“GREETINGS, Your Highness,” the message began. “I had the pleasure of dining in your kingdom last night.”
Before writing an article about a dating Web site, I’d signed up for it in order to vet its service. Once I was done writing about it, I left my profile up. (Newly single, I figured it couldn’t hurt to see what kind of excitement might turn up.)
Then, a slightly creepy note sailed into my in-box.
“Funny how two discrete online identities can so easily intersect by happenstance,” it read.
UC-Berkeley states online dating sites offer a plethora of data for scientists
the Mistress vs the Cub | Google deciding what is safe for families now?
apparently Google has decided that while Sugar Daddy sites are ok, Cougar sites are not …reasoning that they can be a liability to families …
spare us the moral lecture, please.
CougarLife, a dating network targeted toward “women in their prime,” has called Google out for sexism because the search engine has classified CougarLife ads as not safe for families. But CougarLife’s CEO says Google doesn’t make the same distinction for “sugar daddy”-type dating sites, whose ads can be seen by anyone.
CougarLife’s site at time of writing is currently down for ‘maintenance’
Appearance is paramount to online success
…a question often asked of my male counterparts is: was it good for you? train wrecks …all of them! they exclaim. none of course appease my curiosity so in an effort to present a fair and balanced view of this process please enjoy this little essay.
it’s Plenty of Fish vs Match.com - rumors are swirling so stay tuned | apparently up for debate are the stats of 20,000 sign-ups POF claim occur daily | remember kids: you get what you pay for | quality vs quantity | the first being a feature POF in this neck of the woods is surely lacking!
iTelebill provides dating sites with mobile payment option
OPW INTERVIEW - Apr 12 - Scott Pattenden is the founder and CEO of iTelebill. His company was founded in 2008 and provides dating sites with the ability to let their members charge subscription fees through their mobile phone by using SMS. They work with Social Gaming, the Adult industry and as of about a year ago, the dating industry as well. - Glenn Millar
Why should a dating site care about offering mobile billing? There’s a large section of the global population that doesn’t have access to a credit card or payment card. Beyond that, in the U.S. alone, about 1/3 of the population doesn’t have credit available on their credit cards as a result of the recession. There’s over 3 billion cell phones globally. So this, combined with many users’ unwillingness to disclose personal and payment data to third parties, makes an alternative payment offering quite essential.
And how important is mobile billing in Europe? The level of credit card penetration in quite a few European markets is very low, particularly compared to the US. So, mobile billing, is even more important in Europe.
What are the key distinctions with the U.S. market? The US market is still underdeveloped with its SMS technology, but after several years of slow progress, the last 12 months have seen phenomenal growth. These gains, coupled with the increased rate of card declines caused by the “credit crunch,” means that Mobile billing in the U.S. has been a real growth sector for us.
