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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From Online Personals Watch: Omnidate is conducting a study with Professor Dan Ariely into the effectiveness of virtual dating and is looking for dating sites to participate in this research. That’s a smart move to align with Professor Ariely. I’ve read his research and seen some of the demos of their virtual dating application, fascinating [...]
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Marc Andreessen, the inventor of the web browser and founder of Netscape, was on Charlie Rose talking about the past, present and future of the internet. The pair discuss the people and the companies that are driving innovation as well as the fact that innovation is not dead, as some silicon valley pundits are predicting. [...]
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Match.com, the world’s largest online dating company, today announced the launch of DownToEarth, an innovative free online dating site. Last week I spoke with Jacob Solotaroff, the former Director of Product Management and Member Integrity at Match.com, who is tasked with running Down To Earth. Steve Hammer, who heads up marketing for Down To Earth, [...]
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Over the past month or two Match has been rolling out a number of design and functionality updates. To begin with, the familiar black header has been replaced with a blue one. Match has thrown out any sort of cohesive design pattern, everything looks like it’s being modularized, perhaps to make it easier to work [...]
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Cambridge, MA based Viximo has launched TrueFlirt, an application that enables users to send and receive virtual flirts via mobile phone. Viximo is first and foremost a virtual goods company: think roses on HotOrNot or Facebook gifts. They have produced a video describing their virtual goods marketplace, a complete end-to-end virtual goods marketplace which brings [...]
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The editors of TechCrunch: had a slow news day and hyped a Japanese virtual boyfriend simulator:
In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nippon’s newest web sensation. Geared exclusively towards girls, the site attracted over 10,000 members just 5 [...]
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Tech Crunch 50 is today. Practically everyone who matters in the Internet space is there. Why should you care? If you’re a dating site executive, you are are probably focused on driving traffic and conversion rates. But do you ever actually stop and think about how your service functions or how it could be improved? [...]
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I am having a blast checking out all the new iPhone applications. SuperMonkeyBall is great, but Brightkite, Jott and Things are incredibly useful apps for me throughout the day.
I don’t spend time on phone-based dating because the applications aren’t very good and I am sure as hell not going to pay extra for mobile dating [...]
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