How About We… Write A Book?
Chiara Atik, HowAboutWe’s resident dating blogger has written a book, Modern Dating. Offers advice on a range of topics, from how to send a relatively unembarrassing sext to how to make sure you’re getting into a relationship for the right reasons. It will...IAC Finished With US Dating Site Acquisitions
Reading through Greg Blatt’s comments about Match.com’s financials. Some great stuff here. We’ve now cracked the 3 million subscriber mark for the first time. That’s more than double what it was just 4 years ago. … I think it’s...The Science of Friendship
The Science of Friendship Project is an ongoing, research-driven organization focused on understanding multidimensional aspects of friendship. Check out the Science of Friendship blog and the report (PDF).Two Sides of The Sugar Daddy Debate
Snap Interactive Q1 2013 Financials
SNAP Interactive, makers of Are You Interested, released financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Top line: Numbers down across the board. Revenue down 40% from same time last year, in part due to reduced ad spend. Bookings, which I don’t see on a lot of...Match.com Reports Q1 2013 Results
Match continue to heading towards the magic number of a billion dollars a year in revenue. Nice to see Meetic post a gain and look at the number of paid subs in their Developing market, up 45%. Revenue up 8% to $188.9M from $174.3M. Core, Meetic and Developing revenue...OkCupid’s Tallygram Experiment Shutting Down
In other OkCupid news, they are shutting down Tallygram on May 15. I liked the service for a few days, then got bored with it because the discovery and surfacing aspect was non-existant. A nicely designed site that nobody used because they put zero effort into...OKCupid Accepts Bitcoin
Lot’s of discussion about Bitcoin lately. WordPress.com and several other companies accept the digital currency, and now OkCupid accepts BitCoins as well. I’ve been mining Bitcoins on my laptop for a few weeks. At this rate, I’ll have $.000002 cents...Facebook’s Graph Search Awkward For Dating
Business Insider article I contributed to: Facebook’s Graph Search Would Make Online Dating Unbearably Awkward. Couple of choice quotes. Sam Yagan, CEO of both OkCupid & Match.com said, “I used graph search and it showed me people who meet my criteria...
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