From the category archives:

Dating Software

SkaDate Dating Software Updated

by David Evans on August 19, 2008   in Dating Software

SkaDate, an advertiser here on Online Dating Insider, has released an update to their dating platform. New languages and lots of improvements to look forward to.

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Friday Snow Day Post

by David Evans on February 22, 2008   in Dating Sites, Dating Software, Marketing, Safety, Social Networking

Boston is getting a lot of snow today, tonight the snow shoes come out!
I’m sorry to say that Consumating is joining the TechCrunch Deadpool on March 15. I talked with founder Ben Brown many times when they were starting up and during the transition after CNET bought them in 2006. I loved the concept, turns [...]

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Understanding Open Social

by David Evans on January 28, 2008   in Dating Software, Social Networking, Technology

Many people have written to ask about Google’s OpenSocial initiative, so I thought I would put a few resources together to get people started thinking about how dating and OpenSocial can work together to improve the online dating experience.
OpenSocial defined:

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript [...]

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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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Skadate Weighs in on Dating Software

by David Evans on January 19, 2008   in Dating Software

Emil Sarnogoev at SkaDate left a long and detailed comment on the recent post about online dating software. A great read if you’re interested in dating software at any level.

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The Status of Online Dating Software

by David Evans on January 16, 2008   in Dating Software, Technology

I had a good conversation yesterday with a developer who works with various dating and social networking scripts. I ended up venting for a good part of the call which led me to do some thinking about the status of online dating scripts.
I get many calls an emails from startups looking for the best dating [...]

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Boonex Plans for 2008

by David Evans on January 15, 2008   in Dating Software

Boonex is a primary provider of dating site systems. This is taken from the Boonex year-end email. In 2008 I’d like to hear more from Boonex, SkaDate and other vendors. Send in your news and get your name out in front of people in the process of selecting dating site software.
A Present
Yup yup.. we got [...]

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World Dating Partners Alliance Details

by David Evans on December 22, 2007   in Dating Software

Robert Fathers, CEO of World Dating Partners, wrote in to clarify details about the deal with Relationship Exchange as well as give us a good look into WDP operations marketing and plans for 2008.
Relationship Exchange partners have been very loyal despite some hiccups in
the past, all the main partners at RE are transferring to WDP [...]

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World Dating Partners, a leading online dating platform provider, today announced its strategic alliance with Think Partnership’s Relationship Exchange, to form one of the largest dating membership databases of over 20 million members.
Once you strip out the PR hyperbole it comes down to this. Relationship Exchange will use World dating Partners platform to run all [...]

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Chats Robots Getting Smarter

by David Evans on December 13, 2007   in Dating Software, Safety

Question: When did anonymous text chat jump the shark?
Answer: Today.
A Russian website called CyberLover.ru is advertising a software tool that, it says, can simulate flirtatious chatroom exchanges. It boasts that it can chat up as many as 10 women at the same time and persuade them to hand over phone numbers.
The program, so far available [...]

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