Be My Ex
BeMyEx is a spoof site promoting the new movie My Super Ex Girlfriend. The intro video reminds many of the LOST tv show spoof site for the Hanso Corporation, which has been playfully hacked recently. The BeMyEx site features a fun quiz, your answers move a heart...YooMedia Reconsiders Dating Business
Interactive media group YooMedia has abandoned plans to sell its online dating business after securing £2.9m of additional funding from Mentor Marketing & Investment (MMI). Earlier this year the company revealed that it was considering spinning off its YooMedia...Jangl Raises $7M To Enter Anonymous Calling Market
Anonymous phone calling services continue their attempts to penetrate the online dating market. Jangl is the latest company to enter the niche, raising an additional $7 million from Silicon Valley firm Cardinal Venture Capital. The round included Storm Ventures and...Health-Related Dating Sites
TechCrunch is writing about online dating sites more often. Here they mention Prescription4Love, a dating site for people with diabetes, cancer, obesity, STDs and a variety of other chronic conditions. Membership is currently free and when they start charging for...Walmart Attempts Social Networking
Walmart has launched The Hub, a heavily censored, strictly monitored, squeeky-clean social networking site that doesn’t allow messaging between users and alerts parents when their child signs up for the site. I can’t imagine this is going to keep Myspace...Cleaning Up Your Dating Site Database
Dating and social networking sites spend a lot of resources on customer service reps that manually review profiles and photos. Larger sites employ sophisticated skin filters that can differentiate between a nipple and a nose, which is important for sites that have...Chemistry.com Hiring Matchmakers
Match.com is hiring a Senior Matchmaker who will be responsible for hiring and managing an entire group of matchmakers. …Interact with Chemistry VIP customers in order to find them highly qualified and well-matched dates based on each customer’s profile,...Chemistry.com First-Meeting Takes on Date Rating Sites
Chemistry.com has trademarked the venerable coffee date, calling it “First-MeetingTM.” Click the image to learn all about the four-stage guided communication process. Strange that the graphics that depict the process are not in synch with actual process...Friendster’s Patent Possibilities
Friendster’s recent attempt to patent social networking has elicited remarks from industry insiders that range from “who cares” to careful dissection of the patents’ wording. Friendster’s June 27 patent refers to a “system, method,...
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