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Question for matchmakers — what kind of insurance do you carry to protect your business? Is there a specific insurer that is matchmaker and/or dating site friendly, who understands the specific risks you face? Also, what type of corporate structure have you implemented? LLC, S or C corp? This could be a great example of [...]

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Love this quote from WooMe founder George Berkowski:

It’s just a great way to waste time.

I agree. Note that WooMe is introducing a Youtube-style option to record sessions and make them public. Now we can watch videos of horny guys trying to get a co-ed to take her top off. I’m sure there will be other [...]

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Florida has approved the safer dating bill. Opponents of the measure say True.com is just trying to get a marketing advantage over other companies who - if they don’t do background screenings - would have to say so prominently on their site under the bill (SB 1536). It was approved in the Senate Commerce Committee [...]

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Lobbying firm KSE is reaching on behalf of Internet Alliance, which is heading to Illinois on April 3 to fight the ”Internet predator awareness and online safety act”.

I work w/ Emily Hackett of the Internet Alliance. We represent Yahoo!, Match.com and eHarmony (among others) and are trying to get online dating companies to testify against [...]

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Finnish MP Tommy Tabermann has proposed a law granting all couples a seven-day “love vacation” to keep their relationships together.
During the seven days, couples could devote themselves to each other “both at an erotic and emotional level€” and ”find their way back to the path of love in order to find the wellspring of love [...]

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Behold what happens when the issue of online security is taken seriously by the right mix of legal entities and online companies. People listen, get involved and forward progress is achieved. New York is now officially the epicenter for online safety legislation.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, and Assembly [...]

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I’m back from family wedding this weekend. My aunt got married at 65 after using several online dating services the past few years and it was the groom’s first marriage, at 65. See, this online dating stuff works if you work it.
A couple of stories to get the week started.
AmericanSingles®.com’s consolidates affiliate programs at Commission [...]

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Lawmakers in New Jersey have pushed the Internet Dating Safety Act through to the next step of the lawmaking process, even though most agreed the bill is based on allegedly incomplete and inconclusive background checks.
The difference between screening and background checks comes into play here, and most bills have failed to differentiate between the two.

Nine [...]

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In case you missed it, the battleground for online dating dominance shifted over the weekend.
First, we learned that True.com is most likely delinquent on its advertising payments. As a result True’s ads are increasingly harder to find in the usual places like Myspace and it’s rankings continue to sink. More in the New York Times [...]

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