PR WEB — June 26 — Meeta.com, a free social dating site, is scheduled to launch today. Meeta.com offers members free unlimited communication with others, the opportunity to join and create interest groups and host events in their area, free search tools and a free matching system. Meeta.com was founded by Brian Rauschenbach, Norman Clarke and Jason Llorin–all Internet dating pioneers with experience from online dating companies including Match.com, uDate.com, Perfectmatch.com, Kiss.com and ePersonals.com. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
Category: Social Dating
Zoosk Completes Second Round Of Funding
PR WEB — June 12 — Zoosk, a dating application built for social networks, has completed its second round of funding, raising $4.1m. The round was led by Canaan Partners and included ATA Ventures. Zoosk will use the funds to expand its marketing efforts, increase its subscriber base across additional social networks and develop compelling new features for its network. Zoosk integrates with social networks including Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
Zoosk, The X-Multiplier And Social Networks
ONLINE DATING POST — Apr 1 — Leveraging social networks is the cheapest way to build out a dating site from zero members. Facebook dating application Zoosk boasts 1.8M installs, with daily traffic ranging in the neighborhood of 200,000 users and 2.5M uniques per month after launching on December 21, 2007. The company launched on Bebo on March 2nd. 1,433 users at the moment. The MySpace launch was a few days ago. FULL ARTICLE @ ONLINE DATING POST
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lavalifePRIME Combines Social And Dating For Baby Boomers
PRESS RELEASE — Sep 17 — lavalifePRIME, one of the world's first social dating sites, is targeting the 30% of the 85 million baby boomers in the US and Canada who are back in the singles scene and want more than a date. The site allows users to connect based on hobbies, interests, and relationship outlooks, and offers online socializing etiquette tips.
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Mark Brooks: Lavalife realized that Match was targeting the 35+ crowd for a reason – that's where the money is! They also realized that PlentyofFish was stealing a lot of its market share. So, they decided to try and steal back some market share from both Match and PlentyofFish by creating LavalifePRIME and making it free.