Online Dating Industry Links 10-16-09
October 16th, 2009 by David EvansI finished reading The Game last night. turns out Courtney Love is on Suicide Girls. So of course I have to go check it out, haven’t been there in years. When I signed up, I was asked if I wanted to join the newbies lounge. Why don’t more dating site offer this kind of a forum for new members? I got a few choice quotes in this Austin Business Journal article about Gelato (warning: paywall)
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Online Dating Industry Links 10-16-09
Online Dating Industrt Links 10-15-09
October 15th, 2009 by David EvansFrom the Frisky, Hong Kong School Girls Dig “Compensated Dating” : In Hong Kong, teenage girls are going on “compensated dates” after school. Basically, they go out with older men in exchange for money, but they don’t see this as prostitution, because in their minds they’re in control of whether or not sex is involved … even though sex is usually involved. Activity Streams is an extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around web. The Activity Streams format has already been adopted by Facebook , MySpace , Windows Live , and Opera. Here’s the wiki and the mailing list . See this presentation on Activity Streams and this post .
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Online Dating Industrt Links 10-15-09
Mate1 Launches datedaily Blog – New Dating Site and Facebook Application Coming Soon
October 14th, 2009 by David EvansOver the years I’ve advised a number of clients to launch blogs which are tightly integrated with their dating sites. Traffic driving, SEO and branding are just some of the benefits. For some reason this concept has not taken hold at many dating sites. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new Mate1 blog, datedaily , has a section called Hottie of the Week , which displays a member profile photo and a link to the profile on Mate1. Smart move, exactly what I envisioned. Liz Wasserman and her team are showing that they understand how to reach potential members, promote existing ones and create additional marketing channels to drive traffic to Mate1. Which dating sites
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Are Personal pages Patented?
October 9th, 2009 by David EvansTechCrunch says: Apparently, a division of the Phoenix company’s People2People Group called Tele-Publishing filed the complaint in US District Court in Boston last Wednesday, alleging that Facebook’s “computer network and method of creating and sharing a personal page’’ is covered by one or more claims of a patent issued by the USPTO in June 2001. The company, which provides multimedia personal and dating services ads to 200 newspapers and broadcasters nationally, says the patent includes an online template and graphics for building a personal Web page and also provides users with a secure way to share personal information with other computer network users. It’s unclear what damages Tele-Publishing is seeking. More info on the Boston Business Journal website. My first sysadmin, who is now an engineer at Twitter, built the first iteration of the Phoenix’s online dating site. An institution here in New England, the Phoenix has a storied past. Its sad to see them resort to these kinds of tactics. I highly doubt they have any chance of extracting cash from Facebook, seems like a desperation move based on a patent that many are skeptical of
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Are Personal pages Patented?
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