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PRWEB
-- Apr 22 -- The stylish ad campaign will run on city scapes in major
metropolitan cities in the US and Canada. It features two singles
stranded on a surreal desert, with the slogan "One2O...
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by Mark Brooks on April 30, 2005
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR -- Apr 20 -- "We're getting hundreds of singles, I mean
hundreds of singles, saying, 'I want to find a matchmaker,'" says Lisa
Clampitt, matchmaker and...
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by Mark Brooks on April 29, 2005
MACOMB DAILY -- Apr 21 -- A 62-year-old man is accused of cheating
two women he met online out of thousands of dollars. Investigators say
Pugh befriended two women through an Internet dating service w...
INDEPENDENT
-- Apr 20 -- Fans were stunned when they saw Tara Reid (American Pie)
listed on Friendster. Hundreds of male admirers bombarded the
site with dating requests. The 29-year-old beauty liste...
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by Mark Brooks on April 28, 2005
NETIMPERATIVE -- Apr 20 -- Broadcaster Channel 4 has extended its deal with DatingDirect.com, to provide a white label dating site on Channel4.comfor a further 12 months. DatingDirect has two million...
PRNEWSWIRE -- Apr 20 -- TangoPersonals.comhas surpassed 30,000 profiles - a number that is quite an achievement
in less than ten months of operation. The site offers a unique
system that allows membe...
SF
CHRONICLE -- Apr 20 -- Yahoo's growth streak continued in Q1 with
revenue above $1 billion for the first time. Yahoo's profit was $204.6
million, double a year ago. Q1 revenue climbed to $1...
WISONSIN STATE JOURNAL -- Apr 20 -- Laura Schaefer, 25, writes a
column about sex for online dating service Match.com and expanded her
sources to personal ads dating as far back as 1737. She'll be...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 27, 2005
JAM
SHOWBIZ -- Apr 19 -- Stars from A-list to C are blogging like crazy to
connect with their fans, often tossing aside grammar, punctuation,
capital letters and concern for their image in the proces...
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by Mark Brooks on April 27, 2005
PRWEB -- Apr 19 -- aLoveLinksPlus.com dating directory announces the addition of columnist the Revenge Guywho will provide weekly revenge advice for the readers of the Advice
Central section of aLove...
PRWEB
-- Apr 19 -- "Focusing on shared activities provides advantages over
traditional online dating sites," states Matt Muro, founder of lifeknot.com,
a free service attracting new members...
NETIMPERATIVE -- Apr 18 -- UK dating brand SpeedDaterhas launched a new mobile dating service, in partnership with mobile
media firm Enpocket. SpeedDater Mobile enables singles to search
for dates o...
BUSINESS
WIRE -- Apr 18 -- Userplane, a pioneer in developing innovative social
software, today announced that its Webchat application www.userplane.com/webchat/ has been named a winner in The horizo...
WIRED -- Apr 18 -- At the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conferencein Seattle last week five teenagers with a sophisticated grasp of civil
liberties and First Amendment rights took the stage; modera...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 25, 2005
R-Kevin Ambler - House sponsor of the Florida background checks legislation
Why the need for legislation?-- "I have a 15 year old daughter and a 17 year old son who live on the
internet. It'...
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by Mark Brooks on April 24, 2005
PRNEWSWIRE -- Apr 18 -- Are jewish mothers really that meddlesome when it comes to dating? According to a JDatepoll, approximately half, of the over 600, respondents said, "yes, they
are." ...
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by Mark Brooks on April 23, 2005
CBS
NEWS -- Apr 14 -- Vladimir is an undercover detective hunting down
Russian women who bill themselves online as brides. "They suck out
$3,000 to $5,000, then simply disappear," he says. ...
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by Mark Brooks on April 23, 2005
GREATER MILWAUKIE TODAY -- Apr 15 -- Most have heard of the concept of "speed dating." The FastDaterprocess consists of three minute "dates." From there, participants are
able to r...
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by Mark Brooks on April 23, 2005
VILLAGE
VOICE -- Apr 15 -- Since moving to New York from England, I have
ascertained that not everyone shags on the first date. In God's Blessed
Land, "dating" has been established for t...
PALM
BEACH POST -- Apr 16 -- True has hired a well-connected lobbyist from
Tampa --- former Secretary of the Department of Management Services Cynthia Henderson --- to push the background checks measu...
