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True account cancellation abuse

I’m resigning from several dating sites to see how difficult the process is and to reduce the amount of clutter in my inbox. With profiles on 10+ services, I was spending too much time managing dating site email. First up, True. No real reason but after looking...

Dress up your Friendster Profile

Friendster, with 18 million members, continues to add features to member profiles. This time it’s skins- customizable graphics and colors members can change at will. Friendster Skins let you color your Friendster world. Tough guy? Try Bad Attitude, a collection...

Understanding eHarmony traffic

This Detroit News article states that EHarmony attracted 2.7 million visitors in March, according to ComScore Media Metrix. “The site lags far behind bigger, better-known sites such as Yahoo Inc.’s Yahoo Personals, which drew 5.9 million visitors, and...

Launching a dating site

Question of the day: If you were about to launch a new dating site, how would you go about seeding your database with profiles? Is there a CD of fake profiles out there you can buy? The pr0n industry has offered content CD’s for years. $500 and your site is...

FriendFinder launches blogs

Taking the lead in the industry, FriendFinder has announced they have launched blogs for their members. You can now post your own Weblog, or “blog,” on FriendFinder to let everyone know about your day-to-day life, or you can just post some random thoughts...

Site Review: Consumating

Ben Brown is the co-creator of Consumating. Ben lives in Austin, TX, works as a technology consultant by day, and rolls out new features on Consumating at night. Ben’s co-creator is adam, now a product manager for [company nameremoved]. Consumating started, as...