Friendfinder IPO Cut in Half: Friendfinder Networks ongoing quest to IPO took another hit this week. The company has revised their S-1 to reflect a a halving of expected fundraising, from $460 Million to about $220 Million. Via paidContent.
City dating site Lovestruck, which matches single professionals to others who work close by for coffee, lunch or afterâ€work drinks, has successfully raised £285,000 in Series A funding. The investment will enable Lovestruck to consolidate its position as the dominant player on the London dating scene and to rollâ€out its offering to major cities around the world.
This BlackBox Rebpubic error page made me smile.
A list from Wiley InterScience of fascinating academic papers related to online dating.
Background Checks For All With BeenVerified’s iPhone App.
WLD Security Update: WhiteLabelDating has introduced email verification for new members joining their sites. As soon as they go through the sign up process, an email will be sent to their inbox with a link which will verify their account. I’m surprised they weren’t doing this already.
Dating site software Dolphin 7 is offering a mobile app re-branding license. I downloaded Dolphin and will be installing in this week to see hows it changed from previous versions.
Safeguard is in serious discussions with an underwriter that will allow them to offer marriage insurance coverage in all 50 states.
Virtual Dating Assistants continues to see gradual, steady growth. They have recently begun running a number of interesting experiments, which we plan to begin publishing on their blog soon.
What can a mouse cursor tell us more? correlation of eye/mouse movements on web browsing.
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I strongly recommend to read these NEW & FRESH 15 papers presented in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference 28-30 January 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada:
1) “Relationship Quality and Personality Similarity: Differentiating Distinctiveness and Normativeness” NEW & FRESH
2) “Relationship Quality, Personality, and Response to Relationship Transgressions” NEW & FRESH
3) “Personality correlates of different romantic intentions in speed daters” NEW & FRESH
4) “Who Am I in It For?: Relationship Goals and Positive Experiences in Dating Couples” NEW & FRESH
5) “The Effect of Personality Factors in Predicting Information Disclosure Online” NEW & FRESH
6) “Whom we (say we) want: Stated and actual preferences in online dating” NEW & FRESH
7) “ePersonality: Differential perceptions of personality during online and real-world social interactions” NEW & FRESH
8) “Workers Behaving Badly: Personality at Age 18 Predicts Workplace Deviance at Age 32″ NEW & FRESH
9) “Creating Shorter Personality Measures: Incorporating Item-Level Validity Diagnostics” NEW & FRESH
10) “Frequent Facebook Use: Maladaptive Addiction or Healthy Social Strategy?” NEW & FRESH
11) “People or Profiles?: Seeking Out or Warding Off the Perspectives of Others on Facebook” NEW & FRESH
12) “Who are you on Facebook? The role of personality and gender in online social networking sites” NEW & FRESH
13) “Using MySpace increases the endorsement of narcissistic personality traits” NEW & FRESH
14) “If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck: Replication and Construct Validation of Proverb-Based Personality Dimensions” NEW & FRESH
15) “The Positive and Negative Marital Qualities Scales and Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples” NEW & FRESH
Kindest Regards.
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
Those sound like good papers to read. I’m doing the Dewy Color System test tonight and reading up on a bunch of online dating papers from Wiley InterScience.
Re: WLD security update
Crazy. How long has this company been around? Did they hear about batch auto-signups of fake girls? What about 401/419?
How on earth did WLD work before?
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