Month: October 2008

Lessons In E-commerce

Posted on October 27, 2008

Ecommerce3 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS — Oct 27 — Rich Barton founded Expedia.com in 1994 and Zillow.com in 2006 and learned a few lessons along the way. "If it can be known, it will be known. If it can be rated, it will be rated. If it can be free, it will be free." Those three are true now, Barton says. "There are only a couple words in marketing that work every time. Free is one of them." He pointed to plentyoffish.com a free dating site that is taking over the dating world.

The full article was originally published at Rocky Mountain, but is no longer available.

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eHarmony Buys JustMommies.com

Posted on October 27, 2008

Justmommies_logo EHARMONY BLOG — Oct 26 — Six months ago we hinted that eHarmony will be acquiring online businesses. Here is one of them, announced officially on 15 August 2008. JustMommies.com is an online community and resource site on pregnancy and raising children from infancy to preschool. The original owners were two mothers named Patty and Teresa.

The full article was originally published at eHarmony blog, but is no longer available.

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The Web Of Desire Or Just Deceit?

Posted on October 27, 2008

Illicit_encounters_logo THE OBSERVER — Oct 26 — The web has become a place through which to contact, meet and have sex with real people. Some sites are quite explicit about their offerings. AdultFriendFinder claims to be the world's biggest adult social network and sex personals site. The site claims to have more than 2.5m members registered in the UK. Other sites quite evidently do as they promise, such as Hookuparea.com and BeNaughty.com. And when a marriage is under strain, spouses no longer have to go very far out of their way to cheat. Illicit Encounters asks on its homepage: 'Married but Feeling neglected? Illicit Encounters launched in October 2003 and now has 245,000 members, mostly in the UK. 65% of them are male. The site provides a guide on how to conduct an illicit affair, with advice tips including using a separate SIM card in their mobile phone, paying with cash instead of credit cards and never giving their surname, exact location or workplace. FULL ARTICLE @ GUARDIAN.CO.UK 

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eHarmony Seeks New VP For Research

Posted on October 27, 2008

Eharmonylogo EHARMONY BLOG — Oct 24 — eHarmony posts a job opening for a new VP of R&D. The job's #1 responsibility is: Setting strategy for and developing eHarmony's research agenda. The research agenda will focus on 1) the efficacy of current eHarmony products and services in producing highly compatible and satisfying long-term relationships and 2) exploring and validating ways relationship science can contribute to more effective matching results, customer satisfaction and new product creation. Dr. Galen Buckwalter, who held eHarmony's VP Research position for ~10 years, leaves the company to start a job site called MBAInteract that matches MBA professionals and employers using a preliminary personality survey.

The full article was originally published at eHarmony blog, but is no longer available.

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Personal Ads + Google Maps = HookupMaps

Posted on October 23, 2008

Hookupmaps_logo CNET NEWS — Oct 22 — A mix of Google Maps and Craigslist classifieds has resulted in HookupMaps, a service that shows you exactly where the people wanting to "hook up" in your city are. For instance, in San Francisco, there are currently 518 people seeking people. It will also tell you the age and gender of each poster.

The full article was originally published at CNet News, but is no longer available.

SpeedDate.com Celebrates Successful First Year

Posted on October 21, 2008

Speeddate_logo MARKETWATCH — Oct 20 — Since launching in October 2007, speeddate.com raised over $8m in VC funding and hosted 18m online dates. SpeedDate.com allows singles to meet each other through 3-minute online speed dates using webcams, audio, and IM. SpeedDate is also available as an application on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and meebo.

The full article was originally published at MarketWatch, but is no longer available.

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Match.com Notches Up Billionth Connection

Posted on October 20, 2008

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POCKET-LINT — Oct 20 — Match.com is celebrating that fact that over one billion emails and one billion winks have been sent globally on the site since it launched in 2001. People are looking for love even if business is bad. In a recent survey of over 1000 match.com members, 85% of people said that they would spend between £30 and £51 on a date – the same as they would have done six months ago. FULL ARTICLE @ POCKET-LINT

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NeoCom Media and WhiteLabelDating.com To Launch Gay.co.uk Dating

Posted on October 20, 2008

Whitelabeldating_logo_2 PRESS RELEASE — Oct 16 — NeoCom Media, together with WhiteLabelDating.com, are launching online dating services on Gay.co.uk, a high end lifestyle site. Dating Gay.co.uk is set to go live at the end of October. NeoCom Media owner Chris McEldowney decided to add dating services to Gay.co.uk after the success of his adult dating site Adult.Chat.co.uk, which launched in February 2008. WLD will provide the backend systems and management services for the site as well as the full access to its gay members. FULL ARTICLE @ OPW

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NeoCom Media and WhiteLabelDating.com to launch Gay.co.uk dating

Posted on October 20, 2008

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London, 16 October 2008: NeoCom Media, together with WhiteLabelDating.com (WLD), are launching online dating services on Gay.co.uk, a high end lifestyle site. In addition to fashion, shopping and travel news and information, users can access the dating site via a tab on the main web page, where they may search for dates from an extensive member base of gay subscribers, aged 18 to 80 years old. The site it set to go live at the end of October.

NeoCom Media owner Chris McEldowney decided to add dating services to Gay.co.uk after the success of his adult dating site Adult.Chat.co.uk, which launched in February 2008. WLD will provide the backend systems and management services for the site as well as full access to its gay members. Chris McEldowney, Project Manager, NeoCom Media, said: "I am thrilled to be launching this brand new dating service on WLD’s platform. Our other site, Adult.Chat.co.uk, experienced such high user conversion rate and proved so successful in terms of user retention that we chose to partner with WLD again for Gay.co.uk. They provided us with everything that we needed to roll out this exciting new application."

Ross Williams, Chairman and Founder, WhiteLabelDating.com, said: "We are always pleased to launch additional dating sites for our customers following the success of previous sites. Gay.co.uk provides excellent lifestyle content to its users and the addition of online dating will give its users the opportunity to meet people with similar interests while opening up an additional revenue stream for the site."

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