TECH CRUNCH – Sep 13 – Michael Cafferata, a firefighter, started VideoDate, a mobile video chat app. The entire experience, including filling out your profile, happens on a mobile device. The app will try to match you with other users, and if you and another person are interested in each other, you can do a video chat. You can’t just do a video call with someone who hasn’t approved you. The app is ad supported, but Cafferata says a paid ad-free version will be released later. Frimper is another video app. But instead of a mobile app, the company has gone with a Facebook app. There are two main components: matching algorithms and an online “speed-dating”. The speed-dating component is the catchy part, but Frimper is investing heavily on the algorithm. Frimper’s matching isn’t based just on what you say about yourself, but also about what other Frimper users you interact with say about you. Dateini solves a different problem entirely: What do you do once you’ve already got a date? The company provides a date-planning application described as a virtual concierge service.
Month: September 2012
Frumster Changing Name To JWed
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS – Sep 13 – The popular Orthodox Jewish dating service, Frumster, will change its name to JWed, according to JWed CEO and primary majority owner, Ben Rabizadeh. Ben Rabizadeh was actually one of Frumster’s first users back in 2001. He loved the site so much that he decided to buy it. The site launched in Dec 2001. Ben bought it in Sep 2003. The birth of the JWed site happened in 2005, as an upshot of this. So originally there were two parallel sites but they always shared the same database. Today, JWed has ~100K registered users.
Janis Spindel Decides To Sell 2Love Today Online Dating
PR WEB – Sep 13 – 2LoveToday Online Dating, which is Janis Spindel's first online matchmaking site, is ready for sale. She plans to sell 2LoveToday for its development costs of $285K plus 10% revenue for 10 years dropping down to 5% for the next 5 years while leveling off at 1%. This includes a sale, merger, and IPO.
iovation Launches Fraud Force Online Community
US POLITICS – Sep 12 – iovation, the Device Reputation Authority, is launching an online community for its clients called Virtual Crime-Fighting Network. The network provides iovation clients and thousands of fraud professionals a private, virtual community to connect and collaborate in the fight against cybercrime. "Sharing data is baked into iovation's DNA and is essential to combat constantly evolving Internet threats and the devices that are used to conduct them," said Jon Karl, VP of Corporate Development at iovation.
The full article was originally published at US Politics, but is no longer available.
AdopteUnMec Launches A Store Where Men Are On The Shelf
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Sep 12 – Online dating site AdopteUnMec.com (AdoptAGuy.com) has opened an online store in which men are quite literally on the shelf. The travelling shop, which will be open in Paris for the next ten days before going to Brussels, Lausanne, Toulouse and Lyon, is showcasing single guys by putting them on display inside human-sized toy boxes. Women in the French city are flocking to the store to ogle the male models as they show off their best assets. AdoptAGuy.com, a dating site which allows men to ‘advertise’ themselves as potential partners, has been hugely popular since it launched in 2010, with a reported 25K signing up in the first year alone.
Meeting Online Is A Faster-Track To The Bedroom?
PR WEB – Sep 12 – A new survey by Sugardaddie.com found that people (67% of respondents) are more likely to have sex on their first real life date than those who meet the old fashioned way. Some respondents said that the actual physical first date with someone you’ve already chatted to online, isn’t strictly speaking a ‘first date’ because the pair have already interacted, got to know each other’s likes, tone of communication and possibly had a little flirt.
AshleyMadison.com Claims 500K Members In Australia
HERALD SUN – Sep 14 – Since Ashley Madison launched in Australia in 2010, it has grown to 500K Australian members, 40% of them female. ~70% of Ashley Madison members in Australia are under 40. Launched in Canada in 2001, Ashley Madison's success builds on a seemingly insatiable demand for extramarital liaisons. Sexual Health Australia estimates 60% of men and 45% of women report an affair at some point in their marriage and ~70% of marriages experience an affair. In 2010, there were 121K marriages in Australia – the most recorded in a single year. But if infidelity stats are correct more than 84K of those marriages will involve an unfaithful partner.
by Sarah Marinos
See full article at Herald Sun
Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – September 2012
OPW – Sep 12 – New iDating jobs listing is live on the Internet Dating Jobs blog.
Below see a couple of this month's most interesting offers:
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From our esteemed Courtland Brooks clients:
POF.com
Assistant Designer
Global Personals USA (Webdate, Fling, WealthyMen)
Multimedia Ad/Traffic Analyst
BlackDivine
Art Directors
MeetMe Corp
Director of Product Development, Growth
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Badoo
Leader of International Growth
eHarmony
Director, Talent Acquisition
FriendFinder Networks
Corporate Controller
SpeedDate
Lead Product Manager / Director of Product
Zoosk
Corporate Counsel
To see more open positions go here.
Do you have an idating industry job offer which is not included? Please, send it to petra@courtlandbrooks.com and we will add it to the list.
Jazzed Is Closing Down
OPW – Sep 11 – Jazzed, eHarmony's sister social dating site, is shutting down on Sep 18th. Jazzed launched in August 2010 to compete with less serious dating sites such as Match.com, OKCupid and POF and one year later re-launched as a social dating site where people could connect, meet and share content with likeminded people. Jazzed users are offered a special 3-months deal on eHarmony for $9.95/Mo that will automatically renew at the rate of $29.95/Mo.
MyLovelyParent.com: Where Kids Get Involved In Parent’s Love Life
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK. – Sep 11 – Having an unattached parent gave two brothers (Matt and Tim Connolly) an idea for MyLovelyParent.com, a dating site where they could advertise their lovely mum to prospective suitors. A child signs up its parent, writes a profile for them and they can then browse the site and send recommendations of people they like into their mother or father's inbox. With 30% of Brits in their fifties single, divorced or widowed, the potential market for a dating tool that targets older members of the populous is large. Bob Greg, founder of OnlyDads.org, a website giving advice and support to single dads, thinks MyLovelyParent.com is "a good idea, until you really think about it. It could put an awful lot of pressure on children in an area that's not really any of their business," he says. "What happens when a relationship they've had a hand in goes wrong? It could impact on the child."
by Matilda Battersby
See full article at Independent.co.uk