Lots of dating sites offering subscriptions and memberships to Yahoo! Personals members. Spark.com (free one-month subscription), Christian Cafe (six weeks of free membership) and Social Connect are the latest.
Survey shows why video dating isn’t taking off. Unfortunate, because there is no better way to know if you want to go out with someone on a date than watching 30 seconds of them in a video. I expect that sooner or later dating sites will try again with pre-recorded profile videos. Crowdsourcing the review of pre-recorded videos is easy with CrowdFlower.
PandaLabs uncovered a network that sells ‘bots specialized in targeting social networks and webmail systems. Prices range from $95 for the cheapest bot to $225 for the most expensive. The entire catalog can be purchased for $4,500, and the site guarantees that they will never be detected by any type of security solution, claiming they have been developed to change users, agents and headers as many times as is necessary to prevent from being blocked. Hacking dating sites has never been easier.
If thats too complicated, this Russian site says they have profiles from 170 dating sites for sale for $.01 to $.20 per profile. Perfect if are too lazy or skillful enough to get people to use your dating site andwant to waste your money filling up an empty dating site with spammers and scammers.
OKCupid My Best Look Recap: Several readers emailed that OKCupid sent them a report saying that they are in the top half of OKCupid’s most attractive users. There must be something wrong with My Best Face, because I have not received a similar correspondence. “Your new elite status comes with one important privilege: You will now see more attractive people in your match results.” Now that’s what I’m talking about.
@introAnalytics says that PicClick added Match.com as part of their visual search engine. Are they simply screen-scraping or using the official Match API?
How will Google’s Secure Search affect dating site SEO/SEM?
Digital Sky Technologies (DST) has a $200m stake in Facebook and Zynga, the makers of the popular online social game FarmVille, and acquired AOL’s messenger service, ICQ, for $188m. How long until they buy up the online dating space? Facebook is just the first step, say Russians.
JDate announced the JDate mobile application, which is not really a mobile application per se, but a web page that can be viewed on many mobile phones. Is this just for JDate or will it be available to other Spark properties?
