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Das Handy als Flirtphone - der iphone flirt

Frohe Kunde für iphone -Besitzer kommt aus den USA: Dort will man das Iphone als Flirttelefon nutzen - in Kombination mit einer Datenbank, auf der sich flirtwillige und ansprechbare Damen und Herren befinden. Wie es funktionieren soll, wurde kürzlich im Internet erläutert : " Nimm mal ...

LinkedIn Joins The Social Networking Election

CNN MONEY.COM - Sep 12 - LinkedIn kicked off its presidential campaign this week with Democrat Barack obama communicating with its 13 million members. While the past two presidential elections showed how powerful the Internet can be in political campaigns, the 2008 race now includes so...

GoMilni Launches Free Matrimonial Site

PRESS RELEASE - Sep 11 - GoMilni is another dating and matrimonial site. However, unlike other "free" sites that contain hidden costs, this Vancouver -based dating service offers all features - including personal messaging, search, chat, and open forums for discussion - for fr...

Virtual Intimacy Leads To Real Carelessness

...use with a new partner is more common. Why are online daters less careful? Mark Brooks, editor of OnlinePersonalsWatch.com, said people hoping for romantic relationships sometimes project wha...

New PlentyofFish Targeted Advertising Channels

THE PARADIGM SHIFT - Aug 30 - PlentyofFish CEO Markus Frind has split out a lot of his logged-in traffic by age, gender , and ethnicity. For the companies bidding on his site, this will make their Google AdWords campaigns a lot more profitable and allow more customized ads to be displayed....

The Right One And Together Dating Makes the Inc. 5,000

PRESS RELEASE - Aug 29 - Online dating company The Right One and Together Dating has been named #2,598 in the Inc. 5,000 - Inc. Magazine's annual list of the fastest-growing and most dynamic privately-held companies in the country. The company boasts over 100,000 members and re...

Famster Launches White-Label Social Networking Solution

PRESS RELEASE - Aug 27 - Famster , the leading private social network for families, announced today that it will offer its platform as a white-label solution for brands looking to capitalize on the growing trend of niche social networking. The new business solution will allow corporations to c...

PlatinumRomance.com For Sale

PRESS RELEASE - Aug 17 - Dating community site PlatinumRomance has retained the Internet M&A firm iMerge Advisors to assist it in exploring strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value. With a member base of over 1.5 million, it is hoped that buyers can immediately build off of th...

NOSO: Your No-Social-Networking Environment

10 ZEN MONKEYS - Aug 22 - NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by scheduling NO Events with other NO Friends. NOSO experiences, dubbed by some to be inverted flas...

GetaFirstLife.com Satires SecondLife.com

ASSOCIATED PRESS - Aug 17 - A number of sites satirize some of the most popular destinations on the Internet. GetAFirstLife , a one-page site with the Slogan "Go Outside. Membership is Free.", makes fun of the virtual world Second Life. Snubster mocks Friendster with its f...

The Roanoke Times Launches BigLickU

THE Roanoke TIMES - Aug 17 - The Roanoke Time's BigLickU will fully launch this month. The social network targets the 50,000 students attending the Roanoke-Blacksburg area colleges, like Radford and Virginia Tech, and is the first attempt by a large metropolitan newspaper to reach ...

Avid Life Media Acquires AshleyMadison.com

OPW EXCLUSIVE - Aug 17 - Avid Life Media Inc., a social networking parent company that provides consumers access to diverse interactive niche lifestyle offerings, has acquired Toronto-based AshleyMadison.com (founded 2002, profitable since 2002, 1.4 million registered users in North Am...

TickMe Eliminating Fear Of Rejection

PRESS RELEASE - Aug 1 - TickMe has implemented an anonymous tick rating system. Members now can show levels of "affection" on a scale of 1-3 without any risk of embarrassment or rejection because the other member only sees the tick if they have a mutual one. The new feature, ...

Don't Overdo A First Vacation With Your Mate

MEDIA syndicate - July 31 - When it comes to taking a first vacation with your date, less really is more. Paul A. Falzone, dating guru and CEO of The Right One , Together Dating , and eLove.com , suggests a 2-3 day mini-vacation over a more complicated, lengthy, and/or overseas on...

