Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
Rachel DeAlto is on a mission. A “flirt and relationship expert“, she is als a practicing trial attorney the Founder and CEO of FlipMe Flirting Cards. DeAlto is positioning herself right in between Laurie Davis and Lori Cheek. I get several press releases every week from women who purport to be dating experts, its a very noisy market [...]
At the beach on Cape Cod this week, lots of seals but haven’t see any great white sharks yet. Perfect weather for grilling and chilling. A few weeks ago I mentioned Klik, a cool facial recognition app based on Face..com’s API that identifies people by name when you take their photo. Since then, Facebook acquired Face.com, and [...]
OKCupid CEO Sam Yagan gave a presentation at the Digiday Data Marketing Summit. This is a fantastic slide deck, required reading for the entire dating industry. Complete with all sorts of juicy stats on member demographics, messaging trends and even some dating tips. Oh how I wish dating sites would de-silo their findings and share like [...]
Device reputation firm iovation did some research and found that the online dating fraud rate originating from Europe grew 357% between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012. The exact breakdown was: Q1 2011 = .22 Q2 2011 = .50 Q3 2011 = .66 Q4 2011 = .73 Q1 2012 = 1.02 This is great news for iovation’s business [...]
While we wait for society and dating sites to figure out how to do video profiles and videochat, the dating industry has had one option when it comes to getting past static profiles. OmniDate, which many readers will remember from iDates past, was the only pure-play avatar-based dating system. When I first tried Omnidate I sketched [...]
Time for some advertiser love and some considerations to ponder regarding what it takes to build a dating site with pre-fab’d dating software. Boonex announces an updated iPhone Android app for Dolphin, Mobile Licenses for $199. Dolphin replication and Dolphin cluster setup (is anyone else doing this with packaged dating site sofware?) Places Module with Events integration: create locations like hotels, clubs, restaurants, [...]
The High Court rejected claims made by US online dating company Plentyoffish Media that it was entitled to assert rights over UK-registered trademarks because it had high UK visitor numbers to its website. The domain UDate.org is for sale. Email Lee @ lbraxton03@gmail.com for details. eHarmony Australia has recently released their new iPad app, eHarmony HD, available for [...]
Heading to the Harpoon Octoberfest party on the waterfront tonight along with a few thousand other dejected Red Sox fans. This has been a trying month, not only in baseball, but getting blog posts out. Don’t you worry, lots of good stuff coming down the pipe. HowAboutWe Powers Someecards: One of my favorite weekly emails is from someecards. [...]
Longtime sponsor Boonex has announced the release of Dolphin 7.0.7. 100 improvements, fixes and new features. Along with being a generally improved package it brings some substantial additions: support for 3rd-party mobile apps and Page Access Control. Hosting HostForWeb is the first official BoonEx hosting partner, starting at less than $4/month. July Special Offer Mobile Apps license [...]
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