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OK Cupid’s Sam Yagan Boston Globe Interview. Great backstory.

Four questions to Alex Panelli, CEO, Trilibis Mobile:

We recently launched MatchMobile in partnership with Match.com. The original launch included availability of a fully integrated mobile dating service in the US, UK and Canada. We will be deploying the service in additional 9 markets (and 9 languages) by the end of the year.

Lots of meeting this week. Image search, identity products, games and some other stuff I can’t talk about yet. It’s amazing what’s going on at the large dating sites. I now know that when I catch onto something, it takes about two years for the vendors and major dating sites to catch up with something people can actually use.

I have conversations scheduled with Susan Mernit at Yahoo and Match’s new PR director. I’ll post what I can here to give you an insiders view of what’s going on at the largest dating sites in coming weeks.

Another outrageous claim from Markus, who says it’s all over for AdSense. Outrageous! Speaking of Plentyoffish, “For those of you doing site targetted campaigns via  Google Adwords on  plentyoffish.com there are now new channels you can bid on instead of just Run of Site.”

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