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Feb ’06 Dating Site Rankings

by | Marketing

I personally don’t pay much attention to dating and social networking site rankings. I leave that to Hitwise and Comscore. It’s Yahoo, Match, Eharmony, Spark and Friendfinder in the US. Everyone else is fighting for the free and niche eyeballs. For sure,...

Plentyoffish, Simple or Ugly?

by | Dating Sites & Startups

Plentyoffish got Slashdotted this week. The site received enough traffic to freeze the site intermittently as huge amounts of people visited the site from an article titled “The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites” where PoF founder Markus says he is...

Metadating with Collaboradate

by | Online Dating Innovation

WIRED News has article about a new meta-dating service called Collaboradate. A few clarifications should to be made, as WIRED got some of the story incorrect. Collaborate is nothing like Trillian, which aggregates all your instant messenger accounts into a single...

iDate Does BackgroundChecks

by | Dating Safety

According to Mark Brooks, iDate is having a conference for background checks in San Francisco on July 13-14. No link to conference from his blog, and when I went to iDate, I don’t see a link to the event page either. Not the best way to promote an event. Besides...

Open Source Dating

by | Dating Site Technology

Opendating.org is releasing a free, open source dating site solution sometime in 2006. It’s Java-based (yuk!) Maintainer is Adam Zimowski, who better get himself out of that bar and in front of a keyboard if he hopes to offer a usable solution that can compete...