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OnlineSpeedDating.com Domain For Sale

by David Evans on July 30, 2008   in Marketing, speeddating

OnlineSpeedDating.com is available, a great strategic asset to an online speed dating company or one that’s about to enter that space. Contact vladravin at gmail dot com for details.

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Match.com will start advertising to affluent singles.
The new Honesty Online blog.
I grow weary of signing up for new dating sites. Does anyone actually think to ask if their questions are any good? Why don’t dating sites link to popular photo-sharing sites? I have to open up iPhoto, find a photo crop/export it to desktop, then [...]

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Online Dating Week In Review June 27, 2008

by David Evans on June 27, 2008   in Legal, Marketing, speeddating

Lot’s of news to cover, rumors to mull over, a tremendous amounts of comments, dating site launches and as always, much love to our sponsors, Userplane, SkaDate, ivoation and Dating Ad Network. Click their ads and find out how they can help you run a successful online dating site.
I had lunch with Ravi @ Viximo [...]

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Woo, Omni or Speed?

by David Evans on June 24, 2008   in speeddating

OmniDate is getting some heavy PR after they redesigned the site. WooMe just got $12 million to make video introductions and SpeedDate continues to grow in popularity. Will people prefer Flash-based avatars from Omnidate, live video conversations from WooMe or strictly speed-dating from SpeedDate? Which company will be the first to land a large dating [...]

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Dating & Discovery Services Raising Big Bucks

by David Evans on June 18, 2008   in Finance, speeddating

Two big fundraising events in the past week have occurred.
First, online videochat service WooMe has raised $12.5 Million. That’s an enormous amount of money for a videochat site, but after having a conversation with CEO Stephen Stokols I’m pretty confident that they know exactly what they are doing. The Series B round was led by [...]

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Monday 6-2 Links

by David Evans on June 2, 2008   in Marketing, speeddating

I’m excited to be working with World Singles, who’s Arab Lounge is in the news. You’ve probably seen their advertising which is all over the place these days.
Farmers Weekly Interactive launches Muddy Matches online dating service. Love the name but the people on the home page don’t look like farmer’s to me.
Dating DNA brings online [...]

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WooMe Harriss Poll

by David Evans on May 30, 2008   in speeddating

Online video introduction site WooMe sent me the results of a Harris Interactive poll that point to one of the main reasons why online dating sites fail – because there is no live interaction with video.
I disagree that video is a main reason why online dating sites have trouble attracting new members and creating lasting [...]

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Bringing Speed Dating to The Next Level

by David Evans on May 23, 2008   in speeddating

Several years ago I worked on a business plan for a speed dating application built on top of Skype. After my conversation with Stephen at WooMe I dug up the feature list and thought it would be interesting to compare what we were thinking about back then with what WooMe and SpeedDate are doing.

Video and [...]

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Camlink Speed Dating

by David Evans on May 7, 2008   in speeddating

There’s a new speeddating site currently in beta. Camlink launched a private beta Feb 5th, and is live today.
Ilya Zatulovskiy co-founder and CEO of Camlink, had this to say about the speed dating patent (U.S. Patent Number 7,203,674) that SpeedDate licensed:
They licensed the patent back in August 2007 – (maybe this was a letter of [...]

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Cupidcast Interview: Engage.com

by David Evans on May 2, 2008   in Blogs & Podcasts, speeddating

The latest Cupidcast show is up on iTunes. Last night we talked with Suneet Wadhwa and Trish McDermot of Engage.com. Much of the conversation focused on the hot new “social dating” trend, a great topic for singles as well as dating industry executives. Please show us some love and subscribe to CupidCast in iTunes.
Next week [...]

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