TECH CRUNCH - Jan 25 - Men and women experience online dating very differently. Men typically send out hundreds of emails hoping someone will respond. Women can receive hundreds of emails a week, but respond to less than 2%. Most dating profiles are static and lack social network updates. For most social discovery startups, there is a significant cold-start problem. Few startups are funded well enough to afford the marketing required to achieve scale. No social dating site has gained meaningful traction: theComplete.me (10K), Yoke (10K), Circl.es (1K), LikeBright (1K), thedatable (200), and atthepool.com have struggled. With Graph Search, can Facebook reinvent dating, drive down the associated stigma? Just because someone’s profile indicates they are single does not mean they are ready for dating. On Facebook, receiving messages from strangers feels creepy. Facebook’s profiles are shallow. The real question may be how important is the dating market to Facebook? It will be a challenge to run so many vertical solutions: dating, recruiting, ratings, reviews, etc. Facebook can easily leverage their massive social graph to enable meaningful friend-of-friend introductions. They can create very detailed, self-updating profiles by displaying and structuring data from Pinterest, Spotify, Pandora, Yelp, Netflix, Amazon, ESPN, GoodReads and more. They can dominate real-time communication: chat, check-ins, poke, texting and Skype video chat.
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Brian Bowman: Facebook Is Primed To Disrupt Online Dating
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Circl.es Reaches 10,000 Users
BETAKIT - Jan 15 - Circl.es launched in March 2012 and currently has 10K users concentrated mostly in San Francisco, with a small audience in New York City. Circl.es connects to a user’s Facebook account and without creating any postings or notifications, presents potential dates through their Facebook profiles and basic information. The site touts itself as “built for people who hate online dating.” Circl.es presents potential matches based on proximity and if they meet a user’s criteria. There are other sites like Circl.es, such as TheDatable, yoke.me and theComplete.me (now LikeIt) also using Facebook to power online dating.
by Andrea Ozretic
The full article was originally published at BetaKit, but is no longer available.
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New Dating Sites Let You Meet People Through Friends
MASHABLE - Jan 13 - Sites like Friendlylook, TheDatable and Circl.es let you browse your friends' friends. With Friendlylook, users have the ability to create private social events to meet people in real life. Members also have a "singles stream," that is kind of like a Facebook News Feed. Currently, the team behind Friendlylook is seeking funds on Indiegogo, the crowd-funding platform, in order to build more features. Circl.es and TheDatable have similar ideas — except with these sites you actually connect with Facebook to see friends of your friends.
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New Dating Sites Take Advantage Of Social Networks
HUFFINGTON POST - May 24 - "Facebook has created a shift from online dating to social dating," said online dating expert Julie Spira. Dating sites such as theComplete.me and Circl.es are using social networks, rather than science, to help singles find romance. The creators of these sites say this will help keep users honest and accountable for their actions. "You can't put up a fake picture and misrepresent yourself on Facebook when you have 600 friends," said Circl.es founder Justin Krause. Yoke.me and theComplete.me, match singles based on personal information shared on Facebook. Yoke.me even invites friends to play matchmaker and set up singles they think would hit it off. "It just takes the stigma attached to online dating and melts it away when you realize you know someone in common," said Brian Bowman, CEO of theComplete.Me.
by Bianca Bosker
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Circl.es: The Latest Dating Site That Uses Facebook
TECH CRUNCH - Mar 29 - Circl.es users sign up with Facebook. Circles is also attempting to limit overexposure, as users are served Facebook “snapshots” of potential matches, and they can just click “yes,” “no,” or “skip.” If they click “yes,” both users are notified, Circles sends them both emails, and lets them take it from there. If they click no, they won’t see that snapshot again, and that person never sees their profile. Only the people they’re interested in get to view their profile. When they’ve browsed all the profiles, they hit a “You’ve Seen It All Page,” and that’s it. Circles gives people two weeks to meet up with an interest before the match expires, which is plenty of time to start a conversation. Expiring matches also prevent weeks of endless email reminders, notifications, and spam. Other similar new dating sites are theComplete.me and Yoke.
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