Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
First it was low-tech “Dogging”, where people prowl picnic spots, car parks and other such places to watch strangers having sex. Then it was “Toothing”, people hooking up using the bluetooth functionality of their mobile phones.
Now, it’s naked speed dating. Many young Britons are expected to turn up in the buff at a restaurant [...]
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The Social networking world has embraced mobile phone apps and are leaving the dating world in the dust. Match admits the only thing they get out of mobile dating is exposure to the 20-something audience, revenue is marginal.
Imagine being single and out on Saturday night when all of a sudden your dating services’ matching engine [...]
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As soon as I mentioned Mike’s article this came across the wire. Userplane announced Userplane Web Chat(TM) — a multi-user web text chat room system — and announced the latest deployment of Web Chat on Connexion.org, an increasingly popular destination in the social networking community.
Link.
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Michael Jones, the President of Userplane, wrote an article titled “New Trends Help Seekers Find Love Online” which I’ve posted here in it’s entirety.
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NYTimes article (reg req) about intra-party relationships. Lot’s of niche sites popping up to make sure hawks and doves don’t expose their minds to a different worldview. If you watch Fox News 3 hours a day too, you may want to check out Kelly Larson, 34, from Camas, Wash. Her last serious boyfriend was [...]
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TRUE and Rapsheets are busy verifying that people don’t have roommates. They even have a former Chief of Police of Dallas working with them. Citing a 75 % success rate as extremely accurate, I’m wondering how useful this service really is.
Here’s the rub, “If the program can’t rule out people living in the same household [...]
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FirstMonday has an interesting article called a Manifesto for the Reputation Society.
As I’ve been saying, identity verification from the likes of Trufina, Rapsheets and Verified Person is the next big thing that dating sites will add to address low customer satisfaction and as a byproduct add an additional revenue stream.
Extracting dubious/spotty information from [...]
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Recently I have received several press releases announcing new websites that provide reviews of different personals services. Tryonlinedating.com, DateSeeker.net, DatingSitesReviews.com, eDateReview.com and DatingReviewsOnline.com are just a few of them. Send me the names of other sites worth checking out and I’ll list them here.
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Yahoo! is countering a common trend of dating sites using plastic-looking people in their marketing efforts and web ads.
They’re looking for real singes to star in their new ad campaign. If you’re selected, you’re off to San Francisco in September for an unforgettable photo shoot with the other great singles we’ve chosen. You’ll stay at [...]
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After campaigning to ban fund raising during the budget writing season, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has accepted $20,000 from the co-chairman of MatchNet. Contracostatimes.com has more. (reg. req’d)
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