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Online Dating Insider - Sep 23, 2008
The editors of TechCrunch: had a slow news day and hyped a Japanese virtual boyfriend simulator: In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network …
Also tagged: dating simulaor
Online Dating Insider - Sep 8, 2008
Tech Crunch 50 is today. Practically everyone who matters in the Internet space is there. Why should you care? If you’re a dating site executive, you are are probably focused on driving traffic and conversion rates …
Also tagged: features, profiles, techcrunch50
Online Dating Insider - Aug 8, 2008
I am having a blast checking out all the new iPhone applications. SuperMonkeyBall is great, but Brightkite, Jott and Things are incredibly useful apps for me throughout the day. I don’t spend time on phone-based …
Also tagged: desktop dating
Online Dating Insider - Aug 6, 2008
I wrote Decentralized Databases Are Better than Corporate Datastores at my other blog. The post is about recent circumstances and advances in technology that will enable us stop relying on corporations to (mis)manage …
Also tagged: decentralized dating
Strange Attractor - Jul 26, 2008
I thought I had shown this video to Suw. The link is probably in her inbox, but she hadn't seen it. And I hadn't watched it the whole way through. But when I saw the story that Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch …
Strange Attractor - Jul 21, 2008
The discussion on how to save newspapers - or I would say newspaper-style reporting regardless of the platform - is getting bogged down in mutual recriminations and some good old-fashioned name-calling. Journalists are …
Online Dating Insider - Jun 17, 2008
Match Testimonials Spotted: I spotted my first testimonial on Match.com last night. they’ve been available for months now and I’ve seen exactly one. This does not bode well for the adoption rate of the feature. Match …
Also tagged: marketing, traffic, dating sites
Online Dating Insider - Jun 14, 2008
Social dating site Engage has emerged from it’s two-year beta. As part of the launch program, I received an exclusive preview of the new site from Suneet Wadhwa, the founder of Engage. Disclaimer: I have worked with …
Also tagged: dating sites, engage com, social dating
Online Dating Insider - Jun 4, 2008
Online dating sites function as a destination. Visit site, browse/search/wink/email/connect, rinse, repeat. Emails sent from dating sites always link back to the site itself, because it’s all about visitors and …
Also tagged: social networking, data portability
Online Dating Insider - May 30, 2008
The majority of online dating companies know little about how people are using their sites. I had this thought while I was reading about Rearden Commerce, which just raised $100 million. Patrick Grady has spent the …
Also tagged: search, personalization