Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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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, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]
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The Facebook Engineering blog outlines the custom-built infrastructure used to manage 60 billion images on the social network. Fascinating stuff, talk about fixing the airplane engine during flight.
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos
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Nial Kennedy outlines Haystack, the new Facebook photo storage system. Facebook has 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month, 500 GB per day. More details at Computerworld.
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I get a little excited when I think about all the technology required to run dating sites. Here are some new tools I learned about today.
Selenium is a web application testing system.
CRM114 is a system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the [...]
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This is for Skout: Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech. Please integrate into Skout mobile, thanks.
Yahoo has launched the Friends On Fire Facebook application. FOF is based on and built by the Fire Eagle team, Yahoo’s location-based service.
Foursquare Seeks to Turn Nightlife Into a Game: google acquired Dodgeball, [...]
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PCWorld, of all publications, does a great job Analyzing the Algorithms of Attraction, asking the question, Just how do eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, True.com and PerfectMatch.com work under the hood?
I wish reporters would talk to different dating sites. Getting tired of hearing from the same few companies. There are many other interesting stories out there [...]
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WhiteLabelDating.com is migrating their server from Rackspace to Peer1 in Atlanta this Thursday. As a result, customers should benefit from faster, brand new hardware all running the latest software, faster file storage, databases, web servers, firewalls and load balancers and a team of engineers providing monitoring and supporting 24/7.
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NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program student Drew Burrows, 28, engineered a “virtual girlfriend,” and showed her off at a recent Tisch School of the Arts show. She’s perfectly quiet, but once you sit or lie down, she responds to your every move. Lie on your back, she snuggles up right next to you in a log [...]
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As dating sites grow, they tend to slow down. Steve Souders, the author of the O’Reilly book High Performance Web Sites and creator of Firefox plugin YSlow has a great presentation about how to speed up your website. Dating site IT people need to read this.
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