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I’m enjoying editing my Match profile every few days, adding the date and uploading new photos like it’s a blog. Only problem is there are very few interesting people on Match around Boston. So I’m moving over to Yahoo Personals because I can’t find a niche site thats right for me. I miss the old geographic-targeted dating sites. Where is the new local Boston dating site? It’s not Craigslist, I’ve surfed that and backed away slowly every time, who are these people?
A service like Twitter would be perfect for Match. Same goes for Facebook’s Notes, where short text blurbs can be easily added to your profile and Mini-Feed.
I subscribe to lots of Mini-feeds on Facebook. Susan Mernits at Yahoo Personals just popped up, stating:
Susan Mernit is planning how to fix bugs and prepping th attack The Big Bug List and scope it down. Fun.See, it ain’t all poetry.
Now I have no idea what this bug list has to do with. Could be anything, or a Yahoo Personals product that’s on a development server. Or is it issues with the live server? Security problems, credit cards, personal information? I’m not being alarmist, just saying that without context, the increasingly granular communication channels like Twitterstreams out there can be easily misinterpreted.
I’d still like to see dating profiles become more like blogs. Static profiles are so 2003. I guess phone calls and background checks are more important, because they bring in revenue immediately and dating sites are loath to implement anything that doesn’t allow them to charge members.
For all the revenue-hunting that dating sites are doing (who said spending more on advertising was more effective than fixing your broken site?), they tend to ignore the very simple things that have the potential to make the largest difference.
I’m off to go for a ride on Codzilla.
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7 responses so far ↓
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Andrew Arnott (Check me out!)
// Aug 22, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Dave,
It’s so funny how we are on the same wave length. Working on such a site as we speak, look for the press release in a few weeks ;)
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Alex (Check me out!)
// Aug 23, 2007 at 9:33 am
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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sabuffy (Check me out!)
// Aug 24, 2007 at 12:58 am
Contact me directly if you want to check out a dating site with all the ‘bells and whistles’ with over 10 years experience.
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Jerry (Check me out!)
// Aug 28, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Good topic. I was on Yahoo Personals about 1 year ago. I turned to another dating site when I am not satisfied with this service. My lover is met on millionaire cupid. Think it’s good.
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viola (Check me out!)
// Aug 30, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Oh, if you want to find a niche dating site. Richromances maybe a good choice, I just knew this site yesterday from one of my friends who is a member of that good site.
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alexia (Check me out!)
// Sep 10, 2007 at 10:52 am
can anybody tell about dating website…
i am searching for partner….
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buffy (Check me out!)
// Sep 11, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Hey Alexa feel free to check out my profile and you can contact me via my blog. I can certainly help you out with info about dating websites since I’ve been working for one for over 5 years!
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