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Crazy Blind Date Promises Short Notice Dates
A website named Crazy Blind Date is promising crazy blind dates. The site promises dates arranged in extremely short notice. The site says it is for "social, outgoing, and adventurous people." Here is how you meet each other quickly according to the faq.
When you agree to a date, you'll get to see a description of your match. If you still can't find each other amongst all the other nervous-looking people at that bar or coffee shop, quack like a dog and make armpit farts. If that doesn't work, you can send each other text messages through us. In the final 30 minutes before the date, we open a relay. If you send a text message to CUPID (28743) it will go to your date's phone. For example: "I'm at the bar in the back, wearing a blue sweater, drinking a martini."
It does sound kind of crazy. Note: making armpit farts does not sound like a good idea despite what the faq says.
Posted on December 20, 2009
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Match.com Acquires People Media
 The Washington Post reports that Match.com is acquiring People Media, a network of over two dozen dating sites.
The deal includes the purchase of about 27 targeted dating sites with a combined 255,000 paying subscribers, including BlackPeopleMeet.com, BBPeopleMeet.com, LDSPlanet.com, SingleParentMeet.com and SeniorPeopleMeet.com.
People Media, founded in 2002, had $11.6 million of EBITDA in 2008 and quotes Jupiter Research as saying the combined revenues of the targeted dating service business are expected to reach $1.2 billion worldwide this year. Still according to the announcement, People Media, besides exclusively powering multiple AOL Personals communities, reaches nearly 4 million internet users each month. Match.com attracted about 5.8 million unique monthly users in May 09 according to comScore and reported $9.9 million in operating income before amortization last year.
People Media also powers AOL Personals communities says the Post, which is where most of its unique visitors come from. It's not clear from the article whether Match.com will continue running all the Peoples Media sites as separate sites from Match.com.
Posted on July 10, 2009
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PlentyofFish Adds Paid Service
 The Wall Street Journal reports that a free dating site called PlentyofFish is going to add a paid service. The paid option will be for "serious" daters.
In a February report, Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay called it "the most successful of a new generation of 'free' or advertising-supported dating sites," and one whose growth could pose a "Craigslist-like disintermediation” threat to established players like Yahoo Personals and IAC's Match.com.
By wading into the paid arena, it may lessen that disintermediation risk, but compete on more even terms with those sites.
According to a blog entry by its CEO, Markus Frind, PlentyofFish will sell "Serious Member" badges that will appear on members’ pages for three, six or 12 months. Serious members will be marked as such in search results, and their messages to prospective partners will be highlighted.
PlentyofFish's approach to a paid option is different from Match and Yahoo Personals, which charge users when they sign up or attempt to contact someone. "Paid sites monetize on impulse," Mr. Frind wrote. "PlentyofFish is going to monetize on user intent. I believe we will have far more members that are serious than paid sites."
Sometimes online service to do need a paid level to weed out those who are not serious about the website. We will see if it works for PlentyofFish. Some people do have more free time because they are out of work but at the same time they have less money to spend on dating or on paid dating websites.
Posted on March 20, 2009
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Web 2.0 Dating Sites Use Videos
 Wired has an interesting article about the next generation of online dating websites. The websites make use of videos to help people find a love connection.
A handful of next-gen dating services updates the original online-dating sites' standard mix of exhaustive personality surveys and poring over profiles in search of a potential mate. They're the latest twists on internet dating, which drew in 22.6 million people this year, according to data collected by comScore.
Video-centered services like SpeedDate, Say-hey-hey and WooMe reel in online speed daters by offering quick registration, free memberships and the tantalizing promise of a date within minutes. Others, like Ice Brkr and Crazy Blind Date, rely on text messaging to coordinate speedy meetings.
WooMe, backed by original Skype backer Mangrove Capital Partners, allows members to create short group-video-chat sessions. SpeedDate, based in San Mateo, California, files a seemingly endless line of daters through your virtual door for three-minute "video dates" supplemented with a text client. With Say-hey-hey, users upload a YouTube-style clip of themselves, and viewers interested in a date ping the posters with intro videos of their own.
Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University at Dominguez Hills and author of the forthcoming book Me, MySpace and I, says the evolution of online dating is only natural: Even pioneer dating site Match.com is hooking up with Facebook to tap the social networking site's growing popularity.
Some of the websites mentioned in the Wired story include SpeedDate, Say-hey-hey and WooMe. A lot of social networks have video features too but they are not specifically designed to be dating websites.
Posted on January 18, 2008
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