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Social communications company Jaxtr has just released a new destination called Jaxtr Cafe. Jaxtr is creating a social network on the go, allowing you to participate in your favorite discussions while mobile. Jaxtr has successfully completed eleven months of beta testing and today released version 1.0 of its service. The centerpiece of the 1.0 [...]

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I am meeting with Eric Holzle, founder of Scientific Match, and will post details soon. In the meantime, information at TheBostonChannel and the Northeastern News.
Jeff at Longtail Studios wrote to let us know about HurryDate’s SpeedDaters.

Advanced Mobile Applications and Longtail Studios, in association with HurryDate® today announced the release of the first mobile speed dating [...]

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Online dating juggernaut Singlesnet is sponsoring a comedic reality dating show called Date Court, which launched at Zango. The six-episode series — available only at Zango.com — was produced by Telepictures Productions for Studio 2.0, the digital production division of the Warner Bros. Television Group.
The show requires Internet Explorer on Windows, so I won’t be [...]

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Viibee.com

Viibee’s main idea is that above all online dating should be fun. We try to keep away from happy couple pictures and success stories because we believe that this only exercises pressure upon the members. Moreover, we took some care to give the site a visually appealing look, because we believe this adds to the [...]

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The speed dating market continues to get serious about bringing people together via microphone and webcam.
SpeedDate.com, the world’s first online speed dating website, secured an exclusive license to U.S. Patent Number 7,203,674 covering key aspects of online speed dating. The agreement further solidifies SpeedDate.com’s position at the forefront of an online dating industry moving towards [...]

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myMatchPod says its the first online dating widget to offer free live speed dating via webcams. I guess they were so busy getting the application built that they failed to pay attention to the other 10 companies fighting for supremacy in the burgeoning videodating market.

Joining in on the fun is fast and easy. All that [...]

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Scoop! In a few hours, Date.com will release an interactive toolbar that lets singles find dates in real time wherever they are on the web. The toolbar, which is available for both paying and non-paying members, enables
singles to appear online and available to other Date.com members even when they are browsing
other Internet sites.
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Lately the online dating industry has seen a lot of activity in anonymous calling and what I call progressive communication, where dating sites offer services which facilitate bridging the gap between the first wink, email and phone call to set up a date.
To that end, and to cover the whole disclaimer issue (unlike some other [...]

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Speaking of dating and video, a Saul M. Detofsky wrote me, saying, ” Call me soon. It’s later than you think when I get on TV.” Of course I had to check him out, as I had no idea what he was talking about.
Behold, the Let’s Meet TV Show:
Let’s Meet is the first to showcase [...]

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