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The Match.com brain drain continues. Several key people at Match have left the company to work at another consumer brand hell bent on putting Reed Hastings out of business.
This is a continuing trend at Match, I get more Plaxo updates from the Texas internet dating giant than any other dating site.

Details are thin, but let’s [...]

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I received a tip from a Molson drinker that Lavalife paid something like $5 million a year (CDN) for the deal with Sympatico.MSN.ca. That’s about $4.1M USD to us Budweiser drinkers.

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“Matchmaker needs a matchmaker.
Post $10m ad spend, white flag flying.
Suffering from recent bout of brain drain.
Needs TLC, url to die for.
Gr8 potential for right buyer.
$2M or B.O.”

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A financier’s discourse on the parallels between online dating and investing. Instant classic.
Eric J. Fry, writing for The Daily Reckoning, an investment website:
“You should try Match.com,” a friend suggested to your New York editor recently. “That Website rocks!”
“Yeah, I know about Match.com,” we replied. “That’s the somewhat hip dating site where my ex-wife placed [...]

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I overheard someone at last night’s cocktail party use the term “warehouse dating” to describe the customer experience at Match and Yahoo! Yahoo! has begun to address this with their Premiere service and rumor has it that Match is not far behind. Segmenting user populations through various re-branding initiatives to give users the perception that [...]

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Gawker has more insider info on the cuts at SpringStreet. Insiders (probably management) are arguing over the validity of these statements:

SpringStreet is operating with just 8 people. Most of the technology and customer service team has been let go. Only 2 people remain in each department. One programmer is left to support over 80 [...]

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Just a month after Daum Communications bought Lycos, Matchmaker is on the block. No details about the asking price yet. I posted a timeline of events leading up to the Daum acquisition here. Daum plans to introduce blog-based social software service with more bells and whistles using Lycos platform and its user base.

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Big changes are happening here at Socialpeople. As you read this, I am moving this blog to Corante.com. Corante is a leading news and business intelligence service on technology and science that’s read by many of the sector’s top entrepreneurs, executives, funders, followers and thinkers. An information service that delivers targeted news coverage of multiple [...]

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Looks like scammers using Webdate to troll for victims to save ‘damsels’ in distress.
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