I just had a great conversation with the Down to Earth team. Down to Earth is the new Match.com free dating site. It will take a few days to process everything, will have something up next week. I also have a ton of information from my talk with Match over the holidays which will be up soon.
Talked to Userplane this week as well. Some of the team will be at iDate, but no huge party like last year, recession, ugh!
Any business that isn’t learning from their users doesn’t want to learn from their users. How Meetup performs user testing daily.
The word of the day is Tesla — “time elapsed since labs attended” — a measure of how long it’s been since a company’s decision-makers (not help desk) last saw a real user dealing with their product or service
Canal Winchester technology consultant iBeam Solutions Inc. has closed a deal to buy a New York online dating service. IBeam parent iB3 Networks Inc. recently completed the deal for NYC Mags Inc., the owner of Web site MadisonAvenueMatch.com. The startup Internet dating service, which will target New York professionals, is in the development stage and set to launch in the first quarter of 2009.
Are Stolen Facebook Profiles the New Hot Commodity?
Regarding Match using TrialPay as a lead generation mechanism: Many publishers of applications also gravitate towards this monetization avenue. Offerpal and Super Rewards are busy working with Facebook applications. Some applications developers have been running experiments and it turns out the conversion rates are comparable to other forms of display advertising.
Online dating serves as an analogy for the intended goal of many museum forays into the social Web.
I saw Slumdog Millionaire last night, highly recommended.
