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As the peak internet dating season approaches, Plentyoffish continues to trounce the free dating site competition. In the international arena, 7.2 million people in the UK visited the worlds largest free dating site in October, as opposed to 4.3 million and 2.1 million for Meetic and Match, respectively.
The press release I received states that a [...]

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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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OK Cupid’s Sam Yagan Boston Globe Interview. Great backstory.
Four questions to Alex Panelli, CEO, Trilibis Mobile:
We recently launched MatchMobile in partnership with Match.com. The original launch included availability of a fully integrated mobile dating service in the US, UK and Canada. We will be deploying the service in additional 9 markets (and 9 languages) by [...]

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Plentyoffish has officially launched a relationship needs assessment feature. I believe this is the feature I wrote about back in May in a post titled PlentyofFish Is Now EChemistry.com. I had to re-read the title twice. Funny choice of words.
The Relationship Needs Assessment determines in great detail a person’s overt and hidden needs in [...]

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Markus at Plentyoffish has a great interview on the Today Show.
Userplane Money is now available to anyone developing applications for Facebook. The move enables developers to earn money with the widgets they make available to users of Facebook.
Just what do search marketing and dating have in common? According to Seth Godin, the keynote speaker [...]

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Why is it that when I’m busy with work that things in the dating industry tend to happen and people like Markus and Mark Brooks scoop me?
Markus on the Winds of Change (older post but good)
Zencon, owner of blackpeoplemeet.com, has been sold.
Markus on the Today Show, in the Wall Street Journal and Businessweek, he is [...]

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I couldn’t improve on that classic headline in today’s Wall Street Journal article about PlentyofFish.
Reporter Lee Comes calls PlentyofFish a “model for the next generation of Web entrepreneurship.” He actually travelled to PoF world headquarters, which is Markus’s spare bedroom. At one point during the visit, 43,000 people were at PlentyOfFish, with 500 Web pages [...]

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My comments on Markus commenting on PlentyOfFish Changing Direction.
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Hot on the heels of my comment that the bright spotlight focusing on PlentyOfFish won’t last forever, come word from Markus Frind that PlentyOfFish is changing direction.
Commenter Mike says:
If you can figure out how to remove the stigma of “if I join an online dating site, I’m gonna have to deal with all the [...]

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