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MySpace former CEO to pay $750k

Brad Greenspan, Intermix Media Inc.’s former chief executive, will pay $750,000 in penalties for his role in the company’s bundling of hidden spyware that delivered pop-up advertising, the New York Attorney General’s office said on Thursday. Intermix...

Mapmix Personals

Take Google Maps and mix it with a dating site and you have MapMix.Search by location, orientation or relationship type. The site asks for *all* of your contact details and remains light on profile questions. In fact, there are none at all, but it’s still in...

True dumps key love professor

One of the key assets of True.com is James Houran, Ph.D., their professor of love who has schooled more than a few of us on the science of matchmaking. Dr. Houran wrote True’s profile system and fervently supports dating sites using more scientific methods to...

eHarmony affiliate sales up 67%

In the first half of 2005, eHarmony saw a 67 percent increase in affiliate sales from the same period last year. EHarmony uses Commission Junction, a ValueClick Inc. company, for their affiliate management program. Steve Hartmann, director of online marketing at...

Live Events making a comeback

From the looks of this job posting, Match.com is getting back into the events business in specific markets. Someone sees live events as a revenue stream who obviously didn’t get the memo about Match shutting down the Events group a year ago due to it’s...

Tango mag goes bi-monthly

Adrants sez TANGO, the singles magazine about lofty issues such as love, life and the pursuit happiness, has doubled its rate base to 200,000 effective with its February 2006 issue. The magazine, which launched as a quarterly, will also shift to bi-monthly publication...

Widgets make searching easier

Desktop widgets make finding a date from the desktop easier than ever. According to Uneasy Silence, Metrodate has released a Konfabulator widget, which floats a small window with a slideshow of people’s photos based on simple zip code and age filtering....

Meetic Paris IPO a success

Shares in Meetic, which is active in 13 countries and boasts 14 million users, showed a 11.21-percent gain at 1200 GMT to 24.80 euros. The CAC 40 index of leading shares was 0.99 percent lower. Meetic claims that 18,000 new users fill out their profile on the site...