OPW INTERVIEW -- June 30 -- I met Markus at iDate2005 and barely gave him the time of day; a hokey little site called Plentyoffish. I have a lot more respect for him these days. Plentyoffish is free...
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SF CHRONICLE -- June 28 -- Supernova2006 was produced in concert with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business. It brings together such luminaries as Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of...
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BRAND REPUBLIC -- June 28 -- Match is to screen what it claims is the first ever live TV ad. Filmed in front of a live audience, the ad will be shown on ITV1 during this year's 'Love...
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PR NEWSWIRE -- June 26 -- Relatieplanet.nl, a leading dating site in the Netherlands, today enters the UK market with TrueDate.com. The publisher of Holland's biggest daily newspaper "De...
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CHINA DAILY -- June 26 -- iResearch valued the Chinese online dating market at 37 million yuan (US$4.5 million) for 2004 and 91 million yuan (US$11.2 million) for 2005, and predicts it will grow to...
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DAILY HERALD -- June 25 -- Ancestry.com, a subscription service of MyFamily.com Inc. completed a six-year effort to index more than 540 million names in U.S. Census records from 1790 through 1930,...
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OPW -- June 26 -- Here's a little graph of Plentyoffish vs OKCupid vs Matchdoctor vs American Singles fyi. plentyoffish is powering away. Here's Myspace vs Friendster vs Hi5 vs FacebookMark...
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OPW -- June 26 -- A best western in Utah was reported as using a wireless ISP that blocks Myspace. InfoWest explains on their blog and site that they are blocking Myspace because it is a context for...
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RED orbit -- June 22 -- Now, businesses and organizations can create, customized, branded online social networks where members can link their personal spaces with friends and colleagues. Server hosted...
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COURIER TIMES -- June 22 -- MySpace users age 18 or over can no longer request to be on a 14-or 15-year-old's list of friends unless they already know either the youth's E-mail address or full...
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PC WORLD -- June 21 -- SingleStat.us was active for only 10 days before a cease-and-desist letter from MySpace caused its creator to shut down the site. SingleStat charged a small fee to be notified...
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WORK HAPPY.NET -- June 15 -- Markus Frind runs a free online dating site called PlentyOfFish.com and he rocked the Internet world this week when he posted a photo of his latest Google AdSense check...
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STATESMAN -- June 20 -- A 14-year-old who said she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace sued the popular social networking site Monday for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect...
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PR NEWSWIRE -- June 19 -- Industrious Kid Inc., developer of online destinations for children, has launched imbee.com; a new secure social networking and blogging destination for 8 to 14's. Imbee...
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denver post -- June 18 -- A Colorado company that owns lovecity.com sued Yahoo, (also TRUE and Spark Networks) claiming they improperly used a trademark domain name to direct consumers looking for...
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THE GUARDIAN -- June 18 -- Michael Birch's (Bebo Founder) original internet plans were aimed at an older age group - thirtysomethings - but he soon learnt that social networking online depends on...
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OPW INTERVIEW -- June 16 -- WAYN.com is a unique as a social network. They are successful and are making money with a paid VIP membership. Here's my recent interview with WAYN.com...
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NMA.CO.UK -- June 15 -- The new Dating Direct voice greeting service allows members to leave a three minute message describing themselves. Other members can then phone up to listen to the messages,...
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PR NEWSWIRE -- June 15 -- The social networking Phenomenon continued its stratospheric ascent. MySpace.com reached 50 million visitors in May and YouTube.com nearly doubled its traffic from April,...
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OPW -- June 16 -- iDate San Francisco is coming up. I'll be talking about safety and background checks. I talked with AnastasiaWeb recently and they tell me AnastasiaWeb has a two-phase process of...
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MARKET WIRE -- June 14 -- Carmen Electra, former "Baywatch" beauty, was featured on "access hollywood." and provided an endorsement of Luvoo.com. The strategy for growth is through...
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PR NEWSWIRE -- June 12 -- DoubleDate.com gives friends the opportunity to socialize in pairs; creating a more honest, less stressful and more relaxed environment for meeting new people. Safety in...
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