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TechCrunch is talking about online dating again, someone over there must be single. This was the title of a New York Times Magazine article two years ago, aren’t we at 3.0 by now?

Story starts out with the usual “Myspace is really a dating site”, traffic stats and PlentyOfFish references.

It’s a decent aggregation of a particular [...]

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Today’s niche site is DateAGolfer.

DateAGolfer.com is an online golf community developed specifically to help people expand their golf network. DateAGolfer.com is more than just dating, offering members an opportunity to share their passion for golf.

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InternetWeek wrote an article I contributed to which does a decent job explaining the draw of niche sites in the social networking and dating space. The author sent me a link to a new site, check out Quirkyalone, “a community of independent thought on singledom, life, and love.”

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Thirtyplussingles is a dating site focusing on, you guessed it, over-30 singles. I received a good-looking promotion from one of their affiliates. Interesting that the “offer” is not for twenty-somethings. I have not signed up for the service, but I cannot imagine that they have a process in places to weed out people which fall [...]

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Lately I have felt that just about everything that can be said about the major players in the online dating industry has been said, either here, in the MMS (mainstream media) or on other blogs.

To that end, I’ve decided to cancel my Match, Yahoo and other mainstream dating site subscriptions. Instead, I will subscribe to [...]

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A scan of recent business press would indicate that MSM (mainstream media) is interested in hearing not about why revenue is down but more importantly, what a few small startups are doing to change the face of online dating.
During a recent interview with Red Herring, I was encouraged to talk about companies other than the [...]

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