Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Pendulum Communications has launched a scam and fraud consulting service.
Scam Vigilante will focus exclusively on assisting online relationship providers who are concerned about this crisis and the outcome it will have on their ability to keep membership levels growing, maintain a strong brand name, meet revenue projections and keep shareholders and investors happy.
Founder Greg Moore:
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My celebrity peeps are always complaining they need more friends. Often, when signing autographs outside a trendy LA nightclub, they opine wistfully about the meaning of life and how lonely they feel.
I hate to see friends unhappy, so I decided to check out Couplets. Couplets.com is a social network offering a new way for [...]
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Match.com has launched its new Make Love Happen(TM) Guarantee. The guarantee promises new subscribers they’ll meet someone special in six months or less, or Match.com will give them an additional six-month subscription for free.
New Match.com members who sign up by November 30th are eligible for the guarantee as long as they follow a few very [...]
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I was hopping mad when I heard that only 1 in 10 people have even heard of RSS, and a mere 2 percent actually use it. When can I finally start a post, “As more and more people adopt RSS newsreaders for keeping up with their news..?”
There are currently 216 RSS subscribers for this [...]
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Thomas Technologies International, a leader in private-label behavioral assessment software and related personality reporting, has partnered with JLove LLC to offer JType™– a customized suite of Thomas’ web-dating applications.
Yoav Cohen, JLove’s founder and CEO:
JLove caters to professional, educated, serious minded Jewish singles looking for solid relationships. We’re committed to providing our members with quality features [...]
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Amazon launched aStore, an easy to set up affiliate tool, this week and I decided to create a small store to test the system. Behold the Online Dating Insider Store. Right now it’s only books and very simple. I’ll be playing around with it, adding and moving items around over the next few weeks. In [...]
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Master Skype mashup king Hans Blaauw has built a when2date, a dating site that integrates Skype and Rapleaf, a reputation management system I’m familiar with due to their partner status with Opinity, an identity management service provider I’m advising.
Rapleaf has also announced Rapleaf for Skype, a plug-in that embeds your reputation score into Skype. Useful [...]
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Now that Google has hired most of the big brains in academia, Yahoo is rushing to catch up.
In the dating space, Yahoo is hiring PhD’s to figure out how to use economics to save attractive women from unwanted solicitations on an Internet dating site. While displaying how many people a guy has already [...]
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After taking a few days to go camping and hiking in New Hampshire I logged into Match.com from someone else’s computer. Look at how awful the home page looks. So much text which has been tweaked for search engines and mostly useless to humans. Why do they ask eight questions on the home page? [...]
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At least once a week I upload a new photo to my personal ad, only to have it cropped to the point where you can count my nose hairs. Dating sites are forcing people to display photos without much context. I often wonder if a person is dancing, in bed or on the beach because [...]
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