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The giant pulsating brains over at OKCupid have launched a new site which promises short-notice blind dates.
Crazy Blind Date is a place where you can coordinate a date on extremely short notice. Online dating sites are cool but sometimes you just want to go out immediately, with reckless abandon. We understand it’s not for [...]

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The unofficial Harmony blog is back up. Highlights of what’s happened at eHarmony since May. I did not know about the “Show Hidden Photoâ€? hack that was finally patched.

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The FriendFinder Network has launched a millionaire matching site called Millionairemate.com.
The purpose of the MillionaireMate site is to make it as easy as possible for you to meet ambitious, successful people, using the power of the Internet. At MillionaireMate, you’ll find a community of people using the site as a tool to make connections [...]

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Many moons ago I had a long conversation with Anna Zornosa, head of Yahoo! Personals. Anna, for those of you who don’t know, was CMO at Knight Ridder Digital until November 2005 where she was in charge of crafting digital strategies. Prior to KRD she was the CEO of Topica and Sr. VP at Women.com. [...]

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Now here’s a concept I can get behind. BuyYourFriendADrink.com (BYFAD), the leading online social gift service for buying drinks in bars and restaurants, has partnered with HurryDate to integrate BYFAD’s drink gifting technology and service within HurryDate’s dynamic online dating environment, exclusive to the New York and Boston markets.
A novel idea, after all, who doesn’t [...]

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I was quoted in an article about the Playboy deal with Lavalife.
Adweek onThe Peeq:
A sexy community where like-minded adults learn from and contribute to a shared philosophy that dares us to explore the quirky, humorous, embarrassing and sublime sides of sex.
Robert X. Cringely gets lightly roasted for his depiction of Quechup.com.
UK dating site First Move [...]

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Recent PaidContent post about the major Yahoo! reorganization mentions that Anna Zornosa will continue to lead Yahoo! Personals. Three cheers for corporate stability, the last thing Y! Personals needs is a new GM. Have you seen the changes to the site that have occurred over the past few months? I’m amazed they don’t announce these [...]

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AOL Latino and TRUE.com are launching a new dating and relationship area called Amor y Amistad (Love and Friendship). AOL Latino users will have to shell out $59.95 a month for the priviledge of belonging to “the leading scientifically based online dating site.”
Sources tell me that True has a new background check provider and a [...]

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Time Magazine has named eharmony.com one of the top five worst sites on the web. Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark.
Personality profiling will be front and center in coming months.
Markus gets it right, the Chemistry.com “Rejected” anti-eHarmony campaign initiated the investigation into eHarmony’s exclusionary practices (if reporters copying what other reporters say without [...]

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