ONLINE DATING POST — Apr 1 — Leveraging social networks is the cheapest way to build out a dating site from zero members. Facebook dating application Zoosk boasts 1.8M installs, with daily traffic ranging in the neighborhood of 200,000 users and 2.5M uniques per month after launching on December 21, 2007. The company launched on Bebo on March 2nd. 1,433 users at the moment. The MySpace launch was a few days ago. FULL ARTICLE @ ONLINE DATING POST
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I hate these stories. This is simply another example of how the rich get richer. There are thousands of smaller dating sites all trying to get a piece of the market, and along comes a couple of guys with millions and millions of dollars to spend. They quickly take over the market. It’s kind of like the story of Walmart.
Personally, I like the story of Plentyoffish.com. A guy in his apartment in Vancouver decides to make his own free dating site with only the few dollars in his pocket. Now it’s a major success story. Now that is an inspirational story to tell the kids.