Online Dating Industry News 8-26-12
I’ve talked to a number of producers and casting agents for online and cable dating reality shows in the last month. Some of the ideas are decent and some of them make me want to curl up into a ball and sob about the sorry state of humanity. This just in, the...Social Launches A Digital Panopticon With An Identity Crisis
I love this non-description of what is generally considered a “people search” engine masquerading as a social site. Mirror is a new form of web interaction. It is not a social network. It is not a review site. It is not an online dating site, nor is it a...Did Badoo Acquire Stepout?
Either Badoo acquired Stepout, or Stepout took some of the $2.4M they raised in January and cloned Badoo’s business model and the display bar at the top of the page. The pay-for-points freemium access model is a bit different, with two options, chat with...The Hardest Dating Site Question Ever
Now that I’m in the process of evolving into a Vermonster, I’m changing up my profiles on various dating sites. This question on OkCupid has been in my emails from them and featured in the sidebar for weeks now. Questions about drugs and and weird...Online Dating Industry News 6-15-12
While browsing AngelList, I came across Pinstant Karma which calls itself “A pitch-perfect convergence of match.com and Pinterest that will energize the online dating segment.” With stunning visual pin boards singles can easily ‘like’ and...
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