Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
OKCupid has gone through a redesign. I like the new recent activity tabs, makes it easy to see what others are up to. Many forward-looking dating sites are implementing activity streams. If you know what a Facebook wall is, that’s basically what dating sites are beginning to offer.
I checked out the forum, there is a [...]
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People often ask me for references to great developers to build their dating sites. I’ve found it tremendously difficult to find reliable developers fluent in various dating platform programming dialects, so I’ve been digging around for resources. Here’s one from The Thifty Geek, Comparing the Online Freelance/Consulting sites. This isn’t a list of developers, but [...]
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Pandora’s box has been opened. Gays weren’t enough, now eHarmony is in the hotseat for not catering to bisexuals. Where is the logical end to the types of people eHarmony must serve. Unhappy polygamists? (thanks to anonymous for this.)
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I had a great lunch with TrustPlus founder Shawn Broderick. TrustPlus helps people trust by letting them view the reputations of others and by building their own reputations – anywhere on the Web. TrustPlus is building a community of trust, giving people the tools to weed out fraudulent buyers and sellers, assess a potential friend, [...]
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Ugh, I feel fat and I’m crashing from my tryptophan high. I’ve got a lot of posts queued up for the next several days. Enjoy the weekend and drive/travel safe.
What are Bone Fish’s up-coming plans?
Bone Fish has very recently expanded its entire team so that it can ensure a smoother running of the entire service [...]
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Eric McKinley, a gay man from New Jersey, sued eHarmony to let him be a member. Just in time for Proposition 8, Eric got his wish. Now gays can meet online, fall in love, and still not get married in most states.
eHarmony, Inc. legal counsel Theodore B. Olson:
Even though we believed that the complaint resulted [...]
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I just noticed that Online Personals Watch is calling their weekly update Internet Dating Insider. Perhaps that will drive more traffic here to Online Dating Insider.
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Match has a contextual advertising system featuring “Audience Cubes,” which “give advertisers the ability to reach desirable audience segments with the accuracy and scale they demand in today’s competitive online ad space.”
Imagine new Match.com members in this situation- should I click the links to learn how Match works and find the person of my dreams, [...]
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Online goods provider viximo must be busy, they forgot to tell me they were featured on TechCrunch.
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Another good domain for sale, meet.com. Owner is offering url outright sale or lease, or for partnership with an existing or in-development business who is interested in this simple and memorable url. Contact meetdotcom@gmail.com.
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