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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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Dating Sites Face Chickens and Eggs
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Number 8 on Paul Graham’s Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund:
Dating. Current dating sites are not the last word. Better ones will appear. But anyone who wants to start a dating startup has to answer two questions: in addition to the usual question about how you’re going to approach dating differently, you have to answer [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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Plenty Of Fish Extends Workday to 90 Minutes
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Once held up as a shining example of how to succeed by working as little as possible, PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind made a series of stunning announcement this week which have sent shockwaves of despair through the global get-rich-quick and affiliate marketing communities.
Entrepreneur fanboys, Microsoft programmers and bloggers were also saddened to learn that founder [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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Online Dating News: July 18, 2008
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Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts.
ReadWriteWeb says:
More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms were URLs (match.com, plentyoffish.com) and almost [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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Off to Nantucket
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I am heading off to Nantucket for a few days, back on Friday. Working an hour or two a day and responding to high-priority email. I’ve had some very interesting conversations with executives at Match, eHarmony and several startups in the US and China in the past week. Lot’s to talk about when I get [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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Unhelpful Dating Site Software Affiliate Program
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Dear Pilot Group. I went to sign up as an affiliate today. How come your banner sizes are different for social dating and social networking? The smallest size for dating is 250×250, don’t you have anything smaller? Fix your category listing, it’s not showing all banners. Make it easier to select a specific category of [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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The Effect of Google’s Lively On Virtual Dating Applications
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Google has finally gotten into the virtual reality market with Lively. As an early member of the Boston Computer Society’s Virtual Reality Group circa 1993, I have a longstanding interest in virtual worlds and keep up to date with SecondLife and to some extent MMORPG’s like WorldOfWarCraft as well as avatar-based chat.
Google thinks Lively will [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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NYC Trip, Waterfalls, A Visit With Tribester
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Yesterday I was in New York City being a good consultant and meeting with clients and doing some business development with people I’d really want to work with. Nothing drives home my value like looking across a table at someone and telling them something they didn’t know which could change their entire business. I am [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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JLove Responsible for SEO Spamming?
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Looks like JLove has been up to some questionable Search Engine Optimization tricks. It seems the Jewish dating startup has been creating fake profile pages for people who don’t belong to the service. Whatever they are doing, traffic is up 500% in recent months.
For example, here is a list of people with the last name [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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My Afternoon on Social Dating Sites
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It’s not just Match thats broken, I just saw these two blunders on Facebook. “Come back in a few days.” What???? This is barely acceptable on a free site based on a very basic platform.
The second one is that I was shown an ad for men. Believe, me, that is not my preference. Welcome [...]
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07/23/2008 12:00 AM
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My Morning On Match.com
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I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I’m paying for. This isn’t an overloaded social network with a million features, it’s a dating site, albeit a large one but they have had years to get this working properly, it’s not [...]
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