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Myspace a good investment?

Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com: Venture capitalists embraced Friendster and lavished it with a $53 million market valuation, when Friendster had negligible revenue but a lot of promise. Now there’s MySpace, a very similar site to Friendster in that MySpace...

Symmetricity in compatibility

From Vladimir Savchenko @ compatti.com: After analyzing the compatibility results of 156,334 unique pairs from over 30,000 Compatti.com users using astrology we found very profound symmetricity in distribution of the compatibility scores. It was hard to ignore...

comScore October European rankings

In its first report of pan-European Internet behaviour, independent measurement firm comScore Media Metrix ranked Match.com as the leading online dating site in Europe. According to comScore data, Match.com sites drew nearly four million visitors in October, more than...

Topology of Online Dating

Andrew Draper has undertaken an interesting piece of work, analyzing the network of the most popular dating sites. Some of the numbers are off, notably Matchmaker supposed 12 million members, however I applaud his attempt at this type of analysis. Andrew says:...