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The Red Sox win World Series
The curse is officially over!!!

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Love em or hate em, banner ads turned ten years old on October 25. AdLand is showing the first banner ad ever and ‘you will’ banner, and the commercials from 1994 that go with it. The banners turned ten years old October 25, 2004.

I was part of the group that uploaded the first AT&T ad [...]

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Red Sox are in the World Series. What birthday present could be better than that?
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I just found out that CNBC aired a segment on HotorNot.com that quoted me. It would cost $700 to post the clip here, what’s up with that? It was interesting to hear the reporter pumping me for positive quotes, I had not heard anything about the site in years. Hotornot is encouraging election awareness by [...]

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Singles-Flirt up your Life! is the simulation of the exciting relationship between Mike and Linda. The game places players in the role of matchmaker. Choosing from over a dozen, unique characters, the player will pick two people to move into a sparsely decorated apartment and begin their adventure together as new roommates. Numerous opportunities to [...]

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Did you know that Peng T. Ong was a co-founder and chief architect of Electric Classifieds, Inc (the creators of Match.Com)? I didn’t either. Previously, Peng was a consultant at Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. and also held various engineering and management roles at Sybase, Inc. and Gensym Corporation. I loved what Ilustra was doing (datablades!), [...]

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My blog policy is not to remove posts but in this case I’m getting tired of hearing from the management at boatdating.com. The home page there looks strange on a Mac and I pointed this out in an earlier post. Instead of fixing the problem and being thankful it was caught in time, they responded [...]

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Today I was invited to participate in a MatchMaker focus group. When I was initially asked, I mentioned this blog, and my day job running ProfileDoctor.com right up front, to make sure they were ok with that, which they were. I figured that I would provide them with useful feedback while I learn more about [...]

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Not online dating but close enough: Mercury News mentions that Yahoo is planning a social networking service called Mingle Link (reg req’d). John Dvorak has a nice Social Networking Is Over article just to balance things out.
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