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Audio Video

Another Woman Kidnapped on Craigslist

by David Evans on May 27, 2009   in Audio Video, Safety

Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]

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Nation’s Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan

by David Evans on May 26, 2009   in Audio Video

Nation’s Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: ‘Let’s Move In Together’

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Upstarts Eye Userplane

by David Evans on May 12, 2009   in Audio Video

Talked to Nick from Topicfox today. For those keeping score, Topicfox offers white label instant messaging solutions, whereas Toskta appears to be more of a webchat service, according to Nick.
Nick says that in the next week or so the sandbox for testing Topicfox will be live and that within two months they will have several [...]

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Swap Userplane Chat for Topicfox

by David Evans on May 10, 2009   in Audio Video

Userplane has been quiet about the rumor they are being shut down by AOL. However, the writing is on the wall. Ex-Userplane staff have launched Topicfox, which offers Userplane customers white label social networking tools as a drop-in replacement for the beleaguered social applications company’s products and services.

My name is Nick Schneble, and I used [...]

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What’s Up With Userplane?

by David Evans on May 6, 2009   in Audio Video

There is some buzz this week about Userplane shutting down, although until I hear from Janet or someone else on the team I’m going to hold off on linkbait blog titles like at OPW. If in fact Userplane is shutting down, dating sites are going to have to find an alternative chat client, or simply [...]

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Viral Video Bidding Closed

by David Evans on April 30, 2009   in Audio Video

Thank you for playing “Let’s buy a professionally-produced viral video at a fraction of the cost.” We’re finishing up the final bids and putting the impromptu auction to bed. Thanks to all of you who contacted me about the opportunity. I’ll be reaching out to each of you to discuss other viral video options.

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Toksta Videochat Taking On Userplane

by David Evans on February 20, 2009   in Audio Video

Looks like Userplane has some competition in Toksta, which I learned about at iDate last month. Supposedly Toksta beats userplane on price and depth of integration, with toksta all of your friends/favorites, ignores, profile pictures etc. from the community/dating site are automatically synchronized with the IM. Publishers may sell their own ads as well. They [...]

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Milabra CEO Sam Cox explains how Milabra image recognition works in this Beet.TV story. Watch the video for an in-depth description of Milabra image management services. Congrats to Milabra on their recent $1.4 million financing round.

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Introducing Video Comments to Online Dating Insider

by David Evans on January 10, 2009   in Audio Video

You can now leave a video comment on any post.
You’ll need to set up an account at Seesmic and have a webcam and a microphone.
If the feature is abused it will be removed, have at it.

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WooMe Launches WooMeTV

by David Evans on September 23, 2008   in Audio Video

WooMeTV went live today. The original Woome made it fun to jump into conversations with random people. But what about the rest of us who can’t make it into these videochats? WooMeTV is the logical progression of WooMe, basically an archive of WooMe sessions.
WooMeTV is for people have grown tired of looking at social network [...]

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