The Rise of Freeconomics: PlentyOfFish and OkCupid
This month’s WIRED article by Chris Anderson (of Long Tail fame) plays directly into the business playbook for PlentyOfFish (PoF) and OKCupid. A decade and a half into the great online experiment, the last debates over free versus pay online are ending. This is...Testsonthenet Develops White Lable Personality Test
Testsonthenet was commissioned to create a relationship and compatibility test for www.uol.com.br. The test forms ‘The Heart’ of their new dating site. We have also produced, and will be officially launching shortly, a ‘whitelabel’ version for...TED2008: Helen Fisher and the Origins of Love
Ethan Zuckerman of GeekCorps fame, has a overview of Helen Fisher’s talk at TED. Helen created the personality test for Chemistry.com, Match.com answer to eHarmony. TED videos are what you watch to obliterate that box you’ve been thinking inside of for so...Jiffr: Who Needs Profiles?
A photo-browsing site Jiffr launched on Valentine’s Day. Built in a single weekend, the service is a photo-based dating service that works without words. Great if you score greater than say an 8 out of 10. Photos are pulled from your Flickr account, so you need...Peanut Labs
This reminded me of the recent decision for Avid Life Media to turn HotorNot into a market research tool. SF-based Peanut Labs, a provider of digital market research into the “Gen-Y”€Â? demographic, has raised a $3.2 million first round from Leapfrog...Womansavers
I heard from Stephany Alexander, who runs Womansavers, “World’s Largest Database Rating Men” (30,000+ men’s names, descriptions & photos entered by women, top 5% most popular women’s websites). Thankfully I don’t show up in the...Y! Personals Customizable
New features at Yahoo! Personals continue to pop up unannounced. Here we see the ability to select which information is displayed at the top of people’s profiles. I changed mine up immediately, the previously-displayed information wasn’t right for me, now...Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You
Slashdot has a great article, Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You!, written by frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton wants to make online dating better. His ideas, at least those which I was able to stay awake through, were interesting. As with Slashdot, the...Facebook Matchmaking With Cablight
Have you seen the new Facebook Cablight application? Cablight is a way to play matchmaker for your friends. You don’t have to be single to join Cablight. You can set up your friends privately so they don’t have to “friend” each other. If you...
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