No love lost between online dating sites
From DallasNews.com. Match.com LP, the Dallas-based giant of online dating, wants to take depositions from four ex-employees who now work for a smaller rival, TrueBeginnings LLC of Irving. The employees may have disclosed trade secrets or may have broken contracts,...Hitwise UK Internet Report: Online Dating Industry
For trend analysis, growth patters, etc. Link to other historical reports are here. Price: $750 Published on: July 2002 Published by: Hitwise Do you want to understand how UK surfers interact with the online Dating industry? Hitwise is the leading online competitive...Match testing certified photo pilot program
Today CNN posted an article which mentions that Match.com was testing a pilot program in Dallas this month offering members a chance to get a professional “certified” photo posted online, bearing a Match.com stamp with the date it was taken.Dating Website for Sale
RELATIONPLACE.COM is for sale. It is similar to eharmony.com in the sense that it uses an extensive personality test to match members. The test and matching algorithm were developed by the owner of RelationPlace, Irene Laudeman, Ph.D. One important difference between...MSN Report on Canadian Dating scene
It’s dated 2001, but this PDF report (432k) from MSN covering the Canadian dating market might be of interest for historical purposes.Cracking the Code to Romance
Chau Vuong is the author of an underground Internet classic, The Soulmate Manifesto , a cost-benefit analysis of romance that proposes “a mathematical model that could predict and explain all human behavior pertaining to love.” Lately, he’s been all...What’s up with Spring Street Networks?
Last July, Spring Street Networks raised $6 million from Battery Ventures. The company raised a $1.5 million angel investment in 2001 as part of its spinout from Nerve.com. Some of Spring Street Networks’ more than 200 media company partners includeBoston.com,...New Trends Help Seekers Find Love Online
Mike Jones at Userplane wrote a good article about interaction. I especially liked the blog-meets-friendster angle as well as his prediction that “Profiles will become commodities that are shared outside the “walls” of the individual dating...Pocket Rendezvous
Simeda is working on an interesting bit of software they’re working on for PocketPC called ‘Pocket Rendezvous,’ a port of the Rendezvous easy networking system (commonly used by OSX applications, although it works just fine on PC, too). Using Pocket...
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