Many Body Theory

Check out the screen-shots below.

Does the new homepage of Ignighter.com look familiar? They blatantly stole Singlesnet design including the text used. It looks like this is something they asked a developer to just hack up and did a really poor job trying to duplicate the look and feel. Nothing about their new homepage looks original.

On a separate note — Ignighter has an affiliate program with Neverblue and I’d be interested to hear if anyone has any success with it. According to the program’s description they are paying $7.50 for someone to enter in a free trial (credit card submission). I can’t imagine anyone making it work at these price-points (including Ignighter internally).

Zoosk was recently featured in TechCrunch. A few weeks ago we hit acquired our 40 millionth user and reached a 30M/yr run-rate for revenue.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/20/zoosk-hits-40-million-members-eyes-20-million-in-revenue-this-year/

Recently we launched a new desktop application for Windows, Macs and Linux computers. You can check your Zoosk messages without ever opening up your internet browser… SICK

Our community manager wrote a blog about it recently: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=115921932882

Outside of the part where she mentions “download here” is her quote “Monday just went from blaaaahhh to YAYYYYY”

If you have not checked out Zoosk — you should.

I will be in NYC from August 7th to 11th

Let me know if you want to meet up.

For those of you readers who are Zoosk users — we just launched a mobile version of our site.

http://m.zoosk.com

This was actually launched about a month ago but I haven’t had that much time to post about it. There are a lot of features that we are still going to be add which will enhance the mobile experience but I wanted to make a post about how proud I am of the Zoosk team for pushing this out.

So I had a court case in Chicago later today… I showed up about 55 minutes before my flight and because it was already under an hour someone on standby took my seat.

Delta/North West Airlines sucks hardcore.

One of the co-founders at Zoosk just noticed that we are now one of the top 500 most visited websites on the web according to Quantcast.

This makes us bigger than Mate1, Date.com, OkCupid and a lot other dating websites.

We recently launched a few competitive offers for affiliates which will help us grow from 500 to top 100 over the next couple of months.

Zoosk.com — the second largest paid dating site in the UK (no big deal) is hiring in its marketing department.

I don’t know if I mentioned this in a previous post so just in case… shoot me a note and we’ll see if you’re a match for our online marketing team.

I want to thank the team at Clickbooth for sending me some free stuff yesterday. I received an instant-message from Eric (twitter: @clickbooth) making sure that I was at my office and about 30 minutes later FedEx knocked on the door.

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SpeedDate.com is a pretty shady company. Less than 24 hours after my first post covering how shady speeddate is they took down their subscription page. When I noticed that their new subscription page looked familar I asked myself why… then it occured to me that SpeedDate has now stolen the MyLife subscription page. You can read the post about it from Chris Watkins, the UI Designer for Zoosk.