Facebook Slammed Over Sex Offender Profiles

REUTERS - July 31 - Facebook is in the news again having come under fire from Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for failure to protect young users from sexual predators online. Blumenthal claims his office has learned of at least three convicted sex offenders on Facebook...

Looking for a Sugar Daddy or Sugar Mommy?

CTV.CA - July 30 - Seekingarrangement (100,000 users) offers to facilitate relationships between an older and wealthy individual who gives a young person expensive gifts or financial assistance in return for friendship, intimacy or sex. "Sugar daddies" pay $35 a month to access profil...

A Virtual Arab Neighborhood

ARAB NEWS - July 3 - Nuzizo.com is a social network which is divided into "neighborhoods" in a virtual city. Each neighborhood has a separate cultural theme and "citizens" take up residence in a neighborhood, generally ethnic. One of the fastest growing of the ...

Family-friendly CircleBuilder.com Raises $800k

METRO MODE - July 26 - CircleBuilder has raised $800,000 from Great Lakes Angels and other venture capital organizations. CEO and co-founder Howard Brown founded a non-profit called PlanItJewish.com and stumbled onto a for-profit business. The "nice" site interested the ...

Peepsnation Launches On Virgin, Verison, Sprint and Boost

INTO MOBILE - July 24 - Peepsnation , the new mobile social-network-turned-peer-ranking-dating-service will launch on Virgin Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and Boost Mobile . Users of Peepsnation 4.0 will see an improved user interface to upload pictures; manage profiles; rate, rank and tag item...

EasyDate Launches BeNaughty.com

...Mark Brooks : The updated white label services spreadsheet is available today. Email me at Mark @onlinepersonalswatch.com for your copy. ...

Service Help Daters To Spice Up Their Profiles

CBS NEWS - July - Dating coach Evan Marc Katz, left, gives online profile advice during phone sessions to Tom Pandolfo, on CBS/The Early Show. With Evan's help, Tom became "a man you can look up to." In spite of his height challenge, Tom says his profile is getting 50 to 60 view...

Only The Hottest Survive

SEATTLE PI - July 18 - Darwin Dating is one of several new online sites devoted exclusively to beautiful people or hotties. Darwin Dating promises "online dating minus the ugly people." With Darwin Dating you can't officially join the fray until you're voted in by all the othe...

San Diego Singles Adventure Club

CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE - July 18 - FunQuest Adventures provides an alternative by bring back face to face meetings. There are two ways to join: sponsorship by a current member; or an initial meeting with a FunQuest membership counselor. Potential members also agree to a thorough background ...

Dating Firms Fight For UK Hearts

BBC NEWS - July 18 - "The UK is the battlefield for the World War of dating," according to Marc Simoncini, the Frenchman who started Meetic . His company bought the UK dating website Dating Direct and is going head-to-head with Match.com . Mr Simoncini says it is not just a clash of...

Charitable Social Networks - BringLight And 411Karma

guardian unlimited - July 17 - Two new web sites, BringLight and 411Karma , recently launched to build giving communities. A survey of more than 180 charities by the Chronicle of Philanthropy showed electronic gifts grew by 37% in 2006, from $880.7m (£430.4m) to $1.2bn. Yet for the onli...

TIME Calls TIME Out On eHarmony

time magazine - July 14 - TIME Magazine named eHarmony.com one of five Internet sites to avoid because of its power to cause utter despair. eHarmony claims a more "scientific" approach with personality questionnaires. On typical dating sites, you are less likely to take it pers...

Forget MySpace, Facebook Is A Bigger Threat To LinkedIn

INFORMATION WEEK - July 11 - When it comes to social networking, it seems everyone is obsessed with Facebook . The big meme du jour is that Facebook will soon surpass MySpace as the biggest social networking site. Regardless of who wins, the questions is will Facebook kill LinkedIn ? Unless y...

Facebook Advertising Brings Poor Results

REACH STUDENTS BLOG - July 11 - Facebook is the website du jour, but in Reach Students' experience it delivers appalling ad clickthroughs. Our most recent campaign saw 1.4 million page impressions delivered at specific universities - and only a 0.04% clickthrough rate. Valleywag finds tha...

