Online Dating Industry Notes For June 8, 2010
Yesterday was a big day for Apple fans. While reading the liveblog about the new iPhone Sir Steve threw up this graphic. I picked someone up years ago when I pulled out my Apple Newton at MIT, hardware can be a great aphrodisiac. Match.com’s free alternate service...Getting Cheeky with Cheed’k
I love the statements printed on these “dating business cards” from Cheek’d. Handed out a few of them at a party last week. Let’s just say that they were effective beyond my expectations. Depending on the situation,sometimes it’s better...What Was The First Online Dating Site?
Quick question to start of the week. I’m working with some European researchers on a project and we are trying to figure out which was the very first online dating site. Match, American Singles, Date.com and a few other come to mind. What was the first online...Online Dating Industry Notes For June 1, 2010
Lots of dating sites offering subscriptions and memberships to Yahoo! Personals members. Spark.com (free one-month subscription), Christian Cafe (six weeks of free membership) and Social Connect are the latest. Survey shows why video dating isn’t taking off....PlentyofFish Updates Chemistry Test
Recently, PlentyofFish launched a replacement to it’s chemistry test. The new chemistry matches are the top 30 people you are most likely to enter into a relationship from on the site. My matches are people that we think you could date, which could...White Label Dating Update
WhiteLabelDating.com, announced that 7-day conversion on its general network increased by 36% in the UK over the last quarter and by 33% across international platforms. The company attributes this strong performance to the introduction of innovative tools such as...PeopleHopper Doppelgänger Finder
With billions of photos publicly available on social networks, apps and features based on photos are beginning to proliferate. People Hopper is a new application for Orkut that lets you take your profile image and ‘morph’ it into your friend’s–using...Match To Power Yahoo Personals
Newsflash: Match.com, an operating business of IAC, today announced an agreement by which Match will become the exclusive online dating site on Yahoo!. Yahoo! Personals users will have the opportunity to move to a new co-branded Match.com experience, “Match.com...Online Dating Industry Notes For May 24, 2010
Facebook Knows Who You’ll Hook Up With. Gawker says: Facebook’s CEO came up with a way of predicting who a given user would be dating one week in the future, according to a new book about the social network. And he did it for fun. As the service’s...
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