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Great, now Facebook thinks I’m gay. Sure, I have metro-sexual tendencies (skin and hair products, expensive jeans), but how could they screw that up? Hopefully it’s a short-term bug. Is there any way that this mis-identification can be seen or propagate into my news feed or other applications?That would be a problem, to put it [...]

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I’m putting together a list of Facebook dating applications. If you created one, use one that you like, or have invested in a company that is/has built one, leave a comment and I’ll include the application.
I’m doing this because Facebook doesn’t do a good enough job categorizing applications and with more than 1,000 in the [...]

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I finally got around to installing Match.com’s Little black Book Facebook application. I thought it was going to be a welcome respite after doing 7 interviews in a row today.
The opening screen wasn’t very inviting (see blank screenshot), and on the next page, when I invited a bunch of people to the application, I [...]

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I created a group for this blog called Online Dating Insider on Facebook. I’m going to throw a few dollars at the Facebook ad network and see how it performs. Please join the group and we’ll see where it goes.
My business cards finally came today. A week late for the conference, but I love [...]

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SNAP Interactive (formerly eTwine Holdings), reported $388,000 in revenue for their fourth quarter, which was up from $35,383 in the third. They attribute the growth to their applications: “Are You Interested� finished December with 5.2 million users, while “Meet New People� claims 350,000. Thus, it can be determined that each user was worth about 7 [...]

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I was reading Steve Rubel’s post about yet another Internet bubble about to burst, which led me to this article that says Plentyoffish.com is worth $1 billion according to it’s founder.
POF being valued at one billion dollars? Not a chance. Hundreds of millions? Definitely.
Markus, owner of Plentyoffish, recently  spoke with Read/WriteWeb:
But the crux of Markus’ [...]

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Big news, Microsoft paying $240 million for a sliver of Facebook, 1.6% to be precise. What does this mean to the user? Not much, It’s just corporations doing business with each other.
Google has a $900 million ad revenue sharing deal with Myspace. Microsoft gets same along with with equity in Facebook. Don’t forget, the two [...]

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Check out this SinglesNet ad on Facebook. Totally tricked me into thinking it was one of those “how to score with women” e-books. I’m all for experimenting with new types of advertising but this doesn’t sit right with me. Then again, they are probably getting a ton of traffic from it.

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When I find interesting links I add them to my Delicious bookmarking account, http://del.icio.us/relaxedguy.
I bookmark dating-related links into Delicious as well. You can keep up with what I’m reading every week by clicking Bookmarked Dating Industry News and Stories in the sidebar. You can even subscribe to my links on Delicious and they will show [...]

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