Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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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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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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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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A group of 20-somethings has created a website called Girls Teach Guys. The idea behind the site is to publish real and uncensored advice and tips from the opposite sex. The advice is provided as video clips, most look like they were recorded with webcams, although some appear to be professionally made.
I just sat through [...]
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OmniDate has landed it’s first dating site as a customer. Ireland’s AnotherFriend now offers virtual dating to it’s 200,000 members.
OmniDate is a mashup up Userplane, IMVU and OKCupid.
OmniDate says that sites that don’t use their system are second rate. Perhaps not the best way to introduce yourself to the industry. That’s desperation marketing, whereas OmniDate [...]
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HonestyOnline had a video clip from iDate and I just happened to be the lead-in voiceover. I threw it on YouTube, one of these days I’ll get around to digitizing the entire show.
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So I’m getting my daily dose of BoingBoing, watching the Porter Report video of beatbox impressario Beardyman, and the interstitial advertisement for Cisco kicks in, asking how would online dating be different if profiles included video. Check out the comments.
Many dating sites have tried to add video profiles. I have a whole category dedicated to [...]
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The E! True Hollywood Stories Investigates: Dating Nightmares show about the dangers of dating that I’ve been waiting to see aired last night. I don’t normally stay home on Friday night to watch tv but this show was special.
Several months ago I was approached by E! about being on a show. This was right before [...]
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