public offering was oversubscribed more than 12 times by institutional investors.
Story at Reuters chart from Yahoo Finance.
[tags: meetic]
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Happy birthday to me. Here are a few stock charts from various public dating company (via Yahoo Finance). I’ll link them to individual research pages next week and add them to the sidebar.
[tags: finance]
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Brad Greenspan, Intermix Media Inc.’s former chief executive, will pay $750,000 in penalties for his role in the company’s bundling of hidden spyware that delivered pop-up advertising, the New York Attorney General’s office said on Thursday. Intermix affiliate Acez Software has agreed to pay $35,000 in related penalties.
Press Release.
[tags: intermix, myspace]
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Take Google Maps and mix it with a dating site and you have MapMix.Search by location, orientation or relationship type. The site asks for *all* of your contact details and remains light on profile questions. In fact, there are none at all, but it’s still in beta. Success depends on adoption, which is going to [...]
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