Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Dating site search engines and the algorithms used to display results have always mystified me. Often there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the results. Are members who log in frequently listed first? Are people who don’t log in often effectively punished by showing up farther down the list of results? Match and [...]
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Robert Fathers, CEO of World Dating Partners, wrote in to clarify details about the deal with Relationship Exchange as well as give us a good look into WDP operations marketing and plans for 2008.
Relationship Exchange partners have been very loyal despite some hiccups in
the past, all the main partners at RE are transferring to WDP [...]
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Brandweek digs into the details behind the new Match.com “Rewind” campaign.
The follow-up to “It’s ok to Look”, Darcy Cameron, vp-advertising and marketing at Match says Rewind shows people who have found love online, that Match works.
Do people choose a dating site because of testimonials? I don’t think many people pay attention to testimonials, but that [...]
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I have a Doppelganger named David Evans. David is the founder of Psychster, (more info) an online psychological research specializing in the social science of social networking. He wrote to let us know about You Just Get Me, a Facebook application launched in October that helps people analyze whether others are forming accurate personality [...]
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Dig a Tech Girl is a mashup of Digg and Hot or Not, with a focus on women in the Internet and technology industry. Plenty of eye candy and an opportunity to check out the cube farm hotties at Yahoo. As with similar sites, after five minutes your done and moving on to something [...]
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While reading Iceland Review Online, I came across the following:
Iceland has its own online dating service, einkamal.is, but it leaves MUCH to be desired. It’s not the site so much as the society. In a population of 300,000, blind dating is a bit like playing gin-rummy with a deck of five; you know [...]
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The Google Operating System Blog says:
Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your contacts.
“A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more about who you are and what you’re [...]
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eTwine Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of social networking applications, has announced the change of the company’s name to SNAP Interactive, Inc. SNAP is derived from the acronym for “Social Networking Application Provider.” In conjunction with its name change, the Company’s ticker symbol will change to STVI effective Friday, December 14, 2007.
SNAP Interactive initially created [...]
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The speed dating market continues to get serious about bringing people together via microphone and webcam.
SpeedDate.com, the world’s first online speed dating website, secured an exclusive license to U.S. Patent Number 7,203,674 covering key aspects of online speed dating. The agreement further solidifies SpeedDate.com’s position at the forefront of an online dating industry moving towards [...]
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Kevin Carmony, recently-resigned CEO for desktop Linux vendor Linspire, today unveiled his new venture, Dating DNA, LLC. Dating DNA provides free and open Web Services which bring 1-click compatibility scoring and other sophisticated dating features to Social Networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Craigslist.
No news that daters have been leaving paid dating sites in [...]
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