Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Adam over at FoxBase Alpha points to a paper written by MIT economists titled “What Makes You Click? – Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating” by Günter J. Hitsch, Ali Hortaçsu and Dan Ariely. A good read if you’re interested in optimal BMI, superstar effects and charts showing how much money a [...]
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Walt Disney-owned ESPN is shutting down (reg req’d) it’s mobile phone service after pumping $150 million into the yearlong effort to deliver sports information to on the go sports aficionados. I had high hopes for the service, too bad it kicked the buck so quickly.
Speaking of mobile applications, last I heard, Match Mobile had 100,000 [...]
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Want to tell your online dating story? A researcher would like to interview a handful of people in the Boston area for an informal class project about their experience of online dating and how they use online dating sites. The interview will take less than an hour and the data only used for research purposes. [...]
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I continue to hear from people who are looking for dating site developers. I went to good old guru.com, typed in “dating” and voila, 200 people who have the word dating in their work profile.
I posted a request for developers to Craigslist once, and received 315 emails in 4 days. For those who don’t have [...]
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Plaxo says it’s a friend’s birthday. I go to the site, take the time to create a really cool card and note, and as I’m about to send it, I’m greeted with a message saying I have to join a free trial to send the card.
Could they have picked a worse point in the [...]
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Ellen Gamerman at the WSJ wrote an article about rating, reputation (reg req’d) and online dating.
More and more dating sites are integrating reputation and testimonial features, including Engage.com (one-time client), Consumating and JDate.
The result is an emerging caste system, where highly rated daters see a lot of action, and others are deemed undateable. The online [...]
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Userplane is in the dog house. Popular pet destinations Dogster and Catster are rolling out Userplane’s real-time, one-to-one instant messaging and audio/video chat. Fido and Spot have entered the internet age.
The Dogster and Catster IM player is highly customized to solve a unique challenge: namely, that one user often has several profiles. Each profile uses [...]
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I teleported to the brand-new Starwood Hotel in SecondLife this morning. As soon as I sat at the bar a few people came by and we started talking. One guy (no bartender!) started handing out virtual beers and we talked and drank for a while. I tried to get my avatar to do a [...]
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Pete over at Mashable notes that WeeWorld just launched WeeMee avatars, and announced a partnership with AOL. 10 million WeeMees have been created in more than 39 countries, allowing users to post a personalized avatar on blogs, social networks, e-mail signatures, instant messengers and cellphones.
Yahoo IM has been the reigning king of IM avatars [...]
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