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New features at Yahoo! Personals continue to pop up unannounced. Here we see the ability to select which information is displayed at the top of people’s profiles. I changed mine up immediately, the previously-displayed information wasn’t right for me, now I can quickly see the few datapoints that get me to keep reading.
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And what a week it’s been. Scientific Match, Vidoop and Iovation interviews. Trade show booths shipped off to iDate. Attended the virtual conference, had several new business meetings and responded to the usual press calls and a broken windshield to top it off. Tonight it’s all about DJ Spooky at the ICA, which is just [...]

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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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I have no idea how long this has been a feature because Match never promotes anything on the site but tonight I stumbled across the Match My Friends Feature.
I posted a matchmyfriends2.pdf screenshot of the service so you can check it out.
Basically, Match wants you to create profiles for your friends who are too lazy [...]

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Date.com has implemented an exit survey powered by Upsellit. They are a previous client, but I never heard about these new items on the website.
On their quizzes page they have “Cool stuff to stick on your blog”, including a quiz and a hot or not calculator. I like how you have to take the quiz [...]

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I just got off the phone with Sam Yagan at OKCupid. Sam walked me through a demo of a new site they are launching soon. Without giving away the store, I will say that the new service brings singles together like no other dating site I’ve ever seen before.
The service won’t be for everyone, but [...]

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I’m enjoying editing my Match profile every few days, adding the date and uploading new photos like it’s a blog. Only problem is there are very few interesting people on Match around Boston. So I’m moving over to Yahoo Personals because I can’t find a niche site thats right for me. I miss the old  [...]

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PlanetOut Sells Majority Stake For $26.2 Million.
Y! Personals is just another Fat man.
MySpace API taking shape. Just how relevant is Myspace?
Collaboradate launches public beta. Take every possible viral marketing, widget, customized home page feature and mash it up with a dating site. Oh me oh my.

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After several years of losing ground to competitors and upstarts like Match.com and eHarmony, Yahoo! Personals is updating it’s creaky dating application and bringing it up to par with other paid dating services.
The new dating platform should make it easier to roll out new services. Although little is known about the “blazing efficient datamap”, new [...]

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