TECH CRUNCH — Sep 10 — Hot or Not has released a new app for the iPhone which combines features from its website into a card game. You are dealt 5 cards face up, as is your opponent. You then pick whichever one you think has the highest Hot or Not rating and so does your opponent. You do this for 30 seconds and the person with the most victories, wins the round.The game is free and available now in the iPhone App Store. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
Month: September 2009
Top 15 Lifestyle-Related Sites
MARKETING PROFS — Sep 10 — Online
dating sites figure prominently in the list of top 15
lifestyle-related websites, in addition to blogging, children's, and
miscellaneous other sites catering to niche audiences, according to
Hitwise. Plentyoffish.com, Singlesnet and Match.com took three
of the top five spots, with Plentyoffish.com holding a commanding
lead. FULL ARTICLE @ MARKETING PROFS
Internet Dating Industry May News – 11 Mins
This is actually the news for May. We’re playing catch up. I had some critiques of the video and fixed them. You said you weren’t happy with the sound quality. We fixed it with a pro microphone. You wanted hi-res. You got it. You weren’t happy with the video quality, so I nixed my mug from the video and added hi quality images.
June, July and August are in process.
– Meetic‘s strategy after buying Match UK
– Dating site abuses Obama
– Zoosk adds Netflix and Last.fm to date cards
– CNN features virtual currencies
– Craigslist sues South Carolina attorney general
– DNA dating safety and ethics concerns
– Matchmaking does ok despite the downturn
– Illinois state nixes tax hikes that include taxing dating sites
– Sex toys for the horny Japanese
We’re working on June, July and August videos. Please let me know if there’s any other ways we can do better with them, and make them more useful.
Finding Love Online: 5 Tips For Digital Dating
ABC NEWS — Sep 8 – When you use the Internet to search, transfer money and shop, you expect quick results. But that's the wrong way to approach Internet dating. Evan Marc Katz, a dating coach and founder of online dating profile writing service E-Cyrano, said daters need to take a longer view.
Here are five tips for dating online.
1. Differentiate yourself with details.
2. Pick the perfect profile picture."It is close-up. It is smiling. It is recent," Katz said of the all-important profile picture.
3. Search for partners strategically. "What you look for is irrelevant if they're not looking for you back", said Katz.
4. Before you publish your profile, solicit some feedback from your friends.
5. Write a winning first e-mail.
FULL ARTICLE @ ABC NEWS
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Matchmaker Masters The Chemistry Of Dating
27EAST — Sep 7 – On August 8, matchmaker Janis Spindel hosted a
“mini-match” dinner party with 20 of the most eligible, beautiful and
smart women sharing a five-course dinner with 10 of her “top” men. The
event is one of the ways Ms. Spindel connects singles. While women do
not pay to be part of those parties, the men each dished out $10,000.
For an annual subscription to Ms. Spindel’s Serious Matchmaking fees
begin at $50,000. With over 800 marriages and 1,200-plus relationships
under her belt, Ms. Spindel knows what works. A client usually has only
two 2 years to work with Janis. If they do not find a match in that
time, then they are not ready to settle into a relationship, she says. FULL ARTICLE @ 27EAST
Mark Brooks: If they do not find a match in 2 years, they should have just gone to Match / eHarmony / Plentyoffish. 😉
Appliance Of Science In Finding Love Online
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK — Sep 5 – eHarmony, which is launching a major advertising push into
the UK this month, claims 236 of its successfully-matched couples get
married every day in the US. eHarmony used the research to create a
patented algorithm to match up potential lovebirds' core traits and
personalities. "This is real scientific stuff, we've got the UCLA
marriage lab and six PhDs working on this," says Dr Warren Waldorf. The
company has expanded into Canada, Australia and the UK and is "actively
looking" at opening in several other countries. It is also exploring
the possibility of specialist ethnic and religious sites. Since its
launch in the UK a year ago, eHarmony has attracted just 400,000
members, compared with 6.5m at rival Match.com. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Twitter-like Dating
READ WRITE WEB — Sep 3 – According to OK Cupid, only 32% of dating site messages receive a response. Of the successful efforts, the majority of first contact messages are brief. The ideal message length from men to women is between 200-300 characters and from women to men it's a mere 50 characters. In a recent blog post, the company writes, "Almost 16% of first messages are over 2000 characters (roughly 400 words), and the average is 743! We've found that the most effective messages are much shorter. After about 360 words (1800 characters), you start scaring people off, like the online equivalent of a face tattoo."
The full article was originally published at ReadWriteWeb, but is no longer available.
Internet Love Cheats ‘Don’t Get Found Out’
WEBUSER.CO.UK — Sep 3 – The internet offers love cheats the chance to carry on their affairs with very little risk of being found out, a report claims. Illicitencounters.co.
The full article was originally published at Webuser.co.uk, but is no longer available.
Mingle2 Offers Zombie Niche Dating
OPW — Sep 4 — Mingle2 has launched a niche dating site
targeted at zombies. Zombies deserve a home as well! Members are
featured on the home page. LonelyBill's tagline is 'I've got one eye,
half a torso and a whole lot of heart." Meanwhile male member Iatemyfamily
states his Interests as "Liver, pancreas, lower intestine." Please
make sure not to view the site within an hour of eating food. Here it is.