DISQUS

A year ago Mashable used the headline "Dating on Plentyoffish - Trading Fees for Scumbags?" http://mashable.com/2007/11/27/plentyoffish-gro...

Today you say "The incredibly low cost of providing a dating service makes it difficult to justify payment for the basic level of service"

That is a huge perception change in a year and no doubt others have followed similar thinking. Never mind the fact that 70% of my users have actually paid for online dating previously.

I feel match.com launching a free site will make the general public wonder what if any value paying money for a dating site offers? Especially if users on paid and free sites are identical. As for users who follow web 2.0 and techcrunch/mashable etc they won't really be that into Plentyoffish, or match. Those kind of people like very niche sites like OKcupid or nerve.com

Aff is not freemium.... Its purely subscription

You can't do anything as a free member.

Markus.

Is there a single powerful web company without a dictator/dictators at the top ?

Microsoft
Oracle
Apple
Google ?

Visionary people are people who do what everyone else thinks is impossible. What group of common share holders want to let someone go off and do what is "impossible"

Its higher turn over and that works really really well for affiliate marketing.

For instance you put up a few links to dating sites and anyone that signups up you get $5.00 for. It adds up fast.

There are several apps on facebook making between 1,000 and $10,000/day. If anything this app got sold at a steep discount.

When it comes to math its widely accepted that people do their greatest work in their 20's. By the time you are thirty the chances of you discouvering anything groundbreaking are slim, the time the you are 40 your chances drop to near 0.

Most people over 30 are arm chair generals, Who over thirty has ever created a Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, google etc ?

Ask him what he thinks the most successful web Canadian companies are. You got a lot of domain related companies here, casino, adult etc etc but not sure how many successful companies are actually known outside of the local tech community

Companies complaining that widget views don't count as pageviews is rediculus. When is the last time syndicated content as traffic for Associated Press?

I'm still trying to figure out why google isn't charging newspapers for the privilage of being included. Now newspapers want to charge google for sending them traffic?

Hitwise charges $20,000 a year..

Comscore charts north of $60,000 and those BS stats they release to the public aren't even related to the stats they sell customers. When you see the "real" stats they sell it ends up being close to the other services.

It doesn't work. Even Riya has said if they have more then 1000 images its virtually impossible for them to tell apart more then 50 people. Riya only works when datasets are extremely tiny, ie your photo album, a list of 200 shoes stuff like that.

I assume that Wired is talking about using patterns in speak and chat behavior, freaks stick out in a big big way.

At 2AM you may have had a few to many drinks to make a great video ;)

I don't think i'm out to lunch... What google and others record are peoples intentions, thats is why adwords is a mega billion dollar industry. When people search for things like "buy new homes cityname " or virtual tours cityname it shows they have a strong intention of buying a home. If searches for amazon.com go up it shows that people are buying more goods or products from amazon as traffic is up. Sites like hitwise, yahoo and google can give us that information in near real time and we can see how those searches have been trending in order to figure out how well the company is doing.

I believe data mining and applying that data to the world of finance in the form of playing options and futures is a far bigger market then the $10 billion a year that google currently makes. This kind of information is game changing.

thanks for the mention.. Last time I was in San Fran for ad-tech I got to hang out with most of the playmates of the year does that count? The whole adult/ web industry is insanely connected.

I will stick to dating and not singing, its more profitable :)

Should be no great surprise he is banned. He has got to be the rudest meanest person I have ever met.

Drew its hard to get those kind of CPM's, but if you get that much revenue hook me up :)

At $8.00 CPM i'd be earning 18,000 * 8 = $144,000/day

Ya but a lot of this stuff is one time expenses. That and CPU power is doubling every 18 months...

Comscore = Absolute unique visitors per month.

hitwise = Average daily VISITORS

Comscore = Advertising breath, Hitwise = Actual usage

Making money online has more to do with your page layout and ad positioning then it does with picking the right program.

Take your adsense banner, blend in the background and put it under the header of your first post on the homepage. You will make more money in one day then you've made all month.

I call bullshit on that one...

Asp.net 3.0 already? I just wrote about how great 2.0 is here.

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/mi...

Since 3.0 is using the 2.0 run CLR I guess there is no real reason to upgrade for a long time.

You wimps, i get over 1,000 emails a day :(

Only 30% or so of users will change the default... The power of being default trumps nearly everything.

sounds like a gimmick to lure in stupid marketers. Trying to con markets into believing stuff like "cost per influence" just won't fly in a world dominated by Cost per action. The internet has allowed marketers to be able to track ROI on every advertising dollar spent. I can't see people buying into the brand marketing arguement, if there are cheaper places to spend more money that have a greater effect