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100 Terabytes of eHarmony

Eharmony’s data storage needs have grown from 1 terabyte to 100 TB in just two years. To master its storage needs, eHarmony went with iSCSI wherever it could, fibre-channel where it needed it, using a utility storage approach with NAS gateways and high-end...

E-Harmony Discriminates Against Short Men

Is this for real? The National Organization of Short Statured Adults? The National Organization Of Short Statured Adults is in receipt of numerous complaints regarding the internet based website EHARMONY.COM, 300 N. Lake Avenue Ste, 1111 Pasadena, CA 91101 USA. The...

Lonelybloggers.com For Sale

A few weeks ago I spoke with Jeff from LonelyBloggers.com. Since then, Jeff has put LB up for sale. The asking price is $20,000. If they have no takers, the site will be auctioned off. Details at Mashable.

JDate Raises Prices

On April 26, a one month subscription to try and meet your match on JDate is going to set you back an almost eHarmony-level $39.95, and you don’t even get to answer 436 questions. As a result, you have until midnight Wednesday, April 25, to lock-in JDate’s...

New UK Match.com Director

Match has appointed Jason Stockwood to head up commercial development at Match and uDate in the UK. Jason comes from Travelocity, where he was a Managing Director since October of 2005. Congrats to Jason, looking forward to seeing the new channels Match is supposedly...

The Rise of Multimedia Dating Profiles

Over the years, dating sites like Match.com have toyed with audio and video on profiles. Impediments included the need for special infrastructure, i.e special phone numbers to call into, or developing applications to record low quality video from sub megapixel...

Dating Sites: Look for Blue Oceans

 Eric Klaassen is an expert on online dating from The Netherlands. Eric  translated a thought-provoking article he wrote about dating site strategy, which I have reposted with his permission. The market for online dating sites can be compared to a red ocean. The...

Busy Week Catching Up

It’s been a busy week: tax season upon us, the girlfriend back from a month in Australia and several projects all coming due at the same time, with new ones starting up. Regular posting will resume next week. In the meantime, some links: New York Times on online...

Links for 4/6/07

Job of the Week: Durex, maker of fine prophylactics, is looking for condom testers. Guys, please don’t crash their servers. Via Everyone’s Guide to Online Dating. Simulating Dating: Nintendo’s Days of Memories dating simulator “is a collection...