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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 developer at SEOmoz built a dating site from concept to launch in 66.5 hours.
The first month of being online Mingle2 had around 90,000 unique visitors. By July the site’s popularity exploded, seeing nearly 700,000 uniques and 1.9 million page views for that month alone. Being the founder (and a user) of the website, [...]

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EHarmony is using Tealeaf to “identify actionable Ebusiness insights by walking through exactly what customers experience, reproducing any obstacles and enabling us to quantify them and resolve them immediately.”
EHarmony is using Tealeaf CX to gather website usage insights that are ultimately leveraged across the organization. Engineering is able to immediately detect and resolve any issues [...]

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For those of you without millions of dollars and a stellar development team to build your FaceBook application, may I suggest Dolphin as a viable dating site platform option. Version 6 Beta is out now.
I’ve always said I would never run a dating site, but I never said I wouldn’t build one. So here I [...]

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I can’t believe that the Facebook Platform is three weeks old and I’m just getting to it. Busy with clients, moving and life in general, plus the usual summertime blogging malaise has set in. I really need to get a Treo so I can blog on the run, as I can’t seem to make the [...]

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If  networked storage, NAS and server clusters don’t do it for you, you might want to go read about Paris.
Over at ARNet, Mark Douglas, vice-president of technology at eHarmony, talked about the company’s use of storage clusters, how he chooses storage vendors, why the company is phasing out tape backup, and about new projects planned [...]

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If that headline didn’t do it for you, it probably didn’t work for the intended audience either. Touting a user interface technology and a development platform in the title of press release is not the smartest way to go about promoting a new dating site. After all, who besides net.heads has any idea what Ajax [...]

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Eharmony’s data storage needs have grown from 1 terabyte to 100 TB in just two years.
To master its storage needs, eHarmony went with iSCSI wherever it could, fibre-channel where it needed it, using a utility storage approach with NAS gateways and high-end network switches that allow plug-in expansion. The solution is delivering throughput at around [...]

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The Firefox browser is going social. The Mozilla foundation, parent of Firefox, has announced Coop, a browser extension that incorporates social networking right in the Firefox browser. Bringing social networking right into the browser is something I have wished for for a long time. Why put up with Myspace and all the other badly designed [...]

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Facebook is giving away, Thrift, a serious stable of the Facebook platform, gratis, as in free beer.
Thrift is a software framework that takes one simple programming language and performs not-so-simple code generation to create programs that communicate easily and efficiently across many programming languages.
Personally I prefer to roll my in-memory search index in PHP, but [...]

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