Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Edward at Other Singles has been using Google Trends to track the popularity of the term “dating” according to geography.
Check out the graph. It shows Google search terms related to dating from regions of the world. Searches related to “dating” on Google eclipse all of the other countries combined. Granted Google Trends is still [...]
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Stupid Investment of the Week: Carmen on Luvoo. She cooed a sultry hello. She started to talk about dating. I quickly pinched myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. And then, the former “Baywatch” babe said two words that really turned me on: “publicly traded.” Too bad the stock is down 30% to $.257 cents.
Asexual [...]
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1) Are you going to the iDate Background Check Conference in San Francisco next month?
The 9th Internet Dating Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on July 13-14, 2006. The event will cover hot topics that affect the current state of the online dating industry, two of the highly salient issues being [...]
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Today Ingenio announced Ether, which according to Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence, “creates a range of interesting e-commerce opportunities for experts who sell advice rather than products.” I thought this launched months ago, I wrote Ether in November 2005. following the link for details about Match’s old Profile Helper service.
Ether allows those who have [...]
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From the department of location-based presence detection, Meetro has released an new version of their chat client. Meetro let’s you see who is nearby, based on zip code, and includes a basic profile. They have a Myspace importer that pulls in your About, Music Movies, Places and other profile data. Nice.
Something they need to fix [...]
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Interested to see what this is all about. Unfortunately their feed is clunking. Empowering the consumer by building a new ad model. Hmm, where have we heard this before?
Technorati Tags: attention, comparison+shopping, jellyfish
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True.com has been ranked as the nation’s No. 1 dating site, according to Hitwise’s May 2006 report on lifestyle dating Web sites. I’m glad to see this finally happen, what with Match, Yahoo and PlentyofFish saying they are so popular, I’m glad this is finally settled.
True CMO Cornell McGee has been sending a lot of [...]
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From the department of inventions you didn’t see on American Inventor. Rapex is selling anti-rape condoms. the inventor claims they are easy to use, prevents STD’s and comfortable(!) to wear. Comfortable if you think walking around with a razor-sharp gadget inside of you is going to keep you safe. I can imagine lawyers are going [...]
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From TechCrunch, straight out of Jamaica comes Smutvibes, the newest adult social networking service from Vibesnetwork. Explicit photos are encouraged. Absolutely 100% NSFW (Not Safe For Work).
Technorati Tags: social+networking
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