Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the category archives:
Swedish mobile software firm The Astonishing Tribe has created a mobile application called Recognizr, a facial recognition service based on a mashup of face recognition technology, computer vision, cloud computing, and augmented reality.
Point your phone at someone’s face and Recognizr’s face recognition software creates a 3-D model of the person’s face and uploads it to [...]
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Free dating site Youandme has integrated Honesty Online and iovation as part of their safety and security measures.
Steven Sikes, one of youandme’s founders says:
“We easily could have over 50,000 online dating members, but we’ve banned thousands of spammers and scammers. Working with Iovation and Honesty Online should mitigate this problem and help YOUAND.ME to [...]
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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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