Great Hill Buys Minority in Spark
Rafat Ali at Paid Content says that Great Hill Partners, the Boston-based PE firm which bought IGN in 2003, and then made a killing selling it to Fox, has bought a 20 percent stake in online dating network company Spark Networks (operator of JDate.com, among others)....Singles Podcast Network show #3
Rich Gosse and I did another podcast at the Singles Podcast Network. This week’s topics are the Match.com lawsuits, active # of profiles on dating sites, Russian Bride scams, writing a great personal ad with ProfileDoctor, Handwritingprofiles.com, and what are...Friendster’s ‘Eww’ Moment
The WSJ (sub req’d) has an article by Jessica Mintz about the implications of the “Who’s Viewed Me” feature on Friendster. The article depicts the sensitive nature of the increased transparency afforded by new features that expose our viewing...Match.com gets members tagging
The lumbering juggernaut we like to call Match.com has added tagging to profiles. Except they call them MatchWordsTM. Go, go metadata! I was wondering how long it would take for a major dating site to get with the tagging program. One small, problem, the tags are...CNET buys Consumating.com
What a day for the online dating industry. First Think, now Consumating.com announces a deal with CNET. Over the past few months I’ve written and talked a lot about Consumating. The site caught my eye due to the use of dynamic profiles, tagging and other...Think Partnership completes Vintacom Acquisition
Think Partnership (CGI Holding Corporation) is a cross between Barry Diller’s IAC and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive. Today Think has announced additional acquisitions, finished the Vintacom deal and added a high-power executive to the team. Think has...Myspace in UK, China 2006
PaidContent: MySpace.com is already available around globally but its formal localized expansion efforts will start in 1Q06 in the UL followed by China in the second quarter. [tags: myspace]Site updates
Now that comments seem to be working again, I’ve added a few new features. News: Your search for a single authoritative source of dating industry news is finally over. A visit the News link in the left sidebar will bring you to a new page here at Online Dating...Online Dating Magazine Interview
Joe Tracy just posted an interview he did with me via email. I talked about getting into blogging, recent lawsuits, True.com and innovation in the dating industry. [tags: Online+Dating+Magazine ]
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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