What Facebook Really Is
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has a great piece on Facebook hiring away Sheryl Sandberg from Google to run Facebook. Fake Steve explains that Facebook is an investor shell game: You have to remember what Facebook’s core business is about. It’s not about...Penthouse To File For $250 Million IPO
Penthouse Media Group, the troubled adult media company, plans to file for a $250 million IPO, the company has announced. It says it plans to file the S-1 in Q2 of this year. Penthouse acquired Various Inc. for $500 million in December 2007. Penthouse attempted an IPO...SpeedDate: No Fake Profiles
Dan Abelon (sorry for the misspelling earlier) wrote in to provide some additional information: We absolutely do not set users up with fake people. People do not respond because they are either looking at another site in another tab, or have stepped away from the...The Web Statistics Game Just Got Interesting
TNS acquired web analytics firm Compete for $75 Million – $150 Million. Tracking service Compete has been acquired by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres plc) out of London. Initial acquisition price is $75 million with an additional $75 million paid out over 2008-2010...What The Heck is Going at At Match.com?
Recently, I have been on several great dates and been deluged with emails and winks from some very cool women on Match.com. Did someone at Match optimize a database differently, tweak the search page, or are they spending more ad dollars in different ways? Whatever...Obsolete Skills
Obsolete Skills has a list, of, well you know.Mzinga Swallows Propsero
Two important deals being announced in Massachusetts today. Web analytics firm Compete was acquired, and Mzinga has acquired Prospero. Prospero’s community platform powers some of the largest social nets around. The combined company will become a market leader...Hotties Not So Hot When You’re In Love
Martie Haselton, associate professor of psychology and communication studies at UCLA, has co-authored a study with eHarmony research scientist Gian Gonzaga. The study found that asking coeds to reflect on the love they felt for their boyfriends or girlfriends blunted...A Night of Speed Dating
I’ve been videoconferencing since 1994, in fact, the original Connectix Quick Cam right here, next to my original Apple Newton and a hard drive the size of an end table. For me, text chat in an instant message window is fine for friends, but for business and...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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