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by Mark Brooks on April 22, 2005
RENO CHANNEL 4 NEWS -- Apr 18 -- Denise's daughter is a middle
school student, but to Internet users she's a very different person.
"She put that she was 18, making $100,000 a year,"...
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by Mark Brooks on April 22, 2005
PRWEB -- Apr 15 -- "Would you relocate for love?" was asked to the visitors of aLoveLinksPlus.com,
an advice and dating portal website. Almost 50% told us that they would
move to be closer t...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 21, 2005
TELEGRAPH -- Apr 10 -- Friendster was the first big hit. But when
your mom gets her own Friendster profile, you know it's time to move
on. Enter Myspace, Habbohotel, Linkedin, Jewster, Orkut and T...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 21, 2005
PRNEWSWIRE -- Apr 14 -- The House Criminal justice Committee voted 5-to-2 in favor of HB 1035, and members of the Senate Commerce and Consumer Services Committee voted 6-to-2 in support of SB 1768.
Th...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 20, 2005
BUSINESS WEEK -- Apr 13 -- Meetupmade its reputation when Howard Dean backers used the meeting site to
form local groups. The number of "meetups" has jumped 50% from a year
ago, to more than...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 20, 2005
TV
PREDICTIONS -- Apr 15 -- Dating on Demand can be found on Comcast's
Video On Demand lineup and permits singles to post two-minute videos
explaining what they are looking for in a mate. If a Co...
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by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2005
USA TODAY -- Apr 14 -- A growing amount of free personal information
is so easy to find online that many Internet regulars don't think of it
as spying. Plug a name into Google and you have an inst...
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by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2005
NBC5
-- Apr 13 -- "Well, there are a lot of things that online dating does
well," said Mark Thompson of WeAttract.com. "Arranging marriages is not
one of them. You see lots of happy co...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2005
DAILY
RECORD / BUSINESS WEEK -- Apr 13 -- Diller was born in San Francisco,
the son of a wealthy real-estate developer, and he was not a good
student. At Beverly Hills High, he was fired from the new...
NY TIMES -- Apr 12 -- Hani joined JDatewhere she met David, a fellow graduate of Lafayette High School, class
of '59. Her email,"David, is that you?" According to Nielsen/Net
Ratings, th...
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by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2005
PITT NEWS (Uni Pittsburgh) -- Apr 11 -- Catch27.comis the latest addition to the list of interactive Web sites for college
students, which includes Friendster and Facebook. But, there's a catch,
y...
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by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2005
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY -- Apr 11 -- According to the US Census Bureau 9 in 10 people
will marry but one half of first marriages end in divorce. Between 1970
and 1996, the number of women living alone double...
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by Mark Brooks on April 19, 2005
SUMMIT
DAILY NEWS -- Apr 9 -- Susanna (37) never expected to fall in love when
she posted a profile describing herself on the website of the satirical
publication The Onion. Her profile was active jus...
CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER -- Apr 10 -- Marge (57) looks forward to dinner and flowers
every Tuesday from the fellow she affectionately refers to as Yahoo!
Boy. Dennis (63) and Marge's marriages ended 25...
SILICONVALLEY.COM -- Apr 8 -- Tribe Networks, an emerging player in online classified advertising and social networking, has appointed Jan Gullett to replace CEO Mark Pincus. Tribe is backed by VC fi...
REVOLUTION MAGAZINE -- Apr 8 -- DatingDirect.com signed an exclusive six-figure deal with (UK) Associated Newspapers online arm, Associated New Mediato provide white-labelled dating services to rea...
ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Apr 6 -- Lawmakers delved into the world of
online dating Wednesday, debating a bill that would require Web sites
to notify paying visitors whether they perform criminal background...
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by Mark Brooks on April 7, 2005
Lansing STATE JOURNAL
-- Apr 6 -- I teamed up with a wingwoman. I paid $50 an hour for Amy, a
pretty, friendly, intelligent, professional wingwoman contracted by www.wingwomen.comin New York City. I...
PRNEWSWIRE -- Apr 6 -- Friendsterannounced it is working with FOX to promote it's new series,
'Stacked,' through the use of Friendster Blogs. More than thirty
members of the cast and cre...
BUSINESS WIRE -- Apr 6 -- Userplane, social software pioneer, today announced a partnership with Date.comto provide Userplane Webmessenger and Webchat. "By partnering with
Userplane, we are prov...
