Making a search you'll see that Dating now competes with Social networking Industry. Due to the stats, dating word in search is less popular then Social networking. But as we can see there's a tendency that Dating Sites will be extremely popular again as many Social networks will become Dating Sites with widened opportunities- mixed applications. Having studied the market, we have also updated our Social Networking Software ver. July 2008 with features described in previous post , improved language files and usability. Provided technical documentation for developers. Moreover, Business Social Networking is very popular now in the Net. Sites like LinkedIn and Facebook gather professionals all over the world. That's why administrators try to create something like that and tend to get clones that no one visits as the majority of their people is at old sites. We offer you to create a Niche Business Social network for your region, profession, interest with our Social networking Software! All necessary features are already in the software: Groups, Marketplace (Classifieds), Forums, Blogs, Events,gifts, searches, adjustable site texts (language files), Online and SMS payment systems, Chats, IM, opportunities to monetize site members using services, site access limitations, membership setups, Admin stats, users and uploads track... and many more.[...] Read more!

Pilot Group LTD has announced new release of their Dating Pro Software - Dating Pro July 2008. These days in the industry services became more popular within vendor companies. Though ready-made solutions for your independent business are still very attractive opportunity. They allow you, as site administrator, to better market your site, more professionally target the market, adjust the site options to your needs. Now Dating Pro has tools for you to monetize your members database better like User Account. It allows to use such features as Refer a friend for a fee, order a User Banner at a site, Lift up profile in Search Results, order a Gift at a site, pay for membership. User Account allows you to create lots of additional revenue models to profit with your Site and attract many active users. In July version we have also added SMS Payment Module that includes 3 SMS Payment Systems: Russian Billing, SMS Coin and DaoPay. This option will allow your users fill in their Site account through their phones with SMS. All systems are easy to activate from Admin Mode and you can launch this service whenever necessary. In Dating Pro July 2008 we have concentrated on features improvements like Photo and Video Galleries, additional modules (Gift shop, Events), usability site links, installation scripts, Alerts, Banners sections. [...] Read more!

When you start a new business you should make a research. Dating Business is worth a research due to the niche character of the sphere. When you establish a market-research study for your business, AllBusiness experts advise to follow these basic guidelines: * Use the right sample. The research sample — your study’s group of participants — has to be just the right size. Too large a sample is not cost effective, and too small a sample offers inaccurate results. You also need to have the right samples from your overall population. Even a sample as small as one percent of a market or group will work, as long as the sample truly reflects the overall geographic area or population that you want to query. Comment: For Dating and Social Networking Industries the sample group may be a circle of people living near by, people of some club etc. And the bes thing to study is to let those people make the test run of a site, ask them usability questions. * Mirror the market. Your surveys must reflect all of characteristics of the market from which it is drawn, such as geographical area or population group.[...] Read more!

Dating and Social Networking Mashups are very popular and they make your site more attractive for your members and newcomers. Nowadays, niche social networking is very popular and socializing sections like: Groups, Events, Forums, Blogs are very common features at well-known sites like Facebook or MySpace. Most of the Networks are localized and provide a wide range of events for their users. Other sites offer mapping for the latest events in the area. For example, deciding when and where to go out on a Friday night just got easier for San Francisco consumers with a new, mobile map application that automatically shows where the hotspots are. Sense Networks' CitySense, which just entered alpha, gives users a real-time view of how busy the city is as well as where the busiest places currently are. There's no need to sign up--users simply download the free application onto their Blackberry (iPhone support is coming soon) and view a "heat" map of activity throughout the area, linking to Yelp or Google to zero in for more information about the hotspots. A billion points of GPS and wifi positioning data from the last few years complement the real-time feeds underpinning the technology, which operates on Sense Networks' Macrosense platform.(Macrosense, which is designed for analyzing massive amounts of aggregate, anonymous location data in real-time, is already being used in the business world for selecting store locations and understanding retail demand, for example) Focusing on nightlife, the next version of CitySense will be able to tell users not just where the activity is, but where people like them are concentrated.[...] Read more!

To help the rich and wealthy singles find their perfect match and reduce the online dating risk, MillionaireCupid.com launched some more verification systems. They are bringing more security to their users with their own action. Millionaire Dating: Marry a Millionaire & Date Wealthy Men. Everyone may want to marry a millionaire. But few people can do that. Millionaire Cupid says that it's a place to "Meet rich and wealthy singles for friendship, dating and romance." As is often the case, wealth proves more easily quantifiable than beauty does, so from an objective standpoint, it is difficult to measure one over the other as far as existing members go. However, there is a certified millionaire verification system in place to insure that you can tell whether someone is being honest about the level of financial success achieved. That is really the only feature different than most other online dating sites provide.[...] Read more!