Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Free dating site Youandme has integrated Honesty Online and iovation as part of their safety and security measures.
Steven Sikes, one of youandme’s founders says:
“We easily could have over 50,000 online dating members, but we’ve banned thousands of spammers and scammers. Working with Iovation and Honesty Online should mitigate this problem and help YOUAND.ME to [...]
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Today’s guest post is by Sandy Glover, President Gold Shield Legal Investigations, Inc. Sandy is a retired police detective from the Metro-Atlanta area, a licensed private investigator and owns her own agency and Confadate, which specializes in background checks for business and personal safety.
Thousands of men and women enjoy the services of an on line [...]
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The first Senior Engineer at Facebook has launched a background check service on, you guessed it, Facebook.
TrueScoop, an Arbor Venture’s product, today announced the release of a new Facebook application which searches through over 20 million records and a million photos for personal and criminal history of anyone, completely free of charge…. This service, which [...]
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Jeremy Wagstaff found another hole in how Facebook deals with friend requests, specifically when you are contacted by someone who is not a friend.
…if you click on the profile of someone who is not a friend but has sent you a message, or asked you to be a friend. In either case, I believe, that [...]
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A sucker is born every minute.
Have an extra $389 sitting around? Protect yourself with True Tracker Pro’s GPS personal security device. Carrying this small, lightweight unit (weighs 3 ounces) will give you the peace of mind you need in today’s dating world. Equipped with an SOS/Panic Button, when activated, immediately sends an alert to 3 [...]
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Recently I spoke with Larry Cynkin, CTO of Honesty Online, as part of the Online Dating Insider sponsor series. Honesty Online provides a verified identity credential that you can use and re-use wherever you interact or transact online. Your credential is your virtual calling card, letting others know who you are and letting them know [...]
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I had a great lunch with TrustPlus founder Shawn Broderick. TrustPlus helps people trust by letting them view the reputations of others and by building their own reputations – anywhere on the Web. TrustPlus is building a community of trust, giving people the tools to weed out fraudulent buyers and sellers, assess a potential friend, [...]
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Online Personals Watch has an interview with iovation CEO Greg Peirson. Good overview of iovation anti-fraud services. There are also some videos at iovation.com. I have been introducing iovation to dating sites and am pleased with the response so far. Contact me if you would like to set up a brief call to learn more [...]
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I had lunch with Ed from MaxMind today. The weather is still warm enough to eat outside which is great, as we Bostonians are counting down the days until the first frost. IT execs at dating sites know what MaxMind is, due to the popularity of their GeoIP and Minfraud technology in the dating space. [...]
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Chris Nguyen at Cupid.com wrote in to announce the launch of a safety feature called FollowMeCupid.com. FollowMeCupid is one of those services where you enter your date details and a contact into the website. If you don’t check in on time your contact is, well, contacted.
FollowMeCupid is useful because you don’t have to explicitly tell [...]
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