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I’m enjoying editing my Match profile every few days, adding the date and uploading new photos like it’s a blog. Only problem is there are very few interesting people on Match around Boston. So I’m moving over to Yahoo Personals because I can’t find a niche site thats right for me. I miss the old  [...]

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PlanetOut Sells Majority Stake For $26.2 Million.
Y! Personals is just another Fat man.
MySpace API taking shape. Just how relevant is Myspace?
Collaboradate launches public beta. Take every possible viral marketing, widget, customized home page feature and mash it up with a dating site. Oh me oh my.

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After several years of losing ground to competitors and upstarts like Match.com and eHarmony, Yahoo! Personals is updating it’s creaky dating application and bringing it up to par with other paid dating services.
The new dating platform should make it easier to roll out new services. Although little is known about the “blazing efficient datamap”, new [...]

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It’s been fun watching everyone I know starting to move over to Facebook ever since the new Facebook Platform launched several weeks ago. The great rush to Myspace is over and I’m never going back.
I’ve installed the Firefox Facebook Toolbar, which keeps be going back to Facebook far more often than if I only had [...]

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Talk about annoying. Match demands non-members subscribe for the privilege of viewing profiles. I had to create a fake member and give them my phone number, but the link that explains the phone number never popped up. I bet it was for the Concierge service, but how annoying is that?

Then, when I went to sign [...]

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JLove, the Jewish dating site formed by ex-JDate executives, is now available in Hebrew, French, Russian, Dutch, Spanish and German. To showcase these languages, JLove has created a toolbar along the top of the homepage.

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Facebook Gifts: Pushing the limits of rationality:

Yesterday I spoke with Bill Snow at BuyMyAffection. Bill thought I was really upset with him, and we proceeded to hash out the details and talk in more detail how his service operates and the vale to dating sites and singles.
Men buying stuff for women to win or keep [...]

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A new company called Buy My Affection contacted me to see if I was interested in learning more about their service, which boils down to men buying women presents in order to get the women to go out with them.
This kind of opportunistic commerce, especially when it comes to preying on people’s vulnerabilities, raises my [...]

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I like how Classmates has added further customization of profile pages, including the ability to create new pages featuring blogs, photo galleries and articles. If they can do it with hundreds of thousands (millions?) of members, what’s holding back dating sites from offering the same features? Most social nets offer some sort of customizability and [...]

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