Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
A photo-browsing site Jiffr launched on Valentine’s Day. Built in a single weekend, the service is a photo-based dating service that works without words. Great if you score greater than say an 8 out of 10. Photos are pulled from your Flickr account, so you need to join to play.
Once you are registered, you can [...]
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This reminded me of the recent decision for Avid Life Media to turn HotorNot into a market research tool.
SF-based Peanut Labs, a provider of digital market research into the “Gen-Y”€Â? demographic, has raised a $3.2 million first round from Leapfrog Ventures and BV Capital. The company has developed a system, dubbed Sample3.0, that plugs into [...]
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I heard from Stephany Alexander, who runs Womansavers, “World’s Largest Database Rating Men” (30,000+ men’s names, descriptions & photos entered by women, top 5% most popular women’s websites). Thankfully I don’t show up in the database.
WomanSavers has been the leader in online men’s database ratings since 2003, making us the first and most established of [...]
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New features at Yahoo! Personals continue to pop up unannounced. Here we see the ability to select which information is displayed at the top of people’s profiles. I changed mine up immediately, the previously-displayed information wasn’t right for me, now I can quickly see the few datapoints that get me to keep reading.
Before Editing
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Slashdot has a great article, Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You!, written by frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton wants to make online dating better.
His ideas, at least those which I was able to stay awake through, were interesting.
As with Slashdot, the good stuff is in the comments.
We don’t need YAUDSBSWWTMAMBOOOPM (Yet Another Useless [...]
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Yesterday I was filmed for a documentary about 30-something women called Seeking Happily Ever After, which looks at why today’s 30-somethings give themselves permission to take more time to select a spouse.
The Producer’s Guild of America selected the film to be screened at The Sundance Festival 2008. The producer is looking for funding for the [...]
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Social communications company Jaxtr has just released a new destination called Jaxtr Cafe. Jaxtr is creating a social network on the go, allowing you to participate in your favorite discussions while mobile. Jaxtr has successfully completed eleven months of beta testing and today released version 1.0 of its service. The centerpiece of the 1.0 [...]
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Did we enjoy the Oscar’s last night? I only saw two of the movies, but I guessed right on eight of the categories. Loved the iPhone and Wii product placements.
The eHarmony PR machine wrote into mention an article about eHarmony Labs that ran on ABC News. Its the usual story, lots of marriages and 100,000 [...]
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You Suck at Photoshop episode #7 is hilarious. Subtitle should be “How to hot up your Facebook photo.”
Each week a guy named Donnie takes on a viewer-submitted photo and applies some serious Photoshop trickery, often with coffee-spitting results.
Episode #7 features the photo of a viewer who writes, “My marriage broke up and I need to [...]
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