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Tuesday 4-18-06 Update

A nice Boston Marathon yesterday, capping off a great weekend. After shedding it’s dating businesses, Think Partnerships is out of the dating game. To celebrate, they went out and bought IceRocket, a blog search engine. IceRocket is owned by Mark Cuban, owner of...

2006 Dating Industry Study Available

This new home for this page is here. John LaRosa of Marketdata publishes the only in-depth study of “The U.S. Dating Services Market.” His newest addition, dated April 2006, is now available. I’ve sold a lot of the last version to everyone from...

Userplane On 100k Websites

Userplane sent out new stats for their communications suite. (Userplane is a long-time sponsor of ODI). 40 million, 60 million live conversations between users in 20 countries each month. The company is adding 5,000 new communities to its roster each week Ad network...

LoveEnsure

Found this on Craigslist, company is trying to compete with Eharmony. I just got off the phone with Eharmony’s PR firm, expect more info on the status of the company shortly. COMPANY DESCRIPTION: LoveEnsureâ„¢ (Relationship Technologies LLC): LoveEnsureâ„¢ is a...

Shakeup at Eharmony

Jaynie M. Studenmund, President and Chief Executive Officer, has stepped down after less than three months on the job. Previously she was the COO. Board member Gregory Waldorf has assumed the role of chief executive officer. Studenmund will retain her position on the...

Today’s Links

Innovate Don’t Imitate: Read this while reading GigaOM about all of the VOIP clients being dusted off/launched to compete with Skype. Competition is good for innovation. Dating sites, are you listening? SkypeWeb mentions Verbdate again. Verbdate uses Skype to...