PR WEB -- May 18 -- RateItAll.com social network and review community has leveraged the latest Google Adsense API to enable revenue sharing for its contributing members. Members earn cash for using...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on May 30, 2006
OPW -- May 26 -- I'm on eHarmony's mailing list and just got an email through from them. "eHarmony is responsible for over 33,000 members getting married within a 12 month period,...
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MARKETING VOX -- May 26 -- News Corp. is expected to integrate MySpace with its newspaper properties. Murdoch, who was initially skeptical of the internet, now thinks online media operations are...
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OPW INTERVIEW -- May 28 -- Sexsearch is different. It's glossy, sexy and growing gangbusters. The casual dating and, at the other end of the spectrum, serious/relationship dating segments are...
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SILICON BEAT -- May 25 -- Friendster's original investors Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark have reset the company's value, and invested $3.1 million (in what is called a recapitalization)....
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OPW -- May 25 -- The world of social networking extends far beyond Myspace and Friendster. Case in point, I just discovered Yonja, Turkey's leading social network, and Grono the leader in Poland....
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IOL -- May 24 -- "How to make money is the problem for every Internet dating company in China," said Zhang Kuan, president of dating site Jiaoyou. Chinese men are increasingly moving from...
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NET IMPERATIVE -- May 22 -- Benchmark Capital (eBay, betfair, MySQL) has taken a stake in Bebo for $15m. bebo will use the funding to expand the US team and open a London office, maintain its market...
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USA TODAY -- May 22 -- MySpace's user base quadrupled to nearly 80 million over the past year, with as many as 270,000 joining every day. CollectiveX launched this month as a network for...
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I'm at 38,000 feet on a Lufthansa flight (Beijing>Munich) as I make this post. internet service for $27 for my 9 hour flight, at 300k+ according to testmy.net. Nice. Eric Schmidt, CEO of...
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YAHOO NEWS -- May 19 -- Friendster has new architecture and is preparing to launch an instant messaging service. With more than 27 million page views, the company nearly tripled performance and page...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on May 23, 2006
The Asian internet dating convention was held in Beijing, China last week. Here's the pics. Notable dating site presenters included the CEO's of leading social networking site YeeYoo, and...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on May 23, 2006
TECH WEB NEWS -- May 16 -- AOL quietly rolled out a video social networking community on Monday; AOL UnCut. No one under 18 years of age can use the service. AOL will offer mobile device uploads to...
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PR NEWSWIRE -- May 16 -- The new BlackSingles launches with over 250,000 active members and enhanced searching capabilities. Spark Networks operates ~25 online personals communities focused on...
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Asbury Park PRESS -- May 16 -- MyYearbook was launched in 2005 by a brother and sister, ages 17 and 16. Within a week of their start date ~200 people from their school joined. They are adding ~4,000...
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Myspace will start selling episodes of its Fox TV series 24 on myspace.com starting next week for $1.99 per download. The online video market is expected to reach $1.7 billion in revenue by 2010,...
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BUSINESS WIRE --May 15 -- New service combines secure communications and social networking for organized groups such as alumni associations and non-profits. FULL ARTICLE @ YAHOO.COMMark Brooks: Cool,...
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STAR telegram -- May 14 -- "It got too fake," 18 year old Summer Stoker said. "You have all these people saying they want to be your friend. It's just a waste of time." MySpace...
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NEWS.COM -- May 11 -- A proposed federal law (Deleting Online Predators Act, or DOPA) would effectively require most schools and libraries to render Myspace and Facebook inaccessible to minors....
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chicago tribune -- May 11 -- Here's bad news for parents who worry that their kids spend too much time on MySpace: The wildly popular online social network now comes in a cellphone version Helio....
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PRESS ZOOM -- May 10 -- WorldFriends Networks, a provider of private label multi-lingual online dating services signed up its 200th partner. WFN operates in 20 different countries, in English,...
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PR WEB -- May 11 -- Shark dating business software 1.0 is determined to make a dating business profitable. This is implemented via number of business tools... FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB Mark Brooks: OK,...
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