I’m back from family wedding this weekend. My aunt got married at 65 after using several online dating services the past few years and it was the groom’s first marriage, at 65. See, this online dating stuff works if you work it.
A couple of stories to get the week started.
AmericanSingles®.com’s consolidates affiliate programs at Commission Junction.
To make things easier, Spark Networks Limited ® has rolled all of its CJ ccounts
into one. Now you can promote AmericanSingles.com, BlackSingles.com ®,
ChristianMingle®.com, Date.ca ®, and JDate®.com all from the same program.IMPORTANT: After December 31, 2007, Commission Junction will disable the links!
The Match.com instant message feature all of a sudden started to work on my Mac? Was something changed? I haven’t seen the feature in years.
Veridate Offers Background Checks For Dating Sites
Veridate has launched a new identity verification service that is marketed directly to the end-user and can be used across a variety of dating sites.
More at Online Personals Watch.
Check out the AmateurMatch Terms Of Service.
You understand, acknowledge, and agree that some of the user profiles posted on this site may be fictitious, and are associated with to our “Online CupidsTM”.
Our OC’s work for the site in an effort to stimulate conversation with users, in order to encourage further and broader participation in all of our site’s services, including the posting of additional information and/or pictures to the users’ profiles.
You understand, acknowledge, and agree that the information, text, and pictures continued in the OC’s profiles do not pertain to any actual person, but are included for entertainment purposes only
You further understand, acknowledge, and agree that, from time-to-time, OC’s may contact both free users and paid users via computer-generated Instant Messages or emails for purposes of encouraging further or broader participation in our site’s services and/or to monitor user activity.
The ridiculous verbiage just goes on and on. It’s amazing that a company can get away with this sort of behavior. Thanks to the dating executive that pointed this out.
Another dating executive sent the following:
Spark Network Services (some mobile provider) has patent 6272467 and they are going around trying to extort money from everyone. Yahoo settled on the 5th.
I briefly checked out Ourlikes.com, “Meet people that share your interests.”
Ourlikes.com was founded on the belief that it shouldn’t be that difficult to find people with similar interests. At Ourlikes.com, we allow people to rate specific images, which represent interests, such as books, brands, celebrities, food, general interests, magazines, movies, music, places, politics, sports, television, etc. These are items that describe our actual interests, and the best part is that our members can upload their own images, representing their true interests, so that others can rate those particular images.
I’ve always been a proponent of using brands and bands to give people a better idea about our personalities and interests. Ourlikes takes this to the logical next step.
Militarydating.com looks like a good place for soliders and the people that just love a wo/man in uniform.
Paird is an online dating site that enables you to take part in matchmaking by simply visiting the site and matching men to women or women to men. Found via Somewhat Frank. Reminds me of Engage.com (previous client), which leverages matchmakers to connect site members. Engage has a large war chest and a fantastic profiling system, not sure if Paired has a chance, being so simplistic, there is really nothing to do on the site.
uRadiate looks exactly like Paird, but with actual features.
