Towards a more efficient ranking system for dating sites
Much ado about Alexa rankings lately. It’s time to take a hard look at developing an industry standard for ranking dating sites. This is a first pass, hopefully it can be refined over time with feedback and turn out to be something helpful to the industry,...Tickle Matchmaking rebrands as Lovehappens
Steven tells us that Tickle Matchmaking has rebranded as Lovehappens.com. “Welcome to LoveHappens, a new site where people help people find love through introductions and recommendations.” I went over to take a look. Quick review. Remember the bumper...Engage.com Launches new dating site
I’ve been holding back on this for a while now but I can finally tell you a bit about a new site that I think could have a good chance at heralding in the next generation of online dating. Engage.com Launches World’s First Online Relationship Community...Plentyoffish “Destroys” online dating business model
Markus tells us that Plentyoffish accounts for nearly 25% of English-speaking Canadian online singles. More than 35,000 Canadian members visit Plentyoffish.com each weekday looking for their perfect match. Plentyoffish.com is comprised of only one employee. Sites of...PayPal launched merchant processing gateway
PayPal has launched it’s own merchant processing/gateway product called PayPal Website Payments Pro. Customers do not need a PayPal account to pay with their credit cards. $20.00 USD monthly fee No monthly fee until 10/31/2005 No setup fees No cancellation fees...Userplane July newsletter
Userplane announces new Multi-User A/V chat. Check it out here. Deal with Click2Asia, a leading Asian online dating service. The User Plane, the central place to explore the organically growing landscape of diverse web communities from around the world. Userplane is...OPW Cupid.com Interview
Mark Brooks does another Dating Industry CEO interview, this time It’s Cupid.com’s CEO and co-founder. Eric Strauss. The bit about advertising Cupid on radio is interesting and the Predating deal seems to be working out, but who really knows? Lots of talk...Beliefnet prays, gets $7M round
From TheDeal.com: Beliefnet Inc. didn’t look to the heavens for its latest round of funding, but rising spirituality across the country did help the multifaith online media company land $7 million in new venture capital in a funding led by the Boston office of...Yahoo! My Web 2.0
My Web 2.0 is a social search engine where users can “tag and save content, connect to friends, share what they know, and discover what the world is tagging.” You can control what you see (and want to see) by your social network, there is an open API for...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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