WALL
STREET REPORTER -- Mar 31 -- Some summary facts about FriendFinder; 25
million active members, 90 million signups since 1996, 80-90,000
registrations a day, 20 dating verticals including adultfr...
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by Mark Brooks on April 6, 2005
ARIZONA TRIBUNE -- Apr 5 -- The online personals industry is
experiencing "The Big Squeeze." Mark Brooks, an online personals
industry analyst and editor of Onlinepersonalswatch.com, says hu...
OPW -- Apr 5 -- The new online personals rankings are out, courtesy
of Hitwise. The top 7 remain the same. True moves from 10th
to 8th spot. LoveAccess climbs from 13th to 11th spot squeezing
Cupid in...
PRNEWSWIRE -- Apr 4 -- Carat Interactive announced a new interactive online ad campaign for PerfectMatch.comtitled "Genuine People, Real Love," building on the existing member
base of over ...
BUSINESS
WIRE -- Apr 4 -- CGI Holding, which plans to change its name to Think
Partnership, announced a deal to buy Vintacom and Real Estate School
Online. The Company expects to pay an aggregate of ...
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PRNEWSWIRE
-- Mar 31 -- Hollywood couples are widely known for their failed
relationships and unusually high divorce rates. Most recently, Denise
Richards and Charlie Sheen called it quits after thre...
PRWEB -- Apr 4 -- AdvancedTele.comhas purchased Spark Network Services. Spark is a division of
Infinity Broadcasting. AdvancedTele.com has been active in the
newspaper voice personals business for ov...
NEVADA APPEAL -- Apr 4 -- "People are visual animals. With the
Internet, you miss out on that magic feeling of eyeing someone from
across the room and getting the thrills and chills of instant
at...
WASHINGTON POST -- Apr 3 -- What is this
service Yahoo unleashed on Tuesday, anyway? Yahoo says it's
designed to help you stay in touch with existing friends, not introduce
you to strangers. But...
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by Mark Brooks on April 6, 2005
WIRED -- Apr 1 -- TrueDater, not to be confused with True.com,
is a database of reviews written by people who met through online
personals. The goal here is not to rate (or berate) the person, but to...
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by Mark Brooks on April 6, 2005
UK
TELEGRAPH -- April 1 -- If you want to know the secrets of a long and
happy marriage, ask Gran. Jennie Hawthorne is the
88-year-old author of a new book on finding the right partner called
Meet Yo...
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by Mark Brooks on April 3, 2005
CBS
EARLY SHOW -- Mar 31 -- Today, online dating is socially acceptable and
totally mainstream. 26 million people visit dating sites each month.
Consumers will spend over $500 million on online dating...
SEARCH
ENGINE JOURNAL -- Mar 29 -- So far, Yahoo 360 is quite nice. It seems
to be the missing link connecting Yahoo groups, photos, and centering
them around blogging. There's one uniform Yahoo ...
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by Mark Brooks on April 3, 2005
ONE2ONE LIVING -- The US has more single adults than any other nation
in the world except for China and India. There are now more single head
of households than there are married households with child...
BUSINESS WIRE -- Mar 30 -- How long can you go without sex? For members of AdultFriendFinder.com,
the world's largest adult online dating site, the answer is: not
long. 45% of the 11,000 respondan...
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by Mark Brooks on April 3, 2005
PRWEB -- Mar 29 -- Youggle.comhas launched; includes a virtual speaking host which guides users
though the total sign up stage. Free 1 month introductory full
membership trial period. PRESS RELEASE ...
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by Mark Brooks on April 3, 2005
NYNEWSDAY -- Mar 29 -- A man accused of killing four people in
Pennsylvania was "a quiet person that can surprise people with a sudden
outburst," according to an entry he made on match.com. ...
asia PULSE -- Mar 29 -- Friendster has launched Friendster Classifieds by Pusit,
a Filipino classifieds community designed to serve Metro Manila and the
78 other provinces that make up the Philippine...
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by Mark Brooks on April 3, 2005
FORT
WAYNE NEWS SENTINEL -- Mar 28 -- What made you start eHarmony?
"More than anything else, it had to with my grieving over the
incredible amount of marriages that kept ending in divorce right...
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by Mark Brooks on April 3, 2005
DETROIT NEWS -- Mar 28 -- Sandie Cornillie did a double take when
she first heard about a Michigan bill that would force online dating
sites to say whether criminal background checks have been conduct...
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