Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
eHarmony has been called a Christian dating site, it’s been made fun of on late night television for years. It’s also responsible for 2% of all marriages. What it’s not been is gay-friendly, until now. After several years of litigation and pressure from the gay community, eHarmony has launched a same-sex relationship site, Compatible Partners. [...]
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I get a little excited when I think about all the technology required to run dating sites. Here are some new tools I learned about today.
Selenium is a web application testing system.
CRM114 is a system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the [...]
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Match and several other dating sites are already on Hunch, the new decision-assistance site from Flickr founder Caterina Fake. I checked out the Which online dating site should I try question. I have this exact system running on my laptop as a demo, forgot about it until I saw Hunch. Anything is better than Epinions [...]
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Match has launched an iPhone application. Downloading it now, will play around with it tonight and review tomorrow.
Dilbert loves using his phone on dates.
Fewer Ads Can Boost Click-Through. For the love of God, less junk ads on dating sites, please!
A Pretty Woman Beats a Good Loan Deal …the effect of a mere photo of a [...]
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Thoughts for a rainy Sunday: What is more effective, guided communication such as eHarmony and Chemistry or email filters based on user criteria as seen on Plentyoffish and OKCupid?
People tend to complain about guided communication more than email filters, why is this?
Guided communication seems to be more popular on “serious” relationships as opposed to casual.
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Quinn Lipin is the CEO of SinglesNet, which is based outside of Boston in Needham,MA. He is also the CEO of Enesun, a company which places medical professionals that he founded in 1995.
The comments on this Center Networks story about SinglesNet advertising are interesting to say the least:
A woman saying that it’s her photo [...]
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Anyone starting or running a dating site should listen to this Venture Hacks podcast How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year. The dating industry growth hype due to the recession is leading many people to start dating sites. 98% of these companies are going to fail if they don’t pay attention to the [...]
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I signed up for Compatible Partners, the upcoming eHarmony same-sex dating site, several months ago. Today I received an email confirming my registration. I clicked the link and was directed to thank you for confirming your registration. That’s it. There is no website yet, it’s still under construction. This lack of attention to detail does [...]
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