Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the category archives:
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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Ellen Gamerman at the WSJ wrote an article about rating, reputation (reg req’d) and online dating.
More and more dating sites are integrating reputation and testimonial features, including Engage.com (one-time client), Consumating and JDate.
The result is an emerging caste system, where highly rated daters see a lot of action, and others are deemed undateable. The online [...]
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Pete over at Mashable notes that WeeWorld just launched WeeMee avatars, and announced a partnership with AOL. 10 million WeeMees have been created in more than 39 countries, allowing users to post a personalized avatar on blogs, social networks, e-mail signatures, instant messengers and cellphones.
Yahoo IM has been the reigning king of IM avatars [...]
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Identity services provider Opinity (a client), has announced that you can now use both OpenID and Microsoft’s CardSpace at Opinity.
This means that if you have established an OpenID–for instance, through Verisign PIP or LiveJournal–you can use that OpenID to log in to Opinity and to control your personal profile. Also, if you have created [...]
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Aldo Castañeda posted our podcast discussing the marketing implications and emerging surfaces of identity and attention systems. The talk primarily covers the layers of the identity stack, with particular focus on data providers and aggregators leading up to my thoughts on how our digital self will be represented in the future.
The podcast is located [...]
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Now this is more like it. A mere two days after I discovered Rapleaf, Opinity announces they will be partners.
Opinity and RapLeaf have entered into an agreement to integrate their services so that they can:
• Pursue and delop ways to create and exchange value related to e-commerce ranking and reputation/reputability for the [...]
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I found this photo of Mike Jones on Esther Dyson’s Flickr account via Marc Canter. (How come Flickr doesn’t accept trackbacks and this triple-threat deep linking stuff is exhausting, where is the plug-in to track the links back themselves so I can cut-n-paste and move on?)
Here’s the text below the photo:
…While other vendors talk about [...]
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Badges, shields, icons and chicklets are becoming more pervasive on blogs and discussion forums as companies offer tracking, verification and identity management services. I recently came across some new entrants, ClaimID and MicroID.
ClaimID will allow users to track, classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about them online.That information is then associated [...]
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Jeremy Wright says Myspace scares the hell out of him. He lays down a few choice comparisons and points I want to riff on.
According to Wright, by the end of the year, MySpace will account for roughly 10% of all web traffic and, by the end of 2006 (if growth and acceleration curves maintain), it [...]
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MySpace employs a staff of about 12 who do nothing but look at all 1.5 million images uploaded each day for inappropriate photos, including pornography. Despite their efforts, some illicit images still get through.’
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