At one point I moved all my bookmarks to the social bookmarking service del.icio.us. They have a browser toolbar-based bookmark drop-down menu that displays my server-based bookmarks.
If the originating file is removed, I’m basically back to Google to re-find the page. I moved from del.ici.ous to Furl, which is similar but stores a copy of the page on the Furl servers. Redundant, yes, but hard drives are cheap and having a navigable storage space makes more sense. Plus, the del.icio.us user interface remains about as ugly as it gets.
I bring this up because I’ve been deep into a project and I let my desktop fill with about 100 shortcuts to interesting (or not) links sent from friends and associates. Now that the initial rush-phase of the project is winding down, it’s time to do my monthly parsing of everything I’ve held in a holding pattern.
One of the better dating-industry related links I’ve found is this market development projections from 1993- Loic Le Meur Blog: the dating industry – a closer look. If you’re working on on a dating site business plan, you need to read this, good insights into data not usually released by dating sites, including some calculations I haven’t seen before. You may want to check out the Research category as well.
