Dating sites are taking a liking to Twitter. Jazzed and SpeedDate have official Promoted Accounts. It looks like these cost at least $5,000 a month in advertising dollars. Tweeting is great for customer service, wonder how many new memberships they drive?
This does not bode well for anonymous emailers. Identifying ‘anonymous’ email authors – NOW – Concordia University. Testing occurred on the Enron Email Dataset, a collection which contains over 200,000 real-life emails from 158 employees of the Enron Corporation. Using a sample of 10 emails written by each of 10 subjects (100 emails in all), they were able to identify authorship with an accuracy of 80% to 90%.
TangoWire Partners with Messmo, and Messages Can Reach Any Member on Any Mobile Device Using Unique Anonymous Cell Numbers. iFollowText Messaging System Extends Mobile Dating to Every Mobile Device.
GroupMe Has Group Texting by Cellphone for ‘The Normals’ at South by Southwest . How long until this sort of functionality makes its way into dating? I prefer user-controlled broadcast apps. Assisted Serendipity is the best I’ve seen, although I heard from eFlirtExpert that Grindr announced a social mobile service at SXSW called Project Amicus.
Grindr CEO Joel Simkhai spoke at the yearly tech and music confab last week. The topic? “Online Dating 2.0: All Mobile, All Location-Based”, of course. Grindr and the gays understood the power of mobile hookups early on and the company has capitalized on the early lead. but how will the rest of the dating world react? We’ll know soon enough, beta invites are coming.
Evan Katz is one heck of a dating coach. He’s looking for an intern for his blog. Think you have what it takes? Talk to Evan.
Matchlatinoamerica’s YouTube Channel. Some nice commercials. I prefer Louis CK – Single People (NSFW).