Me.com Launches Free Community Builder - SNAPP Free

THE NETWORK GARDEN -- July 6 -- SNAPP Free provides a free community building system Google ad revenue sharing, 50/50. It's the 'Un-MySpace' where communities are vertically focused. Examples include Second Life , a community built by fanatical Second Lifers, Orthodox Circle for ...

Chinese Embrace Online Dating

the mercury NEWS — July 05 — In a country where unmarried 25 year old women are considered over-the-hill, the Chinese are experiencing an American dating phenomenon. Companies like Baihe.com , Yeeyoo.com and Meetic.com.cn are part of one of China's hottest emerging mar...

Linkau.com - Aussie Social Network

XENOX NEWS -- July 3 -- Linkau.com a free social networking site launches in Australia. The site says, "It's like YouTube , MySpace , Photobucket and Yahoo Groups , all put into one!" Features include blogging, buddy lists, email, uploading of videos & music & trading...

Free Online Dating . . . Just For Millionaires!

PRESS RELEASE — July 4 — MillionaireCupid.com announces free membership for referral business. Normally, $29.95 a month, the service is now free for users who invite several people to join and they register. MillionaireCupid.com bills itself as "one of the first and most po...

BakeSpace.com: MySpace For People Who Like Cooking

TECH CRUNCH -- July 2 -- BakeSpace.com announced that it has teamed up with KitchenAid for an onsite promotional giveaway, the first time kitchenaid has used a social networking site to promote its products. BakeSpace is a niche social networking site targeted at people who like to coo...

YouCanGetMe.com Free Dating For Women

PRESS RELEASE — July 02 — EasyDate announced totally free datingfor women on YouCanGetMe.com , a UK dating site and one of the sites in its portfolio. Men are still charged £19.95 per month. Among other features, YouCanGetMe offers live video chat amongst members. FULL ARTICLE @ M...

Matchmakers Conference, September 28-29

PRESS RELEASE — July 2 — The first worldwide conference for professional matchmakers will take place on Sept 28-29, 2007 in Weehawken, NJ. With over 1500 independent matchmakers in the US and sales of $250m last year, the matching making industry is growing steadily. Topics at the con...

MatchActivity Becomes Wannago.com

SOCAL TECH -- June 28 -- Los Angeles-based online dating site MatchActivity has become wannago.com , and is now focusing on creating a social networking site focused on sharing activities and events, according to Yoni Avital, the firm's founder and CEO. The angel funded startup, which raised...

The Right One & Together Dating, Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies

PRESS RELEASE -- June 10 -- The Right One and Together Dating Service, has been named to the Boston Business Journal's elite Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies list. With 2006 revenue of $18.1 million, more than double that of 2003, The Right One and Together Dating captured 38th position on t...

Gay Male Dating Matures

EBAR -- May 31 -- Increasingly, gay men are seeking out life partners and starting their own families. Call it the gay marriage effect. myPartnerPerfect launches Friday, sort of the gay version to the anti-gay eHarmony site. myPartnerPerfect claims to be the first and only dating service with ...

Notes From Asian Friends-Making Conference

OPW -- May 25 -- The Asian internet dating and social networking conference (a.k.a friends-making) was well attended with ~45 people, and increase of 25% over last year. Not a touch on the Miami conference which had 350+ attendees, but hey, this is a (very) emerging market. It's a market ...

Chemistry.com in Spat With eHarmony.com

THE WASHINGTON POST -- May 16 -- A name-calling Catfight , complete with accusations and counter-accusations, has broken out between eHarmony.com (13 million registrants since 2000) and an offshoot of Match.com over a subject familiar to any luckless dater. Rejection. Chemistry's (2 mi...

Nelson Rodriguez, Love Access CEO - OPW Interview

OPW INTERVIEW -- May 16 -- Scammers are a proverbial pain in the neck for internet dating and social networking companies. Over the next five days we'll list five interviews on your least favorite subject matter. These will be slow news days while I'm at the Asian Internet Dating Confere...

Love at First Site

...lity profiling system to rival Chemistry , PerfectMatch and eHarmony shortly. Email me at mark@onlinepersonalswatch.com for first notification. The announcement is on embargo. ...

