January 2012 – Page 2 – Online Personals Watch

MIAMI HERALD – Jan 25 - Three Florida schools, including Florida International University, have had so many students join a sugar-daddy dating site that they’ve been included in the site’s ‘Top 20’ universities of 2011. For the women on SeekingArrangement.com, what they’re seeking is often dollar-specific: as much as $10K a month, or more, to date a certain well-heeled man. College students make up about 40% of the Sugar Babies on SeekingArrangement.com. 10 to 20 escorts are removed daily.

by Michael Vasquez
The full article was originally published at Miami Herald, but is no longer available.

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Badoo: A Very Social Network

Posted on January 25, 2012

WSJ – Jan 24 – Badoo isn’t well known in the U.K. or U.S. but the service is big in France, Italy, Spain and Brazil and operates in 180 countries. Russian-born serial entrepreneur Andrey Andreev founded the service as a run-of-the-mill social network in 2006. Badoo, he says, is like a nightclub on your phone. The most popular age group is 25-34 years old, although one-third of users are over 35. This latter group spends the most money. It has 7 billion page views a month, and ~1 million users online at any time. The company is profitable and did one round of funding. $30 million from Finam for 10% of the company. It has 200+ employees.

by Ben Rooney
See full article at WSJ

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Google Top Adsense Earners: #1 Markus Frind

Posted on January 23, 2012

PRESS RELEASE – Jan 20 - Here is a list of the Internet’s biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled based on an audit by US Department of Labor and The Official Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Markus Frind : PlentyOfFish.com : $300K per month
Kevin Rose: Digg.com : $250K
Jeremy Schoemaker : $140K
Jason Calacanis : Weblogs, Inc. : $120K
Mahmood Somani a Technology Entrepreneur from Vancouver, Canada quickly climbing to Top Adsense Earner really fast, and runs multiple classified websites sites earning him approximately $185,000.00 monthly.
David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard : FreeWebLayouts.net- $100K
Tim Carter : AskTheBuilder.com : $30K
Joel Comm : e-book : $24K
Shawn Hogan : DigitalPoint.com : $10K

This list only comprises of people who are earning from Adsense.

The full article was originally published at Free Press Release, but is no longer available.

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Grindr ‘Mandatory Update’ To Tackle Hack

Posted on January 23, 2012

PINK NEWS – Jan 23 - The Sydney Morning Herald reported that a hacker had listed sensitive profile information online, allowing Grindr users to be impersonated. Grindr said last week only a small number of Australian users had been affected by the hacker’s site, but it would be taking urgent measures to protect security. Address and credit card information was not hacked.

by Stephen Gray
See full article at Pink News

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Religious People Better Adjusted Psychologically

Posted on January 23, 2012

STOPTHEACLU – Jan 23 - Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self-esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this is only true in countries that put a high value on religion. The researchers got their data from eDarling, a European dating site that is affiliated with eHarmony. Like eHarmony, eDarling uses a long questionnaire to match clients with potential dates. It includes a question about how important your personal religious beliefs are and questions that get at social self-esteem and how psychologically well-adjusted people are.

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

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WooWise Launches White Label Dating System

Posted on January 23, 2012

PRESS RELEASE – Jan 22 - After 18 months of intensive development the Smooch White Label system (SWL) was launched by WooWise. The White Label system offers three different models:

Subscription
Free
Freemium

WooWise CEO Martin Bysh is speaking about supplementing subscription income with other services at iDate Miami.

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

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iDate Miami: The Royal Palm Beach Hotel Changed To Loews

Posted on January 21, 2012

OPW – Jan 21 – The Royal Palm Beach Hotel had upgraded and moved all guests from the iDate group to the Loews hotel, located next door due to an unexpected construction. Right now the Loews is charging online $650/night for a room. Those of you that paid $189/night at the Royal Palm will be upgraded and pay $189/night at the Loews.

WhiteLabelDating Celebrates 10 Million Members

Posted on January 21, 2012

WHITELABELDATING – Jan 20 – Award-winning WhiteLabelDating.com announced today that is has reached 10M members. Since launching in 2003, White Label Dating has offered a platform for any brand or individual to power their own online dating site, providing the software, payment processing, hosting, etc. while the site owner need only provide their brand, design and marketing. Operations Director Matthew Pitt comments that “with 10 million members, we have someone for everyone” across their numerous sites. There are more sites available now than ever before, many sites are tailored to specific interests, religions, hobbies, and more.

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Profile Verification Comes To Lovestruck.com

Posted on January 20, 2012

PR WEB – Jan 19 – Online dating site Lovestruck.com announced its new profile verification service, being offered for free to its UK, Hong Kong and Singapore members. The process will allow Lovestruck to cross-check a member’s profile against various public Social IDs, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Members who successfully pass their verification will receive a "Verified" badge on their profile in addition to Social ID badges showing which networks have been used to verify their identity. Managing Director Brett Harding believes verification will lead to a "more open level of communication with potential matches" and thus provide more and better dates.

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