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Techcrunch reviews iKarma

by | Profiles & Matching

Techcrunch has a good review of iKarma. I’ve been on the site for a while now and agree with most of what they said, both the good and bad. Tagging can wait, it’s usefulness to average customer is lost. I spend a lot of time talking about tagging, and most...

Meetic IPO imminent

by | Dating Industry Finance

Marc Simoncini’s Eurpean online dating powerhouse, Meetic, next week will offer 570,387 existing shares and and issue up to 3.93 million new shares at between 19.20-22.30 euros. Meetic made a net profit of 2.7 million euros on sales of 21.3 million euros in...

Build social applications at Ning

by | Dating Site Technology

Hot on the heels of my post about remixing Web 2.0 services comes Ning. Founded by Marc Andresson (think Netscape), it’s a development tool for non-developers. Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for people to build and run...

Web2.0 dating site mashups

by | Online Dating Innovation

Every once in a while I freshen up my various profiles. New headlines, new photos, new interests, reflecting the ever-changing me. My checklist of sites to revisit goes something like this: Various dating sites Myspace, Friendster Tribe.net, Yahoo 360...