Niche site takes on event-based dating
John Engstrom emailed me with an update about recent events at AppleDates a New York City-specific dating and event site. AppleDates is taking member feedback and feeding it back into development and they are busy adding a plethora of new features: Movie Dating:...Online dating soars to new heights
Speaking of new dating sites, this got my attention. AirTroductions is a new service to connect air travelers. Concept is new, but who wants to have a first date on an airplane? Imagine if the other person did not act or look like they did on the phone and in their...Gada.be metasearch
Gada.be is a website which aggregates results from traditional search engines, blog search engines, flickr, and various RSS aggregators. My An Analysis of Online Dating Behavior post this morning is #1 of Google blog search engine, but of course there are a bunch of...PerfectMatch teams up with Regis and Kelly
PerfectMatch is teaming up with “LIVE with Regis and Kelly” for a two week quest to find LIVE assistant producer, Lori, a “Perfect Match.” At ProfileDoctor we do this all the time: interview a newspaper or radio reporter’s single friend...An Analysis of Online Dating Behavior
This is a few years old but An Analysis of Behavior in Online Dating Systems looks like a good read. Written by Andrew Fiore when he was at MIT, here’s the abstract. Online personal advertisements have shed their stigma as matchmakers for the awkward to claim a...Match launches Chemistry.com
Personality profiling has taken center stage, becoming a primary differentiator between onlie dating sites. Match.com has decided to throw their hat into personality profiling ring to attempt to catch up to industry leader Yahoo Personals. Again. I thought Match had a...Adsense and profile keywords
More free time due to Red Sox being knocked out of series 1-2-3, somewhat expected due to weak bullpen but still, ugh. The past few days I’ve been reading various Web 2.0 conference blogs. The Read/Write Web notes on the Ad Models workshop got me thinking about...Userplane October Newsletter
Useplane, a long-time supporter of this blog, has published their October newsletter here. Of particular interest: New Instant Webchat has been deployed on over 10,000 sites in just 12 weeks and the Sitesearch search engine is available to demo. Sliders at the top of...ODI Sponsorship, Consulting
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