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I just got a call from a Match Platinum matchmaker. I signed up late last week to see how long it would take them to call back and find out more about the service.
Match is promoting the Platinum service to Match and non-Match customers. The idea being you get matched with Match members first, then [...]

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I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this, must have been too much eggnog during the holidays. Mining/holding company Mountains West have announced their intention to merge Together, The Right One and eLove to create an off-and-online dating powerhouse.
Nothing says “we care deeply about creating long-lasting relationships� than being bought by a mining company involved [...]

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Hows that for an ambigious press release headline? I went to a workshop hosted by the Social Mdia Club Boston last week where we talked about Press Release 2.0 and other ways the PR field needs to get with the program in this tagged, metadata, blogged, influencer-driven media world we live in.
After reading some [...]

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My Dating Place, a local half-hour strip, will be tested on Fox-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate KUTP Phoenix starting late this year or early 2007. Would-be daters can apply on the station’s Website.

…Fox Television Stations Chairman Roger Ailes and CEO Jack Abernethy are looking to capitalize locally on the popularity of online dating sites like Match.com. Terenzio [...]

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Not my quote, but succinctly describes why Walmart has closed it’s nascent social networking site, TheHub, after a few short months.

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Snip from links via Popgadget:

Using a combination of prime-time TV and the Internet, Shaadi Online has helped arrange dozens of marriages since going on air in Pakistan three years ago, shaking up a conservative Muslim culture in which family networks usually decide who weds whom.

Religious leaders accuse the show of promoting a western agenda to [...]

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Corner bars play a vital role in the fabric of society. Recently a fellow sitting next to me mentioned the PHP scripting language, at which time I promptly looked directly at him and said, “Why not Ruby on Rails?” Within minutes, I come to find out he works on the Chuck Woolery Lovetactics site, uses [...]

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The NY Times Magazine ran a big article (reg req’d) about matchmakers, quoting Janis Spindel extensively. $750 for a 30-minute meeting, $20,000 initiation fees, $250,000 marriage bonuses, what a business model! More than 90 percent of her clients, she claims, settle on one of the first three matches. For the tiny sliver of humankind that [...]

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Adrants has a link to a story about an Australian Chinese woman who has spent $5,000 to buy a billboard in Randwick for a month advertising for a husband. She is quite nonchalant about the whole thing, “I’m surprised a lot of people think this is special or unusual,” she said. “It’s Australia. There’s a [...]

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