With Valentine’s Day just on the horizon, I thought I’d get together the obligatory festive blog post.
Love is in the air
between Facebook and mobile payments solution firm Bango as they signed
an agreement this week. Although the love nest may be a little crowded,
with deals already drawn up with Amazon and EA, the new relationship
with Bango indicates that Facebook is keen to replicate on mobile the
success of in-app purchases via desktop. With all the distinct pleasures
of sharing and competing with friends, in the most convenient way
possible, is there a social mobile app store on the horizon?
Relations
have become increasingly frosty between Apple and rogue developers who
are playing the App Store system to get high rankings, and therefore
more downloads. We have always advised our partners against such
practices, offering them advertising-led solutions instead. Apple takes
very seriously its position in high quality and rigorous standards. Hell
hath no fury like a tech giant scorned.
Sad news
from The Verge this week; online dating site algorithms don’t
necessarily bear any relation to how well you might suit potential love
matches found on the net. We’d have thought the last place techy jargon
would help would be in the dating game, instead hoping a mutual love of
hockey would be a good start, and that the secret fascination with
badger baiting might be something you could learn to enjoy together…
There really is nothing like distilling anything and everything into
numbers and pictures, so here’s some excellent Valentine’s infographics:
For the singleton, ever gotten a date online?
Find the most popular online dating sites, breakdown of users, and the
things men and women are most likely to lie about on their profile…
For romantics, how to pull of the perfect marriage proposal.
88% of people are waiting for their soulmate, 50% of people blow the
surprise, and the average age for marriage in the US is 27 for women and
29 for men. So either breathe a sigh of relief of start to panic!
And for those who can’t get enough love, Valentine’s Day by Numbers. Did you know, the festival of fertility was first celebrated in Ancient Rome?
And finally, an elaborate proposal. You’d have to be very confident she was going to say yes!
Written for Somo and first published here: http://www.somoglobal.com/news/love-is-in-the-air-facebook-and-bango-deal-strained-relationship-between-apple-and-developers-and-valentines-infographics/
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