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Date.com celebrated its 10th Year Anniversary on Valentine’s Day. Congrats to Meir, Chris and the gang in Miami and Toronto. Date is a favorite client and I’m excited about the future of the company.
Ten years go to the day, Date.com was launched offering visitors a free online dating trial and since then, thousands of singles [...]
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I received an email from 15minutedate.com. It’s a blind date, scheduled for Sunday night at 12 am. Who schedules a meeting then?
All the site says is “Match ID 42�. Waiting for me to confirm.
Why would I stay up until midnight to have a videochat with what at this time I would categorize as a [...]
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And here I thought eHarmony was going to launch in Europe first. Turns out Canada is the latest in Eharmony’s expansion plans. Check out eharmony.ca. I bet Markus is quaking in his boots.
Eharmony recently launched eHarmonyLabs, a commercial research organization dedicated to the study of human relationships. eHarmony said the new lab will research relationships [...]
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Markus quotes IAC Barry Diller:
On social networking: Match.com is our play in social networking…a pure social network site–not that they are of value–no one has yet proved it is the easiest advertising medium. Pure social network is an upgrade from the princess telephone teenagers used to talk on for hours and hours. I do think, [...]
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15minuteDate.com is a new free dating and social networking service provided for busy singles that just don’t have time to date and for those who are just too shy to make the first move. By using our service, users will be matched up with a potential blind date based on their profile information in a [...]
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I had a chuckle this morning when I saw that Markus says that HotorNot competed with OkCupid. He thinks HotOrNot will move to a hybrid YouTube/dating model. Bizarre that they are shutting down HotOrNot, $5 million revenue for 5 people, but then again, they have to do something, their traffic appears to be tanking.
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Eharmony needs a Product Manager and a Java/J2EE Developer to work on an emerging eHarmony service. I’m not sure what exactly the service is, let the rumors begin the the comments.
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Open markets are good and I believe everyone should have the opportunity to succeed.
That said, there are too many broken, poorly designed, sad excuses for dating sites out there. I would like to take most of them behind the shed and put them out of their misery because they make my job harder.
The initial *perceived* [...]
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Mingles, a dating site I’ve never heard of, has ended it’s Commission Junction affiliation. No word if this was voluntary or they were kicked.
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