Online Dating Insider

Welcome!
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 safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Tools & Services directory, useful to anyone running dating [...]

[Read more →]

Over the past several years online dating has moved from static profiles in your web browser to mobile phones, cable television channels, YouTube and the nascent SecondLife virtual environment. Today I saw something similar to SecondLife that specifically mentioned matchmaking, and totally blew me away. Watch this video for the new Sony Playstation “Home” [...]

[Read more →]

Dating simulators seem to becoming more popular these days. OmniDate helps people find life partners through online dating adventures by building highly interactive dating adventures. OnmiDate recreates real-life dating situations by using video and 3D animation.
It’s unclear how many people will decide to ask some out on a “dating adventureâ€? instead of simply emailing them [...]

[Read more →]

Userplane has announced the availability of online two-player games within the Userplane Webmessenger instant messaging platform. Users can now play games right from the IM window.
Userplane Webmessenger users have their choice of four two-player games: Fruit Mixup, a popular “match three� puzzle game; Seabattle, a game in which users try to locate the position of [...]

[Read more →]

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; [...]

[Read more →]

Matchdigits is the latest anonymous calling company to enter the dating space. Typical of the telcom market, WebPoint Communications are hedging their bets with several other *Digits products, including HopeDigits for battered women, OfficeDigits for SOHO users and FreeDigits, for the rest of us.
From the Press release:
MatchDigits is the first service to offer free phone [...]

[Read more →]

I just got a call from a Match Platinum matchmaker. I signed up late last week to see how long it would take them to call back and find out more about the service.
Match is promoting the Platinum service to Match and non-Match customers. The idea being you get matched with Match members first, then [...]

[Read more →]

Virtual world Second Life has released the source code that powers the client side of the popular 3D environment. While there are lots of issues with security and the service tends to go down fairly often, providing the “schematics� of how SL works to developers is surely going to create an enormous opportunity for improvement. [...]

[Read more →]

A new Online Dating Toolbar has been released which online dating news via RSS feeds, pulls in some coupons and provides links to dating sites. There are a lot of features not related to dating, but thats what you get when you build on top of Conduit, a free community toolbar builder. Supposedly works [...]

[Read more →]

Not sure what’s going on in the mind of your date or spouse? All you have to do is install Skype, purchase Love Detector, have them download and install Skype, call them, and LoveDetector will tell you if they want to boil bunnies, break up or get married.
Love Detector for Skype is a new software [...]

[Read more →]