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Match.com Ad Fail

Match has a contextual advertising system featuring “Audience Cubes,” which “give advertisers the ability to reach desirable audience segments with the accuracy and scale they demand in today’s competitive online ad space.” Imagine new...

Domain For Sale: Meet.com

Another good domain for sale, meet.com. Owner is offering url outright sale or lease, or for partnership with an existing or in-development business who is interested in this simple and memorable url. Contact meetdotcom@gmail.com.

Google Abandons Lively

Over the summer, Google launched Lively after three years of development. After four months, the project has been deemed a failure and is shutting down December 31st. I wrote about The Effect of Google?s Lively On Virtual Dating Applications, which talks about the...

Avalanche Expands Internationally

Avalanche is expanding into international markets with newly translated sites and additional payment options. Avalanche, LLC, owner of leading online dating sites Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com, announced today the first phase of the Company’s international...

Unable to Turn Off Mate1 Ambassador Email

I have 70 emails from Mate1. They are all from Mate1 “ambassadors.” Thankfully, Mate1 offers a link in their email alerts to stop receiving Online Ambassador notifications. Following the link brings you to a page that only gives you the option to...

Plentyoffbass, The Movie

Longtime readers know that I love to fish and have posted photos here of some fairly large striped bass I’ve caught over the years. I do most of my all-to-infrequent fishing on Plum Island, which is in northern Massachusetts. My friend James...

Meet Me Halfway With Meetways

Here’s an interesting idea, a site for setting up dates. Meetways.com allows a user to enter two locations and a point of interest (like a coffee shop or sushi restaurant) and then finds the exact halfway point and the types of businesses you searched for....

GreatCatch.com For Sale

As the economy continues to tank, people who have been holding on to online-dating domain names are coming out of the woodwork. Today it’s GreatCatch.com. This is one of the better domains I’ve come across. Contact sales@greatcatch.com if you’re...