Mark Brooks interviews PerfectMatch
Mark Brooks has posted an interview with PerfectMatch CEO Duane Dahl. Dahl is focusing his efforts in recent media attention on downplaying Eharmony. Picking out a competitor may have been a smart marketing decision but going one-on-one in an industry blog...Friendster search engine
From Boing Boing: A while ago Friendster integrated a spectacularly useless search engine feature. They also added a woefully ill-considered little widget to go with it, which occasionally displays a box on profiles that lists the top 10 searches in the user’s...Criterion increases Spark Networks holdings
Criterion Capital Management, a San Francisco based Investment Firm further invested in shares of Spark Networks plc (MHJG: Prime Standard Frankfurt). Criterion currently holds 11.07 percent of Spark Networks’ outstanding 25,540,982 shares. StoryTrue ads don’t disappoint on Askmen
I received the usual quarterly email today asking if I wanted to advertise ProfileDoctor on AskMen.com. I clicked through the site and found this ad from True. For a company that supposedly is 60-something percent female, I was amused at the porn-like quality of this...Woman sues Yahoo over nude photos
A woman is suing Yahoo! for $3 million over the fact that they didn’t remove nude photos of her that her ex boyfriend posted on several free Yahoo! profiles site. Not personals, profiles. Yahoo has millions of them, you get one for free if you sign up for any...MySpace not as sticky as I thought
From Yahoo News: Friendster logged 703,000 visitors to its site in April, a 15 percent drop from the year-ago month and the average visitor spent 14 minutes on the site that month, down 65 percent year over year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. By contrast, MyPlace...Industry Insider Desperately Seeking Sunshine
I think this is day 19 of rain here in Boston. Please make it stop. I have a bunch of topics that probably won’t make it into posts on their own so here they are. Networking startups are also struggling to overcome fickle users, who switch between Friendster,...Spam Arrest
I just tried to leave a comment on Mark Brook’s blog and his spam filter is asking me for my personal phone number for “customer support” reasons. How ironic given my last post. Perhaps I should get a g*number or MyPrivateLine anonymous number? Mark,...SafetyMinute.com all about the FUD
Mark Brooks notes that a safety expert is urging consumer to use a new phone service, MyPrivateLine.com, that provides a safe, private way to receive phone calls while protecting the identity of your real phone number. The press release says that the newest online...
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