Feb ’06 Dating Site Rankings
I personally don’t pay much attention to dating and social networking site rankings. I leave that to Hitwise and Comscore. It’s Yahoo, Match, Eharmony, Spark and Friendfinder in the US. Everyone else is fighting for the free and niche eyeballs. For sure,...Plentyoffish, Simple or Ugly?
Plentyoffish got Slashdotted this week. The site received enough traffic to freeze the site intermittently as huge amounts of people visited the site from an article titled “The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites” where PoF founder Markus says he is...Metadating with Collaboradate
WIRED News has article about a new meta-dating service called Collaboradate. A few clarifications should to be made, as WIRED got some of the story incorrect. Collaborate is nothing like Trillian, which aggregates all your instant messenger accounts into a single...iDate Does BackgroundChecks
According to Mark Brooks, iDate is having a conference for background checks in San Francisco on July 13-14. No link to conference from his blog, and when I went to iDate, I don’t see a link to the event page either. Not the best way to promote an event. Besides...Open Source Dating
Opendating.org is releasing a free, open source dating site solution sometime in 2006. It’s Java-based (yuk!) Maintainer is Adam Zimowski, who better get himself out of that bar and in front of a keyboard if he hopes to offer a usable solution that can compete...Clickstream Dating
Imagine a day in the future when you or an algorithm determine who you should date based on what sites you visit and what sites your prospective dates visit. You wouldn’t even need to fill out a 500 question compatibility test. Would you really want to date someone...Personality Tests Or Collaborative Filtering
Steve Krause takes a thorough look at music recommendation systems Pandora and Last.fm. I’ve written about both before, but Steve goes a lot deeper and really plumbs the depths of the Nature vs. Nurture aspects of the two services. Give Pandora an artist or...Weekend Update
Today is another Administrivia day. I’ve been fighting off a cold, blame it on the weather this week going from 65 to 30 and back to 50. I’m cleaning office, returning phone calls and generally organizing and preparing for some exciting happenings coming...New Yahoo Messenger Coming Next Week
Andy Abramson at VoIP Watch and Om predict that Yahoo is coming out with a new version of their IM client next week. Ever since I started using Adium for most of my IM needs I haven’t missed the musty old version of Yahoo’s chat client on my Mac. That...
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