Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]
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Online Dating Insider sponsor HonestyOnline is now providing identify verification to speed dating services.
FastLife.com, the world’s largest speed dating service, has partnered with Honestly Online Inc. to launch Prestige Speed Dating, designed exclusively for established singles concerned about the personal history of the people they date. Set to launch Thursday, September 25th in New York [...]
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Match.com will start advertising to affluent singles.
The new Honesty Online blog.
I grow weary of signing up for new dating sites. Does anyone actually think to ask if their questions are any good? Why don’t dating sites link to popular photo-sharing sites? I have to open up iPhoto, find a photo crop/export it to desktop, then [...]
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Law enforcement officials are charging that the online social network MySpace has discovered thousands of known sex offenders using its service, but has failed to act on the information. So much for the Sentinel Sentry sex offender database.
Hemanshu Nigam, the chief security officer of MySpace, supports legislation requiring convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail [...]
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My comments on Markus commenting on PlentyOfFish Changing Direction.
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My friend GPC, who used to do PR for eHarmony, went to the Web Innovators Group last night in Cambridge. I am deep into a project and couldn’t tear myself from the monitor and Greg was nice enough to post his review of the companies that presented.
One company which stuck out was TrustPlus, which is [...]
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Read/WriteWeb has an overview of identity verification services. Having worked with Trufina and Opinity, I am intimately familiar with how they operate and current issues that need to be addressed if these companies hope to succeed.
At first, background checks were a solution looking for a problem. The thinking was along the lines of “We [...]
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TechCrunch has a review of ProfileLinker, a Boston-based (for now) company working on aggregating your social networking experience.
You tell ProfileLinker your site credentials and it pulls your bio, friends and other information from those sites and centralizes it. You then use ProfileLinker to manage your activity on those networks: aggregate and manage multiple social profiles; [...]
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Busy day, few things you should know about. One-time client Trufina has announced a new free service. No link to press release on their own website, hrrumpf.
College Park, Md.–Trufina Inc., a leader in the Online Identity
Verification space, announces today a unique initiative to bring
verified personal information to the Internet community–at no charge.
With Trufina, a subscriber [...]
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LookBetterOnline is good for new (albeit expensive) personal ad photos, although there are several alternatives.
Photochop is a San Francisco company, founded last year, that will help you remove your personal shortcomings during this vanity-filled season of holiday photo-taking and sending.
I like that you only pay if you are satisfied with the results online. I guarantee [...]
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