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Find Love in a Bottle

by | Marketing

Two Bordeaux-based wine wholesalers, Omnivins and Chateau en Bordeaux, are using wine bottle labels to promoting a new wine by bringing single wine lovers together via an online dating site. The concept, known as Soif du Coeur (Thirsty Heart), involves buying a 3 Euro...

Mobile Dating: IceBreaker Raises $7.2 Million

by | Mobile Dating

IceBreaker which I wrote about back in November, has landed $7.2 million in new financing, money that the Bellevue startup will use to continue marketing its mobile dating service Crush or Flush.  Crush or Flush is similar to a mobile version of HotorNot. IceBreaker...

EHarmony Stores Plenty of Romance

by | Dating Site Technology

If  networked storage, NAS and server clusters don’t do it for you, you might want to go read about Paris. Over at ARNet, Mark Douglas, vice-president of technology at eHarmony, talked about the company’s use of storage clusters, how he chooses storage...

Myspace Profiles Now Customizable

by | Uncategorized

I had to point out the irony of the latest Myspace newsletter announcing the all-new Myspace profile editor. Back in the early days, people quickly figured that a bug in the Myspace templates allowed one to change fonts colors and layouts easily, which led to the...