Woo, Omni or Speed?
OmniDate is getting some heavy PR after they redesigned the site. WooMe just got $12 million to make video introductions and SpeedDate continues to grow in popularity. Will people prefer Flash-based avatars from Omnidate, live video conversations from WooMe or...Where have all the Dating Startups Gone?
Recently I moved my email from one Gmail account to another. It was fascinating and a royal PITA to move 55,000 messages, but when all was said and done I learned a lot about what I’ve been paying attention to the last few years and amazed at how many dating...Weeky Online Dating Wrapup June 20, 2008
I finally got around to installing a real ad serving platform for the blog. I’ll be able to share better stats with advertisers from here on out. If you’re interesting in sponsoring Online Dating Insider, contact me. Nicolas B., you contacted me but forgot...Matchmaker in Fortune Magazine
Matchmaker Janis Spindel is featured in this month’s Fortune Magazine. Male clients pay $50,000 + marriage bonus and Spindel has a database of 12,000 women. 1,000 relationships, 800 marriages an zero divorces. That’s an amazing track record and I’m...Match Testimonials, Popular?
My Match testimonial us up. I understand now why I see so few testimonials on Match. Getting friends to write something is like pulling teeth, similar to getting a testimonial on LinkedIn. I’ll let you know if I notice a difference. Match needs to fix the email...Eharmony makes traffic stats public
Markus says that eHarmony joined Quantcast and dug up the following: 4,101,913 uniques in the US last month 237,550 uniques in canada last month 34,289 uniques from Ghana (scammers) 19,743 uniques from the UK Nice job sleuthing. More details at the Paradigm...Match.com Partners with Virgin
Taking a page out of the SouthWest playbook, Virgin America has partnered with Match.com to bring singles aboard the airline’s “SuperFly” Wednesday night series for an evening of social networking and fun. Bob Guiney formerly of “The...OKCupid Gets All HelloQuizzy
OkCupid has launched a new website called HelloQuizzy, which is squirming its way out of our womb and into public beta (their words, not mine.) HelloQuizzy will: Enable third-party websites to integrate quizzes. Drive traffic back to OkCupid. Be the internal engine...Dating & Discovery Services Raising Big Bucks
Two big fundraising events in the past week have occurred. First, online videochat service WooMe has raised $12.5 Million. That’s an enormous amount of money for a videochat site, but after having a conversation with CEO Stephen Stokols I’m pretty...
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