Month: January 2010

Spark.com Thinks BeautifulPeople.com Acted Ugly

Posted on January 7, 2010

Sparkcom logo CNN MONEY – Jan 7 - Spark.com, created by the same people behind JDate.com, BlackSingles.com and ChristianMingle.com, will offer one month free to all 5,000 members ousted from BeautifulPeople.com yesterday for allegedly putting on a few holiday pounds. To take advantage of this special offer, users have to complete a free profile and email their Spark.com username and rejection notice from the other site to getignited@spark.com.

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

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myPartner.com Now Offers Professional Lesbian Matchmaking Services

Posted on January 6, 2010

Mypartner logo MYPARTNER – Jan 5 - myPartner.com has launched their lesbian matchmaking division. Founder, Patrick H. Perrine, was hesitant to add lesbians to their matchmaking services acknowledging the dramatic differences between their gay male counterparts. Now, after six years as a boutique matchmaking service exclusively for gay men, myPartner.com has the tools and sophisticated matching methodology to provide services to single lesbians looking for long term relationships.

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Any Woman Should Be Able To Find Love In Less Than Two Years

Posted on January 6, 2010

Online_woman_dating DAILY MAIL – Dec 31 – Women are making the most terrible mistakes when
they date. A particular issue for women who date online is what they
put in their profile. It's often too negative. This negativity often
continues on dates, particularly for those women who are not over their
ex-partner. They are also pushing their age down by a decade and their
weight down by a stone, and filling their profile with pictures taken
eons earlier. There is another school of women who feel so positive
about themselves they end up with a huge checklist of things they 'must
have' and quiz their date as though he were a candidate for a job
interview. Women like this should take a good, long, hard look at
themselves, and what they have to offer. Women even make mistakes once
they've found a man they really like and have started a relationship.
Often, they become obsessive and the man feels not that he's got a
delightful new girlfriend, but a stalker. FULL ARTICLE @ DAILY MAIL

Profile Approval Outsourcing To Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Posted on January 4, 2010

Mechanicalturk logo OPW – Jan 4 – Courtland Brooks did a preliminary study of Amazon's Mechanical Turk
service recently. We wondered if it was appropriate to use this
service for profile approvals. Probably not. However, you can see the
study at the Courtland Brooks blog, here.

iovation Named Finalist For Best New Technology

Posted on January 4, 2010

Iovationlogo BUSINESS WIRE – Jan 4 - iovation, the device reputation service provider for preventing online fraud and abuse, has been recognized as a top finalist in the category of Best New Technology for the 2010 iDate Awards. iovation’s device reputation service has become an integral part of many dating sites’ fraud prevention strategies by offering the ability to identify and shut down offenders, and prevent several forms of unwanted behavior including financial fraud, phishing, spamming, predatory behavior and romance scams. Voting for the 2010 iDate Awards takes place now until Jan. 7, 2010. Winners will be announced at the Online Dating Industry Award Ceremony on Jan. 28th.

The full article was originally published at Yahoo! Finance, but is no longer available.

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BeautifulPeople.com Axes Holiday Weight Gain Members

Posted on January 4, 2010

Beautifulpeople logo new BBC.CO.UK – Jan 4 - Dating and social networking site BeautifulPeople.com has axed ~5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight. The members were singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period. The site allows entry to new members only if existing members vote them as sufficiently attractive to warrant it. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS

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Match.com Launches New Campaign

Posted on January 4, 2010

Match logo new MARKETING MAGAZINE – Jan 4 - Match.com has unveiled the first work by
Mother, an advertising agency, since it was appointed to the account in
October. The activity uses the Jack and Jill icons used in previous ad
campaigns telling their own love stories for the first time. The TV
campaign broke last week. FULL ARTICLE @ MARKETING MAGAZINE

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Japanese Singles Wish For Marriage, Government Wishes For More Babies

Posted on January 4, 2010

Japanese wedding CHINA VIEW – Jan 1 – The number of Japanese babies born in the country in 2009 have decreased from 22,000 of 2008 to 1,069,000. The government said the population decline may last for the future years, as the Japanese population is getting more reluctant to marriage and giving birth. The term "konkatsu" in Japanese, meaning "marriage-hunter," has been widely reported in global media and describes men and women who want to cut straight to the (matrimonial) chase. In the early 1970s the annual number of marriages in Japan, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, exceeded 1M and the birthrate at this time was at a level of 19 (per 1,000 population). The marriage rate currently stands at 5.8 (per 1,000 population), with one in four of these unions likely to end in divorce.

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