BUSINESS WIRE — Oct 16 — Mobestar’s mDate has been in full commercial use since late August. Since then, it has earned about £30,000 in gross revenues, seen a five-fold increase in new subscribers, and served more than 4 million content items over 28,400 daily logins. In mid-September, Mobestar delivered an mDate platform to Global Personals for service prototyping that should go live in early November.
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OPW — Oct 16 — Looking for a job? You can find links to jobs boards here. – Mark Brooks
SAÏD AMIN — Oct 15 — Australian-based CupidMedia operates a slew of niche dating sites. CupidMedia is different than World Singles in that they are a “tweener” between a matrimonial community and a dating site. Their sites are free for women and derive roughly 50% of their sales from U.S. subscribers. Their Asian sites – such as ChineseLoveLinks, FilipinaHeart, and JapanCupid – are their strongest sites.
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TELEGRAPH.CO.UK — Oct 14 — The older we get, the harder it is to make new friends. For couples, it’s even harder to find another twosome with mutual interests. Not surprisingly, then, sites that help couples meet other platonic couples – such as Kupple, Couplicity, and Couplets – are increasing in popularity. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
USA WEEKEND — Oct 14 Issue — Match.com and MeetMoi are two dating services that offer cellphone features. Match.com’s mobile service makes its entire site phone-accessible. MeetMoi actually helps users find nearby matches in real time. Text message a street address, zip code, or the name of a place to MeetMoi and you’ll receive profiles of people in that area.
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OPW — Oct 11 — We have just updated Hitwise US internet dating rankings. Singlesnet and Plentyoffish maintained their 1st and 2nd position. eHarmony ousts Yahoo Personals from its 3rd spot. Mate1 moved down two spots from #7 to #9. Adam4Adam and BlackPeopleMeet.com moved up to #7 and #8. Gay.com is in at #15 and Cupid.com slides off the top 15 to #16. – Mark Brooks
OPW — Oct 11 — The photos from the European Internet Dating Conference are live now. – Mark Brooks
PRESS RELEASE — Oct 10 – Lavalife has unveiled its redesigned website. Improvements include a new look, an expanded photo gallery, video uploading, and enhanced instant messaging. FULL ARTICLE @ CNW GROUP
ONLINE DATING INSIDER — Oct 10 — For the last 24 hours, Match.com has been mostly unreachable. Some pages are throwing errors like, "Even dating has its difficulties". At $20/month, this website shouldn’t. FULL ARTICLE @ ONLINE DATING INSIDER
PRESS RELEASE — Oct 9 — Online dating site OkCupid has launched a new Facebook application. Downloads of the app, which lets Facebook users add their OkCupid personality type to their profile, have grown ten-fold in the last five days. Next week, Facebook users will be able to take any of OkCupid’s 30,000 relationship and lifestyle quizzes and compare their results with their Facebook friends. FULL ARTICLE @ BUSINESS WIRE
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