Bharatmatrimony Group Bags PC World Web Award

pc world -- May 8 -- BharatMatrimony ranked as the best website for its overall performance in the Matrimony space. PC World recently conducted a research on 126 online Indian companies from various categories. The awards were based on the sites design, usability, technology usage, navi...

Iovation Risk Management

PRESS RELEASE -- Apr 30 -- Iovation , the device reputation authority for online fraud management and authentication, announced that Red Planet Gaming software will embed iovation's fraud management solution. iovation pioneered the use of reputation technology for online fraud management an...

Slim 1Q Growth for IAC

AP -- May 1 -- In the quarter that ended March 31, IAC/InterActive, which owns brands like Ask.com , HSN and Match.com , saw many of its businesses expand both on- and offline. IAC/InterActive chief executive Barry Diller said in February it would invest a couple hundred million dollars on gene...

Online Dating Gets Competition From Local Matchmakers

MEDILL REPORTS -- May 1 -- Reasons for choosing an offline matchmaking service Singles work one-on-one with a relationship expert to assess goals and tactics for conquering the dating world. Staff members can vouch for his or her credibility. No more knights in rusted armor. Someone else does the...

Chemistry.com Says 'Come As You Are'

PR NEWSWIRE -- Apr 30 -- Chemistry.com today announced the launch of a provocative marketing campaign that highlights differences between it and eHarmony and includes network television, print advertising, and online elements depicting men and women who wonder aloud why they have been "...

YouTube 'Killer' Jalipo.com

MARKETING VOX -- Apr 18 -- Jalipo is a new online distribution network for high-quality TV and video content, launched today in London, with the aim of becoming an alternative to YouTube . For consumers wanting to watch live events and video-on-demand online, Jalipo offers a pay-per-minute cr...

Man Loses £16,000

BBC -- Apr 17 -- A 48-year-old Kent man is £16,000 poorer after falling in love with two women over the internet and waiting at airports five times for them to turn up in the UK. He struck up a relationship with Natalia, from Russia, and sent her £10,000 to pay for her travel and a visa so she could...

Xing's B2B Social Network Surpasses 2m Users

E-CONSULTANCY -- Apr 17 -- Xing (German, formerly OpenBC) membership has now passed the 2m Mark , up 149% over last year, from 680,000. Xing continues to grow new members in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The acquisition of Spanish business network eConozco last month contributed to the ...

Do Compatibility Tests Work?

ONLINE DATING MAGAZINE -- Apr 12 -- Synovate research reveals that one of the top reasons people worldwide do not use online dating sites is that they would "just rather meet someone in person first." (see Table). Scientists are still grappling with this notion of love and attraction, ...

SeekingMillionaire.com Launches

PR WEB -- Apr 11 --Sugar daddy dating website, SeekingArrangement.com (50k users, 2k new users each week) today announces the launch of SeekingMillionaire.com -- a millionaire dating website aimed at helping wealthy men and beautiful women find real love. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB Mark B...

Jonathan Abrams Knows a Good Party

Photo Caption: In his Friendster days, Jonathan Abrams (right) worked closely with Mark Brooks (center) and Steve Kingsley-Jones. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- Apr 7 -- He co-owns a trendy bar in San Francisco and two restaurants...and founded Friendster , the site that kick-started the social...

Online, no one Knows you. Really?

SF CHRONICLE -- Apr 6 -- Over the past few years, a number of Web sites -- Spyspace, Trakzor, ProfileSnoop, MixMaps, WhosViewedMe -- have sprung up to allow social networking site users to spy and be spied on. Most generate abit of HTML coding that their users plug into their MySpace profiles to...

Engage.com Connects Daters with Matchmakers

...h survey found one in three online daters as "somewhat satisfied." Mark Brooks, editor of Onlinepersonalswatch.com and an Internet dating consultant, said Engage addresses one weakness of th...

MySpace Announces Jan. 1 Presidential Election

MEDIA POST -- MySpace plans to host a general presidential vote on Jan. 1 and 2 of next year as part of an online voter registration drive launched last year. For the drive, MySpace partnered with a nonpartisan/nonprofit group named Declare Yourself. FULL ARTICLE @ MEDIA POST Mark Br...

