Sex and mobile tech zeitgeist watch
Cellar-dweller alert! From BoingBoing: Mobilehookup has come out with a service that enables two people who haven’t met to talk live – for five minutes – on the telephone while protecting user privacy and anonymity. According to Voice Courier Mobile,...More Match.com exec’s leaving
Match continues to clean house this week. Latest to leave are a Sr. VP of Marketing and a Product Manager. Their axed live events staff are circulating resumes as well.Under the hood at Match.com
Here are some of the highlights (for those with a geek gene) of a Microsoft Enterprise Case Study featuring Match.com. In June 2001, the new Match.com- consisting of 20 front-end Web servers, running Windows 2000 Server with Internet Information Services version 5.0...Userplane wins award
Userplane announced that its site for Red Bull’s Re:Evolution of Sports, an extreme sports TV show airing on the Fox Sports Network — has received the 2004 Web Award from the Web Marketing Association. Re:Evolution of Sports is one of the first television...Recommend a friend viral marketing
The personals business is warming up to the concept of viral marketing. Last week I heard from Tom Jaffe, President of 8minuteDating. 8minute has a promotion that goes like this: if you can get three people to register for one of their speed dating events,...Enpocket Acquires Landmat
Enpocket, the leading mobile media solutions provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Landmat, a global provider of mobile community and content applications. Enpocket provides applications and services to more than 50 mobile operators and...TRUE Secures Support of Michigan Legislature
Today TRUE announced the Michigan legislature has become the fifth state to commit to its monumental legislative cause. The Michigan House of Representatives approved the bill with a bipartisan vote of 75 to 14, spearheaded by Michigan Representative Jim Howell (R...SpringStree’s “Send to a friend” initiative
SpringStreet has increased the frequency of their marketing outreach to existing customers. They are inviting members to “Email hot profiles” to their non-member friends. Viral marketing that ends with a typically silly fill-in-the-blank question. While I...Billboard advertising
Adrants has a link to a story about an Australian Chinese woman who has spent $5,000 to buy a billboard in Randwick for a month advertising for a husband. She is quite nonchalant about the whole thing, “I’m surprised a lot of people think this is special...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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