Month: November 2014

Domains4Sale: Date.city, 80Dates.com, DailyMatches.com

Posted on November 18, 2014

For sale nov 14OPW – Nov 18 – Date.city is available for sale through auction. You can bid here. The current price is $50. Also contact me at mark@courtlandbrooks.com if you are interested in any of the following domains.

  • DelectablesOnline.com – $250
  • iPoze.com – $250
  • KeepingOrder.com – $250
  • Klexus.com – $250
  • HelpMeFindADate.com – $250
  • FindingMates.com – $250 – SOLD
  • FriendsExplorer – $250
  • SocialSnob.com – $250
  • LetsMakeFriends.com – $250 – SOLD
  • GetHarmony.com – $250
  • DateAdventure.com – $250
  • 80dates.com – $200
  • CrazySexyDate.com – $200
  • DailyMatches.com – $750
  • InternetDatingAffiliates.com – $10k (with blog)
  • KievModels.com – $250
  • LocalsCupid.com – $750
  • MatchmakingNewYork – $1k
  • NewYorkSin.com – $200
  • OnlineDatingAffiliatePrograms – $200
  • Ugram.com – $3500
  • UnDating.com & unDating.net & unDating.org – $5k
  • VerySocialNetwork – $650
  • WithLoveBox.com – $200

OKCupid Adds New Sexuality And Gender Options For Members

Posted on November 18, 2014

Okcupid gender optionsNEWNOWNEXT – Nov 16 – OkCupid has expanded the available options members can select for sexual orientation and gender identities. The list of sexual orientations now includes asexual, demisexual, heteroflexible, homoflexible, pansexual, queer, questioning and sapiosexual. Gender has now been extended to include agender, androgynous, cis man, cis woman, genderfluid, gender Nnononforming, hjra, intersex, trans man, trans woman and two spirit, among others. Facebook rolled out several new gender options earlier this year.

by Dan Avery
See full article at NewNowNext

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Tinder Co-Founders Invested In College Social App WiGo

Posted on November 18, 2014

Wigo logoBOSTON GLOBE – Nov 17 – WiGo, a college-only app based in Boston that helps students coordinate their social plans, has received an investment from Sean Rad and Justin Mateen, the co-founders of Tinder. The size of the investment was not disclosed, but TechCrunch reported that it totaled ~$700K. WiGo (short for “who is going out”) was launched in January 2014.

by Jack Newsham
See full article at Boston Globe

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This post also appears on SocialNetworkingWatch.

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Chinese Gay Flirting App Blued Valued At $300M

Posted on November 18, 2014

Blued homepage screenshotWANT CHINA TIMES – Nov 17 – Chinese gay flirting app Blued is now valued at ~$300M despite having not made a single dollar of profit. Blued launched in 2012 by former police officer Geng Le. It has recently announced $30M funding from American VC firm DCM. 20% of the app's 15M accounts belong to overseas users. The company will soon launch new value-added services and cooperation deals with e-commerce and online gaming businesses.

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

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Antidate Is A Dating App Where Women Are Hidden From Men

Posted on November 18, 2014

Antidate screenshotTECH CRUNCH – Nov 17 – Antidate is a new dating app where women aren't visible until they send an expression of interest to a guy, such as starting up a chat or tapping on a guy’s profile to say hey. Male users are visible within the app to women, including their location. A full version of Antidate launched last week. Its founders are currently on the hunt for investors.

by Natasha Lomas
See full article at Tech Crunch

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“The Grade” Dating App Wants To Weed Out The Creeps

Posted on November 18, 2014

The grade screenshotNY POST – Nov 15 – The Grade, a free matchmaking app that launched this week by Snap Interactive, uses an algorithm to boot users with bad grammar and dirty messages. It ranks profiles A+ to F based on popularity, message quality and response times. Like Tinder, The Grade users swipe right to like a profile. If two users match, they can begin messaging. But daters with a D grade get a warning, and daters with an F are bounced.

by Kate Briquelet
See full article at NY Post

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The Latest Trend: Skipping The Chat And Going On A Date

Posted on November 18, 2014

Whim screenshotsVENTURE BEAT – Nov 16 – A couple of new and upcoming dating apps, including Whim and Clover, are cutting out the chit-chat and taking users straight to the dates. Whim was founded by an Okcupid Labs alumna, Eve Peters. The app hasn’t launched yet (beta-tested in LA in the summer). It will serve up potential dates based on mutual availability, location, and a few other preferences that users can reject or accept. Once a date is mutually set, Whim tells both users when and where the date will take place. Clover launched in the spring and is now adding “on-demand dating", a feature similar to Whim.

by Kia Kokalitcheva
See full article at Venture Beat

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Clover Lets Users Order A Date

Posted on November 17, 2014

Clover screenshotTECH CRUNCH – Nov 15 – New dating app Clover is a sort of OKCupid meets Tinder but with the focus on getting offline as soon as possible. Clover's users add in the calendar where and when they’d like to meet up with someone. The app then suggests a potential prospect to join them and they decide if they’d like to spend their time with them. Clover is free to use but offers premium service for $9.99 as well as some pay-to-play features, i.e name change for 99c.

by Sarah Buhr
See full article at Tech Crunch

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McAfee Study: Kids Are Using Tinder

Posted on November 17, 2014

Mcaffee logoWALES ONLINE – Nov 14 – In a poll of 11 to 17-year-olds by McAfee, 35% reported that they have experienced cyber-bullying, up from 16% last year. The study also found that one in six of (17%) of the youngsters polled are using Tinder every day, with almost half of those (46%) aged 15 and under. Tinder is open to those who are 13 or older, with under-18s only able to match with people in the same age bracket. One per cent of parents admitted helping set up Tinder profiles for their children.

by Hayden Smith
See full article at Wales Online

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The League: Invite-Only Dating App

Posted on November 13, 2014

The league dating appRE/CODE – Nov 12 – The app intended to attract “high quality” singles is launching in San Francisco Wednesday in hopes of matching singles who are more “ambitious” and “engaged” than users of other dating apps. The League keeps a “flakiness score” for users to determine whether or not they are engaging with others in the community. The waiting list for The League is more than 10K people across the country. $750K in seed funding was received from IDG Ventures, xSeed Capital, and Cowboy Ventures.

by Kurt Wagner
See full article at Re/code

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