This is the news for the week of September 26th through October 2nd, 2009. We hope you enjoy the new weekly news format. Here is the news we covered for this week:
- comScore numbers from iDate London as the first bullet point
- CourgarLife versus ABC’s “Cougar Town”
- Men’s Health and Cosmopolitan magazines teaming up to launch dating sites
- Online Buddies acquires DList.com
- Interview with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School
CANADA.COM – Oct 2 - Freshly launched Gelatodating.com breaks from simply matching personal profiles to weaving Twitter comments, Facebook updates and other social networking activities together to capture the online persona. Gelatodating founder Steve Odom built on the concept, designing Gelato profiles that are automatically freshened with what people are sharing online. "It's really hard to fake a profile on Gelato," Odom said. "You are pulling in information from a lot of accounts."
The full article was originally published at Canada.com, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: The lines between social networking and internet dating are blurring. The key differentiator between SNS and idating services is/was that members of idating sites don't disclose their identities until they are good and ready.
OPW – Oct 1 – Contact Allan Mooney if you are interested in SugarMommas.com domain for $10K or in SugarBabyHandbook.com, AffluentGuys.com, RichGuysOnly.com and SugarBabyForum.com. The price is $500 for all 4 domains. More domains for sale with prices are listed here.
EHARMONY BLOG – Sep 30 – It is exactly six months after the launch of Compatible Partners, the website opened by eHarmony because of its settlement of a discrimination complaint with the New Jersey Attorney General. eHarmony made several long-term promises and commitments and today is a great time to review what the company, who spends $93.3M in advertising in 9 months, has done so far.
The full article was originally published at eHarmony blog, but is no longer available.
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THE PARADIGM SHIFT – Sep 30 - Google has added view through conversions to google adwords today. I’ve long used view throughs as click throughs are absolutely meaningless. Plentyoffish's users spend 10’s of millions on other dating sites every month and now using view thoughs other dating sites can find out just how much they are really making advertising on plentyoffish.com.
The full article was originally published at The Paradigm Shift, but is no longer available.
PRESS RELEASE – Sep 30 - Dr. Terri Orbuch, a professor, federally funded research scientist, and marriage and family therapist, has joined forces with SeniorPeopleMeet, the dating site devoted to seniors, to offer guidance and perspective to the seniors who are searching for companionship, love or marriage. As the site’s Relationship Expert, she will also write a question & answer column for SeniorPeopleMeet’s soon-to-be-launched online magazine.
The full article was originally published at Trading Markets, but is no longer available.