Is There Such A Thing As A Lesbian Man?
The Internet is a pretty useful tool when it comes to finding information on just about everything. Some of the stuff you’ll see can be very interesting, some is amusing and there are times when you come across something that’s downright confusing. For me, finding a male profile in a lesbian dating site belongs to the latter. This was the first time I encountered a guy, claiming to be a lesbian guy, looking for a pretty lesbian girl for a long-term relationship. It makes me wonder. Is there really such a thing as a lesbian man? If there is, how do you define what a lesbian man really is?
Flirting And The Italian Man
Before I met my girlfriend in college, I tried many ways to meet and possibly get into a relationship with a girl. Well, there’s the “we-share-interests” approach, but that only works if you do share interests with the girl (and it’s hard to find a girl in a bar with a passion for computer games). There’s also the “let-me-buy-you-a-drink” approach, which doesn’t really work, but I’ve never tried using a cheesy pick-up line just to get a girl’s attention. You know, “Is your dad a terrorist? Because you’re the bomb baby!” That’s just pathetic. However, I learned how to be a good flirt when I became buddies with an Italian man that I met in class.
Dating Research, Marketing and Retention Curves
Cleaning out the draft blog folder today, a bunch of posts from all over the place I hope you will find interesting and inspiring.
Matt Humphrey of Bumba Labs on User Retention Curves (Andrew Chen)
It’s easy to think of retention percentages in the 90’s as good. It just feels good. But over the course of time, products in the low-to-mid 90’s will fade super-fast, and ones only slightly more sticky will do much, much better. Single percentage points here are mission critical, that’s why attention to detail and rigorous analytics become so important on the web.
Online dating sites are going to have to dig deeper into analytics and Customer Relationship Management. I was glad to hear this mentioned all too briefly at the final iDate LA panel.
Sense Networks gets $6M in hotly contested deal for “tribe” advertising.
Sense doesn’t require a direct relationship with the consumer. Instead, it might partner with companies like mobile social networking company, Loopt, for example. After I’ve opted in to use Loopt’s service, that service gets updates from my GPS-enabled phone about where I am at any given time. Loopt then provides that data to Sense, which anonymizes the data (Sense isn’t interested in identifying your name or other specific information about you), and can help Loopt run more relevant advertising.
This could be a great idea for dating sites as well. I brought this up the concept in one of the mobile sessions at iDate. Everyone freaks out about anonymity though, which is simply a challenge to overcome and should not keep the dating industry from embracing location-based services of all types, not just mobile.
I see a lot of pr0n sites (early adopters as always) using technology similar to Live Face. Talking heads on dating sites might work, it’s all in the copywriting.
SpyFu shows what the competition is paying for keywords like online dating.
SeleniumHQ Web application testing system.
Will dating sites suffer from Data Center Overload?(NY Times).
Utherverse, an adult 3D social/dating network.
Michael Norton worked on the paper People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates with professor Dan Ariely. Ravit at Omnidate references this paper often.
Eric Klaassen at Dating Facts wrote about a recent research study, Online dater search too long, and too little dating. (translated).
Researchers Skeptical of Claims by Online Dating Sites.
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Related posts:
- Loopt Now on Every U.S Carrier
- Focusing on niche sites
- Social Networking Conference, Barcelona, October 1-2
PlentyofFish Gets into Rap
Guess what dating site features a rap video? It took a while for me to find it, here’s the link to the Flo Rida video on PlentyofFish. The video says “Even music stars find love on POF…” Did Flo Rida find a date in POF? That would be great free publicity for the site if it’s true.
The video has the POF website featured in the background, which seems like a first for a rap video. Not exactly Must Love Dogs, but popular rap videos and POF just might be a good match. POF users, prepare for an onslaught of thugz and playas comin’ at ya (is this a good thing?) I hear eHarmony is cutting a deal to feature Christian devotional songs on the home page. I joke.
POF, check your spelling of Flo Rida in the press release. Took me a moment to figure out that Flo Rida=Florida.
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Related posts:
- Focusing on niche sites
- Online Dating Insider Consulting, Subscriptions and Sponsorship
- Verified Person gets $12M
BBW Beauty Is The New Look For The Season
The stick-thin figure is so last century. The new look of the season is big and chunky. That’s right, BBW beauty is in and I sincerely hope that this will make BBW dating more appealing. Truth is, I’m a guy with a juicy booty and even though I’m proud of it, it was still hard to get a date when I was single. I hope this new trend will crossover to the dating game, so it will make finding love easier for those who are big and unattached. Anyway, before anyone can go out and start playing the field, one must be armed with tough skin and confidence that will make them stand out.



