FriendFinder SpringStreet acquisition update
Details are slowing coming across the wire. Red Herring and a bunch of news outlets have contacted me today trying to make sense of the deal. One of the questions I get asked most often is what is FriendFinder’s real traffic ranking? 12M visitors is what is...BBC1 debuts 3G IP Video Conferencing
Last week BBC1 linked singles with scientists for one-to-one consultations via 3G (think third-generation, fast video) mobile phone services. From the sounds of a leading 3G analyst in the UK, using video calls to give practical advice to the public on how to succeed...True on the block?
More rumors that True has been trying to sell itself to Yahoo and that Yahoo has turned them down. The rumors that True has lost a lot of money to date aren’t difficult to imagine based on projected paying customers numbers, advertising spend and burn rate....SpringStreet acquired by Friendfinder
Word on the street is the SpringStreet was acquired by Friendfinder. More details to come soon. I’m guesstimating the asking price was $2-3M. It would be surprising if they paid any more than that. SpringStreet does not command the premium pricing of other...Billboards latest recruitment trend
Adrants mentions the recent Logoworks viral marketing scheme where they created a billboard to look like some guy named Lance who is looking for a date. The website mentioned on the billboard, datelance.com, actually goes to a LogoWorks recruiting page. Clever use of...more iDate notes
Attendance was around 150 people. Everyone in the mobile business spoke about how weak the market was. It seemed that they were either trying to keep people out of the business or perhaps they were telling the truth and it really is small. Several people have...Othersingles get’s RSS
Othersingles has started distributing RSS feeds for new members. Subscriber can select to receive all new men, all new women or all new members in their web-based RSS newsreader like Bloglines, or client based, like FeedDemon or NetNewsWire. The feed url is...iDate conference review
This one is from Patrick Marshall of Thomas Technologies. Conference organizers put the number of attendees at 150-200. I’d say it that 120-130 is a safer bet with 20-25 of those folks being vendors. Industry players included AOL, Date, Lavalife, Community...Userplane supports multi-user A/V webchat
Userplane announces version 1.8.0 of the Userplane Webchat. Two big feature additions are: 1. Multi-User Audio/Video Support for viewing multiple audio/video streams* 2. Hidden Rooms (allows private rooms for certain user types) *Activation of the multi-user...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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