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I’ve received some general feedback from attendees of last week’s Internet Dating Conference, which took place in Shanghai, May 17-18, 2007. Here are photos from the event. I realize this isn’t much. If you were there, leave your thoughts on the event in the comments.
30 people attended.
Duane Dahl, founder of PerfectMatch was a no-show speaker. [...]

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I hear there are 120 people at the iDate show in Prague. If you are one of the intrepid 120, send in your thoughts on quality of presentations, attendance and overall value of the show. Send photos to, snap ‘em with your camera phone and email to relaxedguy at gmail dot com. Tell us, was [...]

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Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announced the Mobile Dating Conference and European Online Personals Conference to be held on September 25-26, 2006 in Amsterdam at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel.

The Wireless and Mobile Dating Conference and Expo will focus on management, technology and marketing for the mobile and wireless dating industry. The European Internet Dating Conference will [...]

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If you attended the event this week, take a moment and leave a comment with your thoughts on the event. Was it well attended? Who was there? Deals being made? Worth the time/trip/price? Curious how these “off-season” events are faring now that we’re down to one major dating conference a year in the US.

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1) Are you going to the iDate Background Check Conference in San Francisco next month?

The 9th Internet Dating Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on July 13-14, 2006. The event will cover hot topics that affect the current state of the online dating industry, two of the highly salient issues being [...]

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Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces the second annual Asian Internet Dating Conference to be held on May 18-19, 2006 in Beijing at the Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center.

The Beijing Online Dating Conference will focus on management, technology and marketing to Asia and the Far East for the online personals industry. The focus of this year’s event [...]

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Vivox came up with the phrase “graduated communication” which describes the act of moving from wink to IM to video seamlessly within the context of a conversation. I like the phrase contextual communication even better, but then this morning I realized I’m more comfortable with the term “progressive communication”, so that’s what I’m going to [...]

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I appreciate the comments people have been leaving. Nothing bad happened to me, in fact it’s all good. From what I can tell, iDate continues to be a decent show. Attendance was slightly down from last year, which doesn’t surprise me. As usual, the interesting stuff was happening in the hallways. Lot’s of people bailing [...]

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Due to various circumstances I was not able to attend iDate. If you attended, send in your reports of the show. I’m hoping several readers people will sharing their thoughts and photos to give the rest of us an idea of what went on.

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