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A warm welcome to our new sponsor, Dating Ad Network.
Match closed down their “match studios” service and re-opened it under the name of Match Profile Pro. You can see the ad unit if you go to “edit profile” it’s on the far left hand side of the page. It offers the same things as match [...]

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Dating site owners, time to polish up that P&L statement and start buying massive amounts of traffic. Judging by this job posting, eHarmony is gearing up for a buying spree. Good timing, I’m doing due diligence on a number of dating properties at the moment, I wonder what the parameters are for an eHarmony acquisition?
Why [...]

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Did we enjoy the Oscar’s last night? I only saw two of the movies, but I guessed right on eight of the categories. Loved the iPhone and Wii product placements.
The eHarmony PR machine wrote into mention an article about eHarmony Labs that ran on ABC News. Its the usual story, lots of marriages and 100,000 [...]

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The unofficial eHarmony blog has published the November 14 chat transcript for a conversation with J. Galen Buckwalter, Ph.D., Vice President, Research and Development at eHarmony.

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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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Eharmony CEO Greg Waldorf had an unfortunate Fox News interview this week.
The interview quickly devolved to the point where Waldorf actually said the words:
Well, we don’t specifically ask “Do you execute animals?” on eHarmony.
Classic quote.

The next quote that stuck out was:
If you think about it, there are people out there who say you can [...]

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Vacation was fantastic. 18 relatives in a rustic camp on a beautiful lake in the mountains. Re-entry is proving difficult (or I’m just feeling lazy), we’ll stick with links for this week while I get back into the swing of things.
Meetic vs. Match. France versus Texas. Top two UK sites are free, fighting for leftovers. [...]

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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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EHarmony is now offering an expanded version of their standard personality profile for $9.95. The Premium Personality Profile provides in-depth analysis of 15 critical aspects of your personality.
I dislike taking tests of any kind but enjoy reading the results, most of the time. Sometimes it’s ok not to know know your fatal flaws.
I noticed [...]

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