What day to send emails?
MarketingVox says: An eROI study of emails sent, read and clicked on shows that the market has finally evened out into a sort of stasis where the number of emails sent out on a particular day of the week is only that which won’t overload the reading rate. This...Friendster layoffs, CEO out
Friendster news from Rafat Ali, Jeremy Zawodny Rob Hoff and VC Bill Burnham. CEO Scott Sassa is out. Replaced by Taek Kwon, evp-product and technology at Citysearch.com. Five people laid off (out of 55). More VC funding on the way. Yahoo! is looking to hire...Lemontonic acquired by Silverback Media
Two press releases about Lemontonic today. First is that Lemontonic will be acquired by Silverback Media. The second states that energy company Pioneering Technology is doing a reverse takeover of Lemontonic. Silverback release here, takeover release is here....Spark Networks Picks up MingleMatch
Spark Networks plc, a leading provider of online personals services, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of MingleMatch, Inc., a company that operates religious, ethnic, special interest and geographically targeted online singles communities....Gmail thinks Match email is spam
Match sent out a periodic email urging members to check out new features that have been covered here previously. In the irony department, I see that the email tells reader to add @connect.match.com to their Safe Senders email address list. Then I look over at the ads...FriendFinder suing affiliate managers, owns Webdate.com
Mark Brooks writes that FriendFinder filed suit against affiliate managers, Jack Mardack and Sean Barrett for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and defamation, among other charges, after they left the company and formed Profit Lab, which does...Google Maps + 4ppl Free Personals
Take a roomful of programmers, a beta Google web service and the concept of geo-targeting singles and you have 4ppl +GoogleMaps. The service works by merging 4ppl’s database of singles and overlaying it on top of Google’s super GoogleMaps service. Enter in...Stock your dating site with Russian profiles
Maria at Soflex pointed out a new service provided by Pilot Group – sale of people’s profiles who really would like to find their second half or become acquainted with somebody. Snip: If you have purchased Dating site not long ago and have not become...CityDate
Highlights from the press release on new dating site CityDate: It’s totally free and no advertising. The service provides live customer service reps who call new members by phone and walk them through the features of the site to make sure each member...
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