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

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A warm welcome to our new sponsor, Dating Ad Network.
Match closed down their “match studios” service and re-opened it under the name of Match Profile Pro. You can see the ad unit if you go to “edit profile” it’s on the far left hand side of the page. It offers the same things as match [...]

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Let’s face it, most personal ad photos are a faint glimmer of reality. Men and women are equally guilty for posting photos that don’t reflect their true self. Photo variations include the “10 years ago” photo, the “hide the body” or most often, the “that dot way in the back is me”, in which case [...]

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You Suck at Photoshop episode #7 is hilarious. Subtitle should be “How to hot up your Facebook photo.”
Each week a guy named Donnie takes on a viewer-submitted photo and applies some serious Photoshop trickery, often with coffee-spitting results.
Episode #7 features the photo of a viewer who writes, “My marriage broke up and I need to [...]

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Collaborative editing is making it’s way into online dating profiles. Recently Match launched a Testimonial feature and this morning I discovered OKCupid enables friends to edit your profile.

Another weirdo toy by us. With the new WikiProfile feature, you can let anyone you trust propose edits to your profile. Is that a twisted thing for a [...]

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I came across Mypictr while I was updating my Last.fm profile. Upload a pic, crop and resize specifically for any number of dating sites, pictured below. Updating profiles one at a time is going to be a thing of the past very soon, I’m excited to see how dating and social networks are taking advantage [...]

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All-Star Dating Tips is a recently-launched website that is “The most comprehensive dating and attraction advice website the internet has ever seen.”
Press Release.
dating tips

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From reader Jaime:

I’m not sure if this is new or not but Match has something called Match Studios
where you put in your contact information, match calls you back, reviews your
profile and picture and makes recommendations. It costs $40

Reading the Terms of Service, it’s clear that LookBetterOnline is providing photography [...]

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Viibee.com

Viibee’s main idea is that above all online dating should be fun. We try to keep away from happy couple pictures and success stories because we believe that this only exercises pressure upon the members. Moreover, we took some care to give the site a visually appealing look, because we believe this adds to the [...]

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How many personalities do you have when you’re online? Are you a father, a husband, a beer-drinking buddy, a co-worker? A devout Christian or into BSDM? Often times, this could describe a single person. To be sure, the Internet does not make it easy to keep these different facets of your personality separate. The best [...]

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