Create Your Profile Photos with Mypictr
I came across Mypictr while I was updating my Last.fm profile. Upload a pic, crop and resize specifically for any number of dating sites, pictured below. Updating profiles one at a time is going to be a thing of the past very soon, I’m excited to see how dating...Ex-Match.com CEO to Head Ask.com
Jim Safka has been named CEO of Ask.com effective immediately. He will oversee Ask.com’s global operations and continue in his role as CEO of Primal Ventures, a new-venture entity that identifies seeds and incubates business opportunities for IAC (NSDQ: IACI). He...Interview with PlentyofFish Founder
Markus Frind, the founder of Plentyoffish, is featured in a video interview as part of a customer stories series at Peer1. Peer1 is the PoF web hosting company. Markus writes a great blog, The Paradigm Shift, a must read for dating industry executives. Hey Markus, add...Yahoo! Personals, Egon Smola, GM Interview
OnlinePersonalsWatch has an interview with new General Manager at Yahoo! Personals. A great update as to what Y! Personals is up to and their plans for 2008. I wrote about Yahoo! Personals in October and December, both good companions to the OPW interview....Various Inc acquires Seniors.com for $1.8 Million
According to OnlinePersonalsWatch, the deal happened in December and Seniors.com is pointing to SeniorfriendFinder. $1.8 million is a lot of money for a single dating domain, that’s one of the largest domain name sales I’ve seen in the dating space. iDate...Pairing up: Couples now seek new friends online
More and more couples are turning to social networks to meet other couples. I’ve been speaking with Couplesworldwide for a while and have been watching the space, which promises to heat up in 2008. Competitors include Kupple.com and Couplets.com. Full story at...Facebook to License its Social Networking Platform
News from last month. Facebook will help other social networking sites to run applications developed for its own software platform, it said Thursday. The company already encourages developers to build applications that work with its site, publishing details of the...Attraction All-Stars Launches World’s Largest Dating Advice Websi
All-Star Dating Tips is a recently-launched website that is “The most comprehensive dating and attraction advice website the internet has ever seen.” Press Release. dating tipsSinglesnet Ads
Looks like SinglesNet is getting slapped based on their ads doing too many redirections. Details at the Federal Trade Commission Center for Democracy & Technology. Marketing, ftc
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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