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Several years ago I worked on a business plan for a speed dating application built on top of Skype. After my conversation with Stephen at WooMe I dug up the feature list and thought it would be interesting to compare what we were thinking about back then with what WooMe and SpeedDate are doing.

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There’s a new speeddating site currently in beta. Camlink launched a private beta Feb 5th, and is live today.
Ilya Zatulovskiy co-founder and CEO of Camlink, had this to say about the speed dating patent (U.S. Patent Number 7,203,674) that SpeedDate licensed:
They licensed the patent back in August 2007 - (maybe this was a letter of [...]

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The latest Cupidcast show is up on iTunes. Last night we talked with Suneet Wadhwa and Trish McDermot of Engage.com. Much of the conversation focused on the hot new “social dating” trend, a great topic for singles as well as dating industry executives. Please show us some love and subscribe to CupidCast in iTunes.
Next week [...]

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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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Check out the WooMe traffic trajectory (monthly visitors). Here are a bunch of YouTube videos made by the founder, Stephen Stokols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7qBtcrWvzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZEZHbpKds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCecpStCNc
There are several more related videos at youTube. Steven is pretty smooth, knowledgeable about the space, knows how to sell the value proposition to the money guys, press and consumers. He knows how to pump [...]

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Infrequent posting lately. Was in New York City for a lost weekend, finishing up projects, spending some mental health time out of the office and checking out traffic stats as part of a preemptive move to posting twice a week.
Looks like I’m going to be part of a dating-related radio show, which is doing a [...]

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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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SpeedDate.com has announced it has hosted over one million 3-minute online speed dates.
One woman in California, has gone on 40 dates in an evening. How can you keep track of 40 people?
While SpeedDate is one of the most visible players in the current crop of video-based introduction services, I refuse to call it the first [...]

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I read about Randommate over at OPW. Randommate easily boasts the most features of any speed dating site I’ve seen. Unfortunately, it’s feature-itis is also what makes me want to run to the simplicity of other speed dating sites. Speed dating is about popping in, meeting a few people and leaving. Here’s the Randommate launch [...]

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