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Online video introduction site WooMe sent me the results of a Harris Interactive poll that point to one of the main reasons why online dating sites fail – because there is no live interaction with video.
I disagree that video is a main reason why online dating sites have trouble attracting new members and creating lasting [...]

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I learned several lessons yesterday after posting incorrect information about personality testing legal issues.
Posting inaccurate information gets people talking more than usual and tends to bring out the worst in people.
You can never be to careful about fact-checking.
Rense Lange, President of IKS wrote in to clarify the situation.

Your statements are absolutely wrong: IKS does not [...]

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An informed insider tells me that Integrated Knowledge Systems claims they have a patent on personality testing and anyone who does personality testing owes them royalities of up to 60% of all revenues. If your dating site has been contacted by IKS I’d like to hear from you, contact me.

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OKCupid is looking more and more like PlentyOfFish every day. First came the sex ads and now we have forums. I trolled the forums this morning for a bit and came away with my head spinning. Where do people have the time to write things like “looking for someone to sever my spinal cord”, which [...]

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World Dating Partners today announced that they have selected BuddyCheck to provide Age & ID Verification Services to its’ members.

The BuddyCheck Age & ID Verification solutions consists of providing a matching technology driven through match codes that will confirm or deny the potential member when signing up for the service behinds the scenes. Verification is [...]

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Data portability is a hot topic amongst the digerati these days. while reading about FacebookConnect. I’m all for being able to display and access your own information across multiple sites.
TechCrunch says Facebook to Open Source Facebook Platform. This is big news for sites looking to use Facebook user data and applications on their sites. How [...]

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Spring is here in Boston. The striped bass are jumping out of the water in Boston harbor down the street, expect some fish pix next week. The grill is out, wifi working on the porch and I’m working with some fantastic clients on making their dating sites more social and viral.
A warm welcome to our [...]

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Alexis at Whywasidissed wrote in to say:
Dating can be difficult, and watching a relationship – or something that could have been a relationship – come to an end is even more difficult. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that often, you’re left without answers.
Calls go un-returned. Emails, unanswered. It’s like one half of the [...]

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Several years ago I worked on a business plan for a speed dating application built on top of Skype. After my conversation with Stephen at WooMe I dug up the feature list and thought it would be interesting to compare what we were thinking about back then with what WooMe and SpeedDate are doing.

Video and [...]

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