Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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The Apple WWDC (developers) keynote today did not disappoint. Ordered my 32GB iPhone, should be here on the 19th.
(Some txt via Gizmodo)
40 million iPhone and iPod touches. In the last year, mobile has officially become a viable platform, larger than some gaming platforms.
Dating sites are starting to roll out iPhone apps. Match’s is nice, so [...]
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Christian at skout.com emailed with some big news.
Get your own mobile dating service: Skout will white label its’ solution to enable anyone to run their own mobile dating service. The structure is simple;
1) You provide logo and colors,
2) Skout provides your branded solution (destination site, mobile web, iPhone App, and news letter),
3) Skout provides the [...]
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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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This is for Skout: Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech. Please integrate into Skout mobile, thanks.
Yahoo has launched the Friends On Fire Facebook application. FOF is based on and built by the Fire Eagle team, Yahoo’s location-based service.
Foursquare Seeks to Turn Nightlife Into a Game: google acquired Dodgeball, [...]
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Just got off the phone with Redg at Skout. Skout is presenting at Demo this afternoon, around 2:30pm PST. Demo is a launchpad for emerging technology, similar to TechCrunch 50.
Skout is bringing location-based dating to 10,000 social venues across the US. A special version of Skout will be running on 42″ touch-screens which people can [...]
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There is going to be a big announcement by a mobile dating company on Monday. Embargo’s, grrr.
Facebook: Telecoms’ New Best Friend? Phone makers are coming out with Facebook phones. Where is my eHarmony-branded Blackberry and what about mobile dating apps from top-10 dating sites?
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Shayan at Zoosk turned me onto this article – Why Dating Sites Should Care About Virtual Goods.
Eharmony spends $93.3 million in advertising in 9 months, almost twice as much as Match.com.
Eharmony changes its community guidelines and forgot to mention it.
Eharmony buys FertileThoughts.com (old but relevant, still on acquisition spree).
10 Best iPhone Apps for Dating
Online Dating [...]
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Skout is a mobile, real-time, location-based dating service that lets members chat with, share photos, and find dates with other singles in their vicinity. The Skout iPhone application has finally been approved by the App store. I’d like to review the site while connected with someone, maybe you. I’m Dave Evans in Boston, find me [...]
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According to TechCrunch, Juniper Research has just released a new report that claims the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market will grow to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013. That number is generous to a fault but growth is unavoidable, as mobile dating platforms, service providers, developers and applications are currently surging after several [...]
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