Finally, the iGeneration has a good head shot.
CatholicMatch, the largest provider of online dating for Catholics, has acquired the assets of TraditionalSingleCatholics. Compete says CatholicMatch has 160,000 visitors, which could be 250k for all we know. TraditionalSingleCatholics has 297 people. Brian, what’s the deal here?
R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010. This, my friends, is the definition of a an Internet fad. Chatroulette’s cultural relevance has expired overnight. Cause of death: penises. You know what’s going to take over the world? Apple’s Facetime. Stick a digital mask on with something like ManyCam and you’ve got your virtual date, live, as video, on your laptop and phone. It will take a while to make interoperable with Skype, but when that happens, it’s just going to be a big bag of videoconferencing awesomeness.
Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? I wonder why we don’t hear much about ex-Match, eHarmony, Meetic people leaving to start their own companies, dating or otherwise.
I like to think that some dating site entrepreneurs started out like this 5-year old kid in Brooklyn making artisanal small-batch charcoal. Great story, made me smile.
Alcatel-Lucent acquires ProgammableWeb, pushes deeper into developer ecosystem: Redg Snodgrass, who was at Skout, has been kicking it big time at Alcatel-Lucent. API’s bring good things to life.
Speaking of sharing, Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers. Data portability isn’t something discussed in the dating industry very often in public. Dating sites sell profiles up and down the river every day, but that’s a big shhhh! topic. Everywhere else, data portability is the topic of the moment, and will be for many quarters to come.
Going to slow down for the holiday weekend, enjoy.
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It was a tiny site Dave and I would never say otherwise, but when you have the chance to consolidate a niche market it is better to do it than not. Do we need to do this? Probably not. In our niche (like many others) none of the sites have or would significantly add to our bottom line as our main growth continues to be organic. But it is a good way to reinforce our position as the market leader in our niche. Plus we build some bridges along the way with people who were once a competitor and are now a supporter.
BTW, while I use Compete often and have even paid for their services from time to time. I will say their unique visitor numbers do run light compared to our internal numbers, but they are still a useful tool especially since much is still free.
99% of the people DO NOT want to “date online” they want to meet somebody online. Which is why I hate that our industry is labeled “online dating.” Our job is to provide our customers with a great experience online and improve their ability to “meet someone” online. I spend ZERO time trying to figure out how they can better DATE on our site.
Brian, thanks for chiming in about the acquisition. I tend to triangulate between Compete and Quantcast and sometimes Alexa. I have the Compete extension for Firefox, for every site I visit the People Count shows up in the browser status bar. Generally I 1.5X the number to get a sense of the traffic, which seems to be about right.
I think Chat roulette could do very well as a gay dating site, I can see it turning into Fabulous or something like that. It could be an adult dating site.
Looking forward to see your thoughts on this
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_personals_to_close_free_dating_may_have_spel.php
Chatroulette has got eaten alive by its own concept. It was funny at the beginning to see anything mixed with pervs, but now, they represent 80% of the audience. The site has to choose a path to survive, but for every choice I can’t see any benefit.
they want to meet somebody online. Which is why I hate that our industry is labeled “online dating.” Our job is to provide our customers with a great experience online and improve their ability to “meet someone” online. I spend ZERO time trying to figure out how they can better DATE on our site.
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I agree with Brian that 99% of the people DO NOT want to “date online” they want to meet somebody online. For serious dating, people prefer to meet the other person personally rather than online. Online is just for fun as most of the profiles are also not honest and trustworthy.
Well i think its always depend on the website and the people on it. since life is a little bit of rush, they can easily communicate and cope up in some unusual matter.
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