And on the seventh day God rested, not! Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day you shall enable wifi and visit Plentyoffish.com. Last Sunday, while I was brunching and then crashed on the couch watching movies after a 3am Saturday night blowout, six million people managed to log into [...]
Fernando Ardenghi thinks behavioral matching on dating sites doesn’t work. To support his argument he’s put together a list of academic papers supporting his belief that the dating industry needs to implement the 16PF5 Questionnaire instead. A few weeks ago I went to Dallas to spend some time with Match.com. During my visit I got to [...]
Logged into OkCupid and realized I had a ton of emails sitting in my inbox, oops. I spent and hour cleaning out my inbox and writing emails, here are a few screenshots and some commentary. This is fantastic, I love that this woman explained The Good, The Bad and the Ugly about her. Really, most [...]
Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill talks about the price of various pieces of personal information available from Rapleaf, an online tracking company with millions of consumer profiles and over one billion email addresses in its database. Whether you have a spouse and children is worth just two cents to data buyers, while knowing you have a smartphone is [...]
The Like-Ification of 2011: Saad Khan is an investor I’ve spoken to a few times. He writes for, among other things, VentureBeat, and I really liked this statement he made about Liking things on Facebook. If 2010 was about gamification, then 2011 will belong to people who can figure out what to do with what we like. [...]
Many online dating executives have purchased Subscription Site Insider’s Subscription & Membership Site Benchmark Report and read Paywall Times. Ann Holland and her crew have been pumping out seriously great subscription-based webinars. This next one looks great, three content publishers will reveal the secrets behind their profitable subscription apps exclusively during Subscription Site Insider’s new webinar. [...]
Just got off the phone with Joel Schwartz, who is busy getting ready to launch a voice-based social networking tool called Parlor.fm at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. Some of you may remember Joel from iDate in Miami a few years ago when he was at Teltech, which debuted it’s LoveDetect service. I absolutely loved [...]
After signing up yesterday with a silly profile and ugly photo, I’ve received my first flirt from the new Match over-50 dating site, OurTime. This is where I really feel for singles. Do I pay $20, $53 or $71 to see who flirted with me? In any other context, paying $20 to read an email [...]
Jiayuan.com International Ltd., operator of the largest online dating platform in China, today announced that its initial public offering of 7,100,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), with every two ADS representing three ordinary shares of the Company, was priced at $11.00 per ADS. The ADSs began trading on NASDAQ today, May 11, 2011, under the symbol “DATE.” [...]
Match.com has launched a new dating site for 50-plus singles. Featuring over a million profiles at launch, OurTime.com is actually a People Media site, as you can tell from the templates used. I’m not sure if the million profiles are from SeniorPeopleMeet and SeniorBlackPeoplemeet, but thats what it sounds like. Does this mean that profiles were [...]