I 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 [...]
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From 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 [...]
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Over 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, [...]
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Frustrated, determined romantic creates his own infomercial to find true love. Tim Goggin, a 32-year-old currently single entrepreneur, decides to take the boldest action in his life and create an infomercial to find the [...]
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Seamless ad trading may turn out to be just the start. Google could also encourage buyers and sellers to exploit the hidden value of inventory by blending their clickstream databases with data gleaned from the likes of Experian and Acxiom as well as [...]
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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.
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Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger sent out a launch notice about her new dating site, Psxoxo.com.
“Psxoxo.com is my brand new dating site where love and success go hand in hand. You’ll find men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and interests right here. You don’t have to be a millionaire to sign up. Sit back, [...]
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OkCupid is really hitting their stride with their analysis of [...]
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What a great week of networking. I started the day with a breakfast meeting with a VC I’ve been corresponding with for several years and then last night I ran into Tigerbow, at Webinnovators in Boston along with @URwingman and a friend who used to do PR for eHarmony several years ago. I’m going to [...]
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