MySpace Competition? The World is Big Enough

L.A. TIMES -- Apr 1 -- While MySpace may continue to dominate in North America (50% are from USA), Friendster, Google's Orkut and others are thriving overseas. In the Philippines, Friendster is used by an ~87% of the country's 8 million Internet users. ~70% of Friendster's 40-million...

New Ranking: by Online Dating Success Stories

... Cupid, 80 11. BlackPeopleMeet, 74 12. DatingDirect, 54 *As at March 30th, 2007. Email mark@onlinepersonalswatch.com for the top 30 success story dating site rankings along with detailing of: ...

The Accidental 'Friend' Finder

BUSINESS 2.0 MAGAZINE -- Mar 30 -- Andrew Conru, a mechanical engineering Stanford PhD, started the first online dating site, WebPersonals, in the early '90s, sold it in 1995, [started again in 1996] and now owns 27 sites under Various Inc. which control twice as much online dating traffic...

Onlinebootycall.com Orders Boat Load of Condoms

PR NEWSWIRE -- Mar 26 -- The boat will be docking at Lake Havasu, AZ, where 12,000 OBC-branded condoms will be distributed free to college students during Spring break, March 28 through April 1, 2007. "This is one boat whose cargo, we hope, won't leak," said Moses Brown, fou...

Check Date's Background Online

WASHINGTON POST -- Mar 25 -- Kimberly Hall was twice betrayed by men she met dating online. Both turned out to be married. So she started doing background checks on her dates using Intelius.com. Singles now draw on a growing arsenal of security and research tools - from services that verify iden...

Are you Hot Enough?

USA TODAY -- Mar 22 -- HotEnough.org is an online version of Studio 54; for "fit, good-looking" people. Prospective members submit three pictures, including one body-shot, and must be rated an 8 or higher by people already in the club. Once they are in, they are permitted to e-mail o...

Narcissism on the Internet Isn't Risk-Free

miami herald -- Mar 19 -- MySpace encourages attention-seeking, as does YouTube, whose slogan is 'Broadcast Yourself.' "People our age really want to explore themselves and see how they compare to other people by posting up Web site profiles," says Patrick Fishbach, a studen...

Online Dating Profiles

seattle TIMES -- Mar 19 -- Cheesy glamour portraits, beefcake shots and half-baked pictures, wedding picture with the significant other cropped out except for the hand. The honchos at dating sites have seen enough, and they have called in the photo police. Match.com recently hired Jay Man...

Networking Takes Giant Strides Online

US TODAY -- Mar 12 -- As the job market heats up, interest in online business networking is starting to soar - turning a one-time novelty into a necessity for millions of business professionals in search of jobs or business contacts. LinkedIn went live in 2003 and had 8,500 members by the...

In the Computer Dating Game, Room for a Coach

...are hardly new. High-end offline dating services have long provided help, said Mark Brooks, of OnlinePersonalsWatch.com , "The promise of Internet dating is you plug in your profile and you ...

Spring Break Flings on TRUE.com

PR NEWSWIRE -- Mar 6 -- TRUE surveyed its members (502 responses) to learn whether singles would rather meet a lifetime partner or just a spring fling during Spring Break 2007. 30% wanted a spring fling, 29% chose casual dating, 24% wanted a long-term relationship, 16% wanted to find ju...

Andreessen Gets into Social Networking - Ning.com

AP -- Feb 28 -- The Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outside the walls of social networking leaders MySpace.com and Facebook.com . Ning.com is finally ready to make its big push with a free toolkit designed to make it easy to launch a s...

SeekingArrangement.com - Seeking Sugar Honeys

TELEGRAM -- Feb 23 -- Mark, a 48-year-old investment manager, has been married for two decades and has three children. What his wife doesn't know is that Mark also has three "sugar babies" in their early 20s whom he meets for trysts , and upon whom he lavishes expensive gifts and ...

Dutch Pet Lovers

REUTERS -- Feb 28 -- Dier-en-Mens or Animal and Human, is a meeting place for animal lovers. FULL ARTICLE @ CNN Mark Brooks : Now the Dutch are doing what DateMyPet , AnimalAttraction and Dogster started in the U.S.