Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
What is up with the Safer Online Dating Alliance (SODA)? According to an ODI reader, all that’s known is that it’s run from a P.O. Box in Austin, you have to provide a lot of info to be able to even contact the organization and there doesn’t seem to be a detailed listing of [...]
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I’m off to Vermont for the Holidays and won’t be posting much over the next week. Family time and snowboarding at Stowe are in order to recharge the batteries. Like so many other blogs, we’re doing a server upgrade mid-week, expect a few hiccups along the way and then things should go much smoother around [...]
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Today marks the inaugural Online Dating Insider podcast. I haven’t done my own podcast in many moons, usually I use Skype to talk to the interviewer, and they take the raw audio file and convert it to MP3 after an hour or so tweaking the quality. Consider this an experiment/beta while I get up [...]
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Dan Bender posted the latest Dating Industry Insider podcast at the Singles Podcasting Network where I talk with host Rich Gosse “about the battle between traditional dating websites and social networking sites such as Myspace and Friendster. We get into new products and chat options that Vivox is offering to help both dating and [...]
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Hints and tips on how to identify fake profiles.
What did you do before you got into the online dating industry? (Closed door session.)
Why Christian dating sites shouldn’t share server space with p0rn sites.
Why social networking is finally getting a business model and take your business away unless you take off the blinders and start innovating.
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I wanted to speak at iDate in Miami, but alas, it looks like I am an industry outsider this year. It seems I didn’t get in line early enough and they are overbooked for speakers. It would have been a good opportunity to talk about the industry from an, ahem, pundit’s perspective. I like [...]
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Jon on the PodDater blog sez:
You will be able to conduct a search and subscribe to those search preferences. The results will be delivered to your iTunes application or an RSS reader.
Video profiles downloaded overnight, ready for watching during your commute or downtime throughout the day, or just watch them in iTunes at your desk. [...]
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I’m getting lots of requests for website developers to work on dating and social networking sites. The requirements are broad enough to warrant sending me resume’s and I’ll forward them on to the interested parties. Several years of PHP experience and a portfolio of heavy-duty database-driven sites is important. .NET developers as well. It [...]
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CGI Holding Corporation, which plans to seek shareholder approval to change its name to Think Partnership Inc. (“THK“) today announced that the Company has entered into a letter of intent to acquire Litmus Media, Inc., which has developed and implemented revolutionary real-time “in the clickstream” click fraud detection and protection technology. By protecting advertisers on [...]
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Online dating is really a misnomer. As I’ve often said, people don’t date at a dating site. Dating sites are really online introduction services. They peruse profiles and the dating site acts as an intermediary, passing along anonymous emails and IM’s. Look at a photo, feel the butterflies, send an email, move the conversation over [...]
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