Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
A while back I wrote about Yahoo Personals hiring developers to RSS-ify profiles for use in co-branded partnerships and white-label solutions. Since then, the only dating sites I’ve seen that offer RSS feeds is Othersingles and Consumating.
Read/WriteWeb says:
Yahoo and Microsoft are busy building out an ‘RSS Everywhere’ strategy. Watching Google and RSS is like watching [...]
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Xooglers are people who used to work at Google. A blog was started, people started posting, and you’re in for a treat. Very well written, great stories about first days at work, the culture and the food and living habits and lifestyles of Googlers.
[tags: xooglers]
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HandwritingProfiles has extended their services to include an online Handwriting Personality & Compatability Profile feature.
You may remember HandwritingProfiles CEO Michael Kahlowsky doing handwriting analysis at SITRAS in Miami last year. I took an adult ed class on handwriting analysis once, fascinating stuff. My prediction for compatibility assessment.
2005: Personality testing
2008: Handwriting analysis
2012: Biochemical analysis
2050: Aura [...]
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From BoingBoing: Psychiatrists from Pavia University have associated early romantic love with a biochemical known as nerve growth factor (NGF).
Apparently, levels of NGF in the bloodstream were significantly higher in subjects who were in the early stages of romance than individuals not in a relationship. Interestingly, “subjects in love who—after 12–24 months—maintained the same relationship [...]
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Henry Blodget writes about Ingenio, the pay-per-call company that used to power Match.com’s Profile Helper service (Ingenio used to be Keen.com). Evidently, Match got the short end of the deal with Ingenio, and canceled the service after a year or so due to lack of interest. Some blame the short lifespan of the profile service [...]
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Never one to pass up an attempt to take the high ground, PerfectMatch CEO Duane Dahl calls dating site spammers “hideous solicitors” and goes on to break bread with Eharmony and JDate.
I found this somewhat surprising, as PM usually overdoes it when it comes to distancing itself from competitors.
Press release.
[tags: perfectmatch]
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I’ve been receiving a lot of information about the lawsuit alleging that Match has posted fake profiles on it’s site. It’s shaping up to be quite a story, which I will share more of shortly.
In the meantime, here’s a link to a PR Newswire story which says that the alleged Match employee named in a [...]
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A woman named Mary has been blogging about auditioning for the new reality show American Inventor. While perusing her blog, I came across the idea for the iFlirt. Reminiscent of Lovegetty, iFlirt is an add-on for your iPod that alerts you when someone matching your criteria comes within your PAN (Personal Area Network).
[tags: iflirt, lovegetty]
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More than 10% of Sweden belongs to Lunarstorm, a new social network style site. I found this interesting because back in the day I worked on Torget.se, a site commissioned by the Swedish government to provide AOL-style experience to Swedes. At $6M, it was a huge undertaking, and one of my most memorable Internet boom [...]
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I did another Singles Podcasting Network show with Rich Gosse. The tag line for the site is “Learn about what is going on behind the scenes in the dating industry from experts in the know. 15 minutes of news and rumors not to be missed.” Sums it up about right.
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