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InterActiveCorp will split in two

by | Dating Industry Finance

The New York-based Internet conglomerate said Tuesday it will move its extensive online travel holdings, including reservation services Expedia.com, Hotels.com and Hotwire, into one venture, which will do business under the Expedia moniker. The company’s other...

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Videoblogging again

by | Interviews

Now that I’m settled in here at Corante I’ll get back to videoblogging again. The current A/V window is running Userplane A/V blogging tool. I’ll be posting video entries, interviews and audio-only MP3 recordings in the near future. If you’re...

Online Dating Insider

by | Interviews

Podcasting has arrived! Eric, Alex and the guys over at Corante Eventlab hooked me up with a setup to post audioblog entries. I’m exhausted from a 5am wakeup call to do an interview on BBC Radio Scotland, go here if you want to know more about podcasting.

Lemontonic getting busy in Canada

by | Dating Site Technology

Only one more holiday party to go… In the meantime, Lemontonic is getting ready to roll out version 2 of their MSN Messenger-based platform. Lemontonic and Love.com are the only companies leveraging the chat clients we all use every day, and I’m not sure...

California girls, not!

by | Marketing

A certain dating site based in TX sent me an email with five women from California that are supposedly compatible with me. What part of 25 miles or less didn’t they understand? The whole “your matches” by email-phone-www thing is getting out of hand....

PerfectMatch television

by | Dating Sites & Startups

PerfectMatch aired their 30 minute tv ad over the weekend. If you Tivo’d it or watched it, let me know since it’s not playing in Boston. In the email about the show, I also see that PerfectMatch is offering a “Bill Me Later” Option. I wonder...

Match editing member photos

by | Dating Sites & Startups

I don’t know how long this has been going on but when I updated my photos on Match this week I was presented with a pop-up stating my primary photo would be cropped to better show my face. I just spent 10 minutes tweaking the photo in a $700 photo editor, why...