Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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One more mention of VisualDNA. Can you tell I’m excited about the company?
Today marks the introduction of ProfileWiz (www.profilewiz.com), a new service that produces a 500-word personalized dating profile in less than five minutes. The site poses 22 questions and presents possible answers in the forms of photos. Simply select the photo that answers such [...]
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I’ve been helping out VisualDNA and wanted to give them a chance to explain a bit more about what they will be presenting at iDate.
I (Ben Fletcher), will be showing off some genuinely new and innovative products for the dating industry. Our VisualDNA quizzes are a natural fit with dating: engaging and compelling use of [...]
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DatingHeadshots and Cupid’s Coach have teamed up to provide online daters with a combined offering featuring quality online dating photos along with profile writing and coaching. The Executive Dating Profile Service includes: a full portfolio of dating photos and 50 minutes of one-on-one phone and email coaching. Online daters now have a one-stop-shop option to [...]
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Once again, OKCupid crushes it with this OKTrends article, The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures. I talked to them about this a while back, glad to see them executing some seriously fascinating, entertaining and thorough research.
Client plug: Read the OKCupid blog post about profile photos and then visit DatingHeadshots.com to get your VIP profile [...]
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TechCrunch says:
Twitter is preparing to launch a new set of tools that will let third party websites easily integrate Twitter features directly into their web sites and services, multiple sources have confirmed. In a nutshell, this is their response to the massively popular Facebook Connect.
I would like to see more dating sites integrating Twitter feeds, [...]
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Had a great conversation with CrowdFlower. CrowdFlower is all about making casual or crowd labor reliable. There is a whole new economy being built around the crowdsourcing of labor. This new marketplace is initiating an entire economy of spending around work that could not previously be done online – changing the workforce of tomorrow.
Jobs ranging [...]
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After the Deadline is a software service that adds grammar, style, and spell checking to web applications. You can embed it or download a plugin for common applications. I wish this was around when I was running ProfileDoctor, this is basically what I wanted to build. Let eCyrano and the others charge $100 for [...]
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iPhone developers like TAT are coming up with a number of remarkable augmented reality applications. The TAT Augmented ID app enables people to point their smartphone at a person and identity them immediately through a link to a special profile. The profile is contextual, you can set it to “after hours” or “work mode”, displaying [...]
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DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online have announced a strategic partnership to provide daters with the tools they want to make online dating more fun and successful. Disclaimer, I work with both companies. Through this new partnership, DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online address two areas that have disappointed users — unreliable photos and inaccurate personal information.
DatingHeadshots, an industry [...]
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My friend sent me this eHarmony email. Click the thumbnail to read the profile text. She is savvy to the whole online dating thing and this is what she said: “I think this is a composite guy that’s just so appealing to someone like me that I couldn’t resist shelling out to meet him….shady!” [...]
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