Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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The suitors for Sex.com have been put off for now. An auction for the much-sought-after domain name was canceled Wednesday after three creditors filed a petition forcing the owner into bankruptcy. Escom LLC paid a reported $12 million to $14 million for the domain name in 2006, but the company was unable to repay the [...]
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I remain non-plussed about the majority of Chatroulette competitors. Then I heard about RandomDorm.
RandomDorm takes the thrilling serendipity of being paired with an anonymous stranger in a video chat room and limits it to college campuses. Participants need a college e-mail address to access the Web service. Alternatively, they can sign in using Facebook as [...]
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Virtual goods company Viximo has published a report for online publishers entitled “Raising Money For Charity Through Virtual Goods And 4 Keys to Success. The paper details some of Viximo’s recent experience in the space, and four keys to implementing such a campaign successfully.
Topics include:
Opportunity to Increase Goodwill
Opportunity to Convert Non-Users to Customers
Opportunity to Increase [...]
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Sprout Up is a free monthly event for forward-thinking Toronto area entrepreneurs to gather and mind-meld. This month’s event features HootSuite’s Ryan Holmes.
I mention this for a few reasons. First, I’ve been talking to Toronto-area dating sites about a special dating event being put together up north and I bet that Sprout Up would be [...]
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Yesterday I spoke with Kate Brooks, the new Director of marketing communications for Zoosk. After we got off the phone I saw this ad on Facebook. Marketing gimick or could Zoosk actually be banned from Facebook?
5 Dating Apps For People With No Shame: The Girlfriend Keeper app is essentially an automated boyfriend, developed to ensure [...]
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The Dewy Color System came up when I was looking into IntroAnalytics and VisualDNA. Speaking of compatibility, Fernando Ardenghi has finally started a blog where he will be discussing his views about online dating compatibility and matching systems. If you’ve read his hundreds of comments here over the years, you already know what the blog [...]
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Someone just turned me on to the Lady Gaga Telephone video featuring Beyonce. A certain dating site makes an appearance at 4:27. Warning, this is one weird and sexy video.
Great post from Tony Karrer, the initial acting CTO for eHarmony.
Match continues to say that they have 15 million profiles. I wish they would refer [...]
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Did you watch the Marriage Ref last night? Jerry Seinfeld’s latest show is absolutely hilarious. Larry David, Madonna and Ricky Gervais (The Office) were on the panel.
Each week on the show, celebrity guests dole out advice to husbands and wives who find themselves in stressful yet often humorous (to outsiders, anyway) conflicts with their [...]
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The HowAboutWe.Com Date Contest: Here’s the deal. Propose your best NYC date idea as a post on our Facebook Fan Page. The people (one guy, one gal) whose dates gain the most “Likes” win! And HowAboutWe.Com will pay for the winners to go on their dates for up to $150! (See details below about how [...]
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Katy says: I’m a Columbia News Service reporter interested in speaking with couples who have met offline, who have later joined dating sites to see if they would be matched up or to test the site’s claims. I’m also interested in speaking with people who won’t join established dating sites like eHarmony and Match.com, but [...]
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