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Match.com Update

by David Evans on February 13, 2008   in Dating Sites

Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]

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Match.com Executive Shuffle Continues

by David Evans on September 12, 2007   in Jobs

Chemistry.com PR head Tina Couch has left the building. I enjoyed working with Tina and her team on the chemistry.com blog project earlier this year. Best of luck to Tina in her new endeavors.
Think you have what it takes to jump into the battle with eHarmony? Chemistry.com PR Director auditions are now open.
Speaking of PR, [...]

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Match Photo Censorship

by David Evans on August 10, 2007   in Profiles

Check out the error message I caught on Match. “This persons picture is too sexy to display.” I’ve never seen this before.

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Interview: CCube

by David Evans on May 30, 2007   in Anonymous Calling, Social Networking

There are scores of companies focused on connecting people on the Internet. But what about people without computers, or prefer to communicate by phone?
Ccube, in Cupertino, CA, is making it easier for billions of people without computers to communicate. To use the CCube Service, one only needs a phone. after a brief web-based signup [...]

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Animated Match Ads a Spoof?

by David Evans on May 15, 2007   in Marketing

Match gets animated, via Adrants. I think these ads must be a hoax, they are insane. Reminds me of a Tim Burton film.
In the more-sane department, Match CEO blog has photos from the “Rejected” commercial shoot.

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Links for 5/2/07

by David Evans on May 2, 2007   in Uncategorized

Jangl on TypePad, and Tagged.com. Jangle is blowing up, is Myspace intergration next?
Microsoft and Match partner. MS to offer Instant Messaging capabilities to Match members. Hopefully this works better than the old Match chat app which was rendered mute by everyone’s pop-up ad blockers.
Chemistry.com: Come as you are.
eharmony chooses Strongmail. Why is most of [...]

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Match.com Gets New CEO

by David Evans on April 24, 2007   in Jobs

Match.com has announced that CEO Jim Safka has stepped down. Current Match Chief Operating Officer, Thomas Enraght-Moony will assume the title of Chief Executive Officer.
Safka was with Match for a little over 2.5 years. Enraght-Moony joined Match in November 2004 as senior vice president and general manager of North America before becoming COO in [...]

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Busy Week Catching Up

by David Evans on April 13, 2007   in Startups

It’s been a busy week: tax season upon us, the girlfriend back from a month in Australia and several projects all coming due at the same time, with new ones starting up. Regular posting will resume next week.
In the meantime, some links:
New York Times on online and speed dating. Interesting reports of online dating behaviror.
Adrants [...]

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Links for 4/6/07

by David Evans on April 6, 2007   in Uncategorized

Job of the Week: Durex, maker of fine prophylactics, is looking for condom testers. Guys, please don’t crash their servers. Via Everyone’s Guide to Online Dating.
Simulating Dating: Nintendo’s Days of Memories dating simulator “is a collection of love simualtor games pitting players against ladies with slighty enlarged features in a bid to score through [...]

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