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Facebook chat is rolled out to just about everyone today. When chat is tied into Facebook dating applications things are going to get interesting. Reminds me of Userplane’s desktop presence if you have Facebook notifications turned on.
Conversation is getting broken down into increasingly smaller chunks. What is our attention threshold for paying attention to [...]

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Slashdot has a great article, Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You!, written by frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton wants to make online dating better.
His ideas, at least those which I was able to stay awake through, were interesting.
As with Slashdot, the good stuff is in the comments.

We don’t need YAUDSBSWWTMAMBOOOPM (Yet Another Useless [...]

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I’m currently working with Matchmine, a startup focused on personal recommendations. Matchmine can also match you to other people, by computing the similarity of your respective MatchKeys. This is very interesting stuff, especially in regards to personality testing. Why take a long test when you can compare your tastes and preferences directly? That’s all I [...]

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Upgraded the blog last night, new templates and some functionality added. Now you can see my bookmarks for dating-related stuff I come across during the day.
To date, no dating site has gotten close to offering a comprehensive suite of functionality that pushes dating to the next level.

Reputation management
Image search
General search
Profile help/coaching
Introduction facilitation
On-site activities like games [...]

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I’m near the Jersey Shore meeting with TelTech. They are demoing their LoveDetect, Liar and Spoof phone services. Fascinating technology and applications and the discussion about how dating and social sites could use the services has been interesting.
I have meetings all day Friday  in Manhattan. Nice to be back, it’s been a while. A few [...]

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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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Tonight was a beautiful night in Boston so I went to a restaurant overlooking the city on the waterfront here in Charlestown and hung out with new neighborhood friends. I came home and didn’t remember that Speeddate.com was having it’s inaugural event until 45 minutes into it.
Speeddate.com launched at Techcrunch40 a few weeks ago. Lot’s [...]

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I meditated this morning and them promptly smashed my head into a doorframe, which dislodged some thoughts about the future of online dating and discovery services I’ve had filed away somewhere behind the reptilian part of my brain that focuses on breathing, the Red Sox and not getting run over on my bike.
In the future, [...]

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 Eric Klaassen is an expert on online dating from The Netherlands. Eric  translated a thought-provoking article he wrote about dating site strategy, which I have reposted with his permission.
The market for online dating sites can be compared to a red ocean. The “ocean” refers to the complete dating industry. “Blue oceans” are untapped and uncontested [...]

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