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It’s been fun watching everyone I know starting to move over to Facebook ever since the new Facebook Platform launched several weeks ago. The great rush to Myspace is over and I’m never going back.
I’ve installed the Firefox Facebook Toolbar, which keeps be going back to Facebook far more often than if I only had [...]

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Talk about annoying. Match demands non-members subscribe for the privilege of viewing profiles. I had to create a fake member and give them my phone number, but the link that explains the phone number never popped up. I bet it was for the Concierge service, but how annoying is that?

Then, when I went to sign [...]

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JLove, the Jewish dating site formed by ex-JDate executives, is now available in Hebrew, French, Russian, Dutch, Spanish and German. To showcase these languages, JLove has created a toolbar along the top of the homepage.
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Facebook Gifts: Pushing the limits of rationality:

Yesterday I spoke with Bill Snow at BuyMyAffection. Bill thought I was really upset with him, and we proceeded to hash out the details and talk in more detail how his service operates and the vale to dating sites and singles.
Men buying stuff for women to win or keep [...]

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A new company called Buy My Affection contacted me to see if I was interested in learning more about their service, which boils down to men buying women presents in order to get the women to go out with them.
This kind of opportunistic commerce, especially when it comes to preying on people’s vulnerabilities, raises my [...]

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I like how Classmates has added further customization of profile pages, including the ability to create new pages featuring blogs, photo galleries and articles. If they can do it with hundreds of thousands (millions?) of members, what’s holding back dating sites from offering the same features? Most social nets offer some sort of customizability and [...]

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PerfectMatch announced it has partnered with Be Better Guys to provide lifestyle advice to it’s male members.
BeBetterGuys brings its expertise in men’s fashion, grooming, dating, and etiquette directly to Perfectmatch’s more than four million members. The BeBetterGuys “Game Planâ€? provides a nuts-and-bolts how-to approach guide to help Perfectmatch’s male membership prepare for, and enjoy, a [...]

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Have you seen the new Match Platinum service? Real live humans will search, qualify and narrow the field from the “largest circle of deeply impressive women and men ever assembled.� There must be a new copywriter at Match. The copy is, ahem, a bit over the top, even for a premium service.
Interesting that one [...]

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At this past weekend’s annual meeting of the American Economic Association borrowed from online dating - to more efficiently match job candidates and potential employers. It is called “€œsignalingâ€?,€Â? and it is designed to reduce the time and cost of hiring professors by weeding out those who aren’t serious prospects and homing in on those [...]

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