Heavy.com Creates Online Dating Game for Fosters
Miller Brewing Co.’s Foster’s Lager is kicking off an online dating game the site is casting as a model for other marketer partnerships. The customized deal is a direct result of an “upfront” conducted by Heavy for the first time this year, and...Yahoo Invests in Indian Matrimony Service
A bunch of posts stacked up, here they come… Yahoo and Canaan Partners have invested in the BharatMatrimony Group to the tune of $8.6 million. Canaan was the first investor in Match.com in 1995. BharatMatrimony has about 3.5 million active users. In March,...When MySpace Away, Adult, Dating Sites Get Better Play
Did you know: Google gained the greatest increase in market share, as measured by page impressions, during the Myspace outage last week. Dating sites experienced a 10 percent increase and adult sites had a slight rise. Hitwise GM of Global Research Bill Tancer saw an...Online Booty Call’s Failure a Success
Online dating press releases are typically poorly written and painful to read, often appearing as if written by an investor and CTO with a superiority complex. When I read that OnlineBootyCall reached the one million member mark with only one reported marriage I did a...A Weekend AFK
I spent a few days away from the keyboard to go to an annual party in New Hampshire with friends. This year I got the wakeboarding bug, tremendous workout, boy am I sore today. Technorati Tags: wakeboardingFriendster’s New Business Model, Litigation
Lot’s of interest in the Friendster patents. Mark Brooks thinks they will come back, this time with yet another management restructure. I don’t know Kent Lindstrom, Friendster’s president and original investor/advisor, but just what is he bringing to...PlentyofFish Speed Dating Record
They are still counting registrations, but it appears that the PlentyOf Fish world record speed dating event was a success. Mark Brooks has more. Congrats to Markus, looks like it was a great event. Glad to see live events making a comeback. Take off the business hat...GoFish Launches Branded Dating Show
Video sharing site GoFish is promoting it’s online reality contest, American Dream Date, by posting footage on other video sharing sites. Jet Set energy drinks are the sponsor of the show, which is using social networking to build it’s brand. Listen to the...Celebpersonals.com
This made me very sad this morning. I barely have enough energy to be annoyed at Yahoo Personals for not answering my questions about what’s going on over there. Newly single UMA THURMAN is so desperate to get back on the dating scene she’s considering...
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