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If you attended the event this week, take a moment and leave a comment with your thoughts on the event. Was it well attended? Who was there? Deals being made? Worth the time/trip/price? Curious how these “off-season” events are faring now that we’re...MySpace, The (Almost) Premier Dating Site
Read/Write Web has several posts about online dating this week. Fellow Corante blogger Ken Yarmosh says Myspace is unofficially a dating site. Link PeopleAggregator is the focus of this post. Open social networks are the future. Open profiles are coming to social...Secrets of the Sexes
Last night I came across a PBS show about relationships and immediately got hooked when they started computer modeling the “perfect” man and woman based on what each test subject thought physically desirable. Face morphing software was remarkable....World Record Speed Dating Event
PlentyOfFish is attempting to set a new speed dating world record. Over 3,000 singles have pre registered to attendthis massive speed dating event in a town of only 150,000 people. The event will be televised live and the news media will be all over the place. Cupid...Engage Attracts $5 Million
Engage, which is making a name for itself by allowing members to play matchmaker, has raised an additional $5 million in a round led by Advanced Technology Ventures and seed investors Revolution Ventures. The Founders Fund and Josh Kopleman also participated. The...Adware Comes To Myspace
BoingBoing says: MySpace users are being tricked into installing adware on their PCs through embedded video links that appear in “friend” profiles, according to several blog reports today. Clicking on the “play” button in certain videos may...Dave Chappelle: The Internet
Dave Chapelle’s take on the internet at YouTube. Funny if you like his style of humor, NSFW (not safe for work). Technorati Tags: dave+chappelleMatchActivity, Activity-Baesd Dating
GigaOM has details on activity-based matchmaker MatchActivity. I’ve worked with a few similar site in the past and remain somewhat skeptical about how the current crop of services are going to grow large enough to sustain customer acquisition costs. I use...Userplane News
Long time ODI advertiser Userplane (thanks guys!) just published their monthly newsletter. I was in a ABC pilot dating show last year and we couldn’t use Userplane because they didn’t have the moderation tools we needed for the post-show chat. Latest news...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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