From the monthly archives:

July 2006

GoFish Launches Branded Dating Show

by David Evans on July 31, 2006   in Blogs & Podcasts, Marketing

Video sharing site GoFish is promoting it’s online reality contest, American Dream Date, by posting footage on other video sharing sites. Jet Set energy drinks are the sponsor of the show, which is using social networking to build it’s brand.
Listen to the podcast (1m34s, 2.2 MB). Read more at ClickZ.

Technorati Tags: gofish, jet set

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Celebpersonals.com

by David Evans on July 28, 2006   in Dating Sites

This made me very sad this morning. I barely have enough energy to be annoyed at Yahoo Personals for not answering my questions about what’s going on over there.

Newly single UMA THURMAN is so desperate to get back on the dating scene she’s considering joining a showbiz dating service. The statuesque KILL BILL beauty, who [...]

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EU Social Networking and Mobile Dating Conference

by David Evans on July 28, 2006   in Conferences

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announced the Mobile Dating Conference and European Online Personals Conference to be held on September 25-26, 2006 in Amsterdam at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel.

The Wireless and Mobile Dating Conference and Expo will focus on management, technology and marketing for the mobile and wireless dating industry. The European Internet Dating Conference will [...]

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IncrediMail, a leading software company specializing in consumer email products, has dumped partner PointMatch, to hook up with Yahoo! Personals. IncrediMail will offer a co-branded version of the Yahoo! Personals service to IncrediMail users.

As far as I know, this is the first major partnerships Yahoo! has done with a company outside of the dating space. [...]

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Match.com Running Google Adwords

by David Evans on July 27, 2006   in Partnerships

Andy Arnott, CTO of Collaboradate says that Match is running Google ads on people’s profile pages.

If you have logged into Match.com you have seen a new “ads provided by google” section. Did match finally wake up to the fact that they will be pushed out of the market? Many of the free dating sites have [...]

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Forbest Best Cities for Singles List

by David Evans on July 26, 2006   in Research

Proving once again that Forbes should stick to finance, this year’s listing of top towns for singles benefits from an “improved methodology.” Leading off with Providence, RI as the #14 best city for singles in the US and 12th in nightlife cast an amateur-statistician pall over the remainder of the findings. I live in downtown [...]

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EVENT: Don’t Miss The Bachelor Chronicles in NYC

by David Evans on July 26, 2006   in Events

Ron Geraci, former Men’s Health dating columnist, will be reading from his new memoir, “The Bachelor Chronicles” tonight at 7:00 PM at the Barnes and Noble in Astor Place (at Broadway) in Greenwich Village, NYC.

Technorati Tags: bachelor+chronicles

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Much of my work in the online dating industry involves working with startups looking for a way to leapfrog their way into a market-leading position in a particular niche. Other times it’s developing new growth strategies for established sites that are looking to crack the top 10, or struggling to stay there.

I’ve spoken with many [...]

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Review: Whitesmoke writing tool

by David Evans on July 25, 2006   in Niche, Technology

Personal Computer World has a review of Whitesmoke, the downloadable writing support software I mentioned a few weeks ago. I’ve asked for a copy of the software several times, to no avail, so I can’t comment on how it performs.

Technorati Tags: white smoke

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Integrated Enterprises, a mobile marketing and direct response communications holding company based in Miami, and its subsidiary Love In A Flash, LLC announce the acquisition of Rapid Dating, Inc.

RapidDating was founded by dating coach Renee Piane, author of Love Mechanics. Integrated Enterprises is the holding company for Rapid Dating.com, a leading dating/relationship venue; for Centella, [...]

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