Facebook continues to disappoint me with their privacy and security gaffs. With 400 million members, some problems are to be expected. Steady as she goes.
White Label Dating claims their IntroAnalytics-powered recommendation system has lowered customer terminations by 9.9% in the last month. Yay for measurable metrics.
Had a great conversation with Anju at Littlehint.com. Think Thread crossed with Engage and GenePartner. Good overview of Littlehint at TechCrunch.
Researching some ideas for a new type of dating site aggregator I came across Spindex, a Microsoft Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs project which brings you an overview of your entire social world in one page. With Spindex you can connect to Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, RSS, and Bing – with more services on the way. Communicate with your friends wherever they are. Find what’s new, what’s popular, and see personalized trending topics.
Lot’s of companies are building dashboards for our social lives. Where is the dating dashboard? I own the url if you’re interested.
Brett Harding at Lovestruck says: Lovestruck launched our Android app. Location-aware mobile dating apps are a dime a dozen these days but listen to this:
AdMob is the king of display and banner ads when it comes to mobile devices. And today it has announced a test run of geo-targeted advertising with a location-aware dating site in the UK called Lovestruck.com – and I’m sure I’m not the only person that this immediately reminded of Google’s recently awarded patent for the use of location in mobile advertising.
Via GoMo News.
Sean Wolfe, CEO of Tangowire wrote in to share the results of their free virtual dating day.
Recorded thirty times (30x) the number of virtual dates we typically see on an average day.
50% boost in same day sales with strong results continuing in the days following.
20% boost in overall new registrations showing there is real market curiosity
The initial vDate was such a success that Tangowire will be hosting a second free day very soon to introduce more members to the many advantages of virtual dating.
Did anyone in the dating industry go to the Conversion Conference this week?
The cartoon xkcd has done some research on the differences between how men and women perceive and name colors. This reminded me of the OKCupid blog posts. The web is a giant research project and we’re all the subjects.
