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Compete Takes On Alexa

by | Marketing

Read/Write Web announced that Compete, a company formed in 2000 by Bill Gross of Overture fame, has quietly released a new search engine and at the same time opened up some of its analytics data to the public. Read the full write-up if you have been following the...

Million of Junk Profiles for Sale

by | Uncategorized

I’ve received a handful of duplicate emails from a company I’m not going to mention, promoting their cheap dating sites and huge profile database. Why bother building your database the hard way? Just buy a CD of unreliable profiles. Great business...

Monday 11-6-2006 Links

by | Dating Research

Someone sent me this link to a Web 2.0 event where FriendFinder CEO Andrew Conru does a presentation titled “what can we learn from the adult industry.” I’m posting this because some people argued that I called Friend Finder network...

How Many Singles in Your Area Code?

by | Marketing

I haven’t been able to post images to blog entries for a few days. All of a sudden it works again, and then it doesn’t. Perplexing. Here we have part of the SecondLife login screen. Notice the Total Residents, and the Logged In Last 60 Days number. Notice...

How Many Paid Subscriptions?

by | Dating Research

Interesting tidbit: Match CEO Jim Safka says there are 90 million people over age 18 who are single in the United States and actively looking for a relationship, yet only 3 million people actively subscribe to any kind of Internet matchmaking service. I’m...