Eharmony’s Lazy Lawyers
Eharmony is being sued for $12,000 by a guy who tried to sign up for the service when he was legally separated but not technically divorced for another two months, a no-no according to the popular relationship service. Take a look at the fine print on Harmony’s...Linden Lab Raises $11 Million
According to SiliconBeat, Linden Labs, creator of SecondLife, have raised an additional $11 million in venture capital, led by Globespan Capital Partners. Yesterday Dave Weiner and Robert Scoble were talking about SecondLife, the popular online environment where...Opinity Update
Online reputation and identity management company Opinity has announced new features including data importing, customized profile pages and blogger tools. I talked to them last year when they first launched the site and it’s nice to see them adding features....Meetic 2005 Financial Results
My new German dating blogger friend Dirk sent me this PDF of Meetic’s 4Q 05 financials. Operating profile up 118% to $9.2 million Euros, net profile up 110% to $8.2 million. This growth and the $83 IPO have put Meetic in a good place to continue growth....Defining Online Dating Success
Mark Brooks took a stab at measuring the success of online dating. I’ve talked about this before. He asked for comments so here they are: The number is far north of 20 million online daters unless he is limiting his exercise to the US. Include percentages as...Nielsen Tracking box
Here is a photo of the Nielsen television habit tracking box. They break into your cable and satellite box, add some wires, patch into your phone line and then take off, leaving you with what looks like a remote control from 1973. As much as we complain about the...Yahoo Messenger Takes on Skype
As I just mentioned, Lavalife has integrated Skype with their dating platform. Now we have Yahoo launching serious competition for Skype, which brings up a question that is bogging down hundreds of business plans, how to decide which VOIP-enabled messenger client to...Lavalife World Chat
Lavalife has integrated Skype into what they are calling Lavalife World Chat, which is in beta. This is the first large dating site to integrate VOIP and starts a trend we can only hope continues to grow. From Skype Blog: The idea is this — you call in and record a...Think Partnership Sells Dating Subsidiaries
Think Partnership (formerly CGI Holding Corporation) will sell it’s online dating and education holdings to Mountains West Exploration. Sale includes $21M in cash an $9m in common stock. Think purchased Vintacom Media Group in April 2005 along with the Real...
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