November 14, 2003

Dating online

Christopher L. Filkins

Have you ever found a date through your blog?

Dating sites like Match.com, Spring Street Networks, Love@AOL, etc never allow folks who post personal ads to link to other sites in their ad. Obviously the reason why this is so is because the vendors want to restrict you to their web space so they can garner as much ad revenue as possible. And of course there is always that fee they charge you to contact your potential partner.

What if these vendors turned this on its head and allowed their users to hook a syndication feed from their blog into their profile? Would it completely undercut their business model or is there another way to derive revenue from such a thing? Is there a dating service for bloggers?

Posted by filchyboy at November 14, 2003 10:46 AM
Comments

Wow--this is a really good question. I think one could probably set a blog dating service up independently of any of the dating services using such things as GeoURL (to set up location) and a few other search attributes (your gender, sexual preference, etc). I think Blogchalk more or less would support this search/categorization problem.

But my model probably wouldn't allow for any type of revenue stream....

Posted by: chuck at November 17, 2003 11:33 AM
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