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A small bird flew up to my window and said I should go check out the OKCupid Dating Test on Facebook. I do not understand why the application logo is a scary weaponized military helicopter, but then I see that cupid is the pilot and the ammunition is arrows.

The online Dating Persona Test will gauge [...]

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I’ve been getting a lot of emails from Facebook dating applications this week after signing up for about 20 of them last weekend. Thing is, I deleted 20 applications a few weeks ago because I thought they were breaking things on Facebook. It appears that when you delete a Facebook dating application, all of the [...]

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Check out the WooMe traffic trajectory (monthly visitors). Here are a bunch of YouTube videos made by the founder, Stephen Stokols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7qBtcrWvzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZEZHbpKds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCecpStCNc
There are several more related videos at youTube. Steven is pretty smooth, knowledgeable about the space, knows how to sell the value proposition to the money guys, press and consumers. He knows how to pump [...]

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I’m putting together a list of Facebook dating applications. If you created one, use one that you like, or have invested in a company that is/has built one, leave a comment and I’ll include the application.
I’m doing this because Facebook doesn’t do a good enough job categorizing applications and with more than 1,000 in the [...]

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Post tax day depression starting to lift. Joined GetREELed, a social network for fisherman. After a day on the site I am already hosting an urban fishing expidition in May. That’s why I love niche sites. I’ve met more interesting people that actually want to hang out together in 24 hours than I have on [...]

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I don’t write about dating site launches often unless they have an interesting twist. Slashflirt launched today and is worth a quick look, if anything for the back-story.
Slashflirt is a new dating site focusing on gamers. Slashflirt is a play on the Slashdot brand, an online community popular with the pocket-protector set.
Those of you keeping [...]

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Dating site owners, time to polish up that P&L statement and start buying massive amounts of traffic. Judging by this job posting, eHarmony is gearing up for a buying spree. Good timing, I’m doing due diligence on a number of dating properties at the moment, I wonder what the parameters are for an eHarmony acquisition?
Why [...]

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Widgetbait Gone Wild talks about using widgets to build links back to dating sites. Matthew Inman did this for his site, JustSayHi, and Google spanked him big time for inappropriate linkbaiting.

Some of you might remember I left SEOmoz last year to join up with JustSayHi with the intention of creating the world’s biggest, baddest free [...]

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