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INBED Virtual Girlfriend

by David Evans on May 18, 2008   in Technology

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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Speeding Up Dating Site Performance

by David Evans on May 12, 2008   in Technology

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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PlentyOfFish Image Serving

by David Evans on April 2, 2008   in Technology

PlentyOfFish is now serving images off solid state drives, which employs a technology similar to what is found in the new MacBook Air- no moving parts. Markus has been having trouble with content delivery systems and I guess he thought that faster hard drives were the answer. I’ve always thought pushing content closer to the [...]

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OpenSocial Goes Live on Myspace

by David Evans on March 13, 2008   in Social Networking, Technology

I rejoined the Twitter crowd today after taking some time off from gorging on people’s lifestreams. One of the first tweets I received was from from marshalk at Read Write Web, who just posted OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on Myspace.
Marshall’s list of key differences between MySpace and other OpenSocial “containers” is worth noting if [...]

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Iovation Prevents Online Fraud And Abuse

by David Evans on February 13, 2008   in Safety, Technology

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Jay Johns from Iovation. Simply put, Iovation brings a level of security to online transactions unlike anything else I’ve ever seen.
Iovation’s patented technology builds historical information about every computer used to connect to an online service, including device to account relationships and types of problems associated with [...]

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A Look Into Two Top White Label Dating Services

by David Evans on January 29, 2008   in Technology

This World Dating Partners presentation is a good overview of what to expect from a major white label dating service provider. For comparison, the White Label Dating Tour.

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Building a Dating Site with Amazon Web Services

by David Evans on January 28, 2008   in Technology

Dating site startups should read the WSJ article Small Firms Tap Amazon’s Juice, which chronicles how companies are leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS page at Amazon contains information about building Facebook applications on AWS, the DevPay billing system and SimpleDB, which I’ve mentioned in the past.
The beginning of an options matrix starts to [...]

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Understanding Open Social

by David Evans on January 28, 2008   in Dating Software, Social Networking, Technology

Many people have written to ask about Google’s OpenSocial initiative, so I thought I would put a few resources together to get people started thinking about how dating and OpenSocial can work together to improve the online dating experience.
OpenSocial defined:

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript [...]

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The Status of Online Dating Software

by David Evans on January 16, 2008   in Dating Software, Technology

I had a good conversation yesterday with a developer who works with various dating and social networking scripts. I ended up venting for a good part of the call which led me to do some thinking about the status of online dating scripts.
I get many calls an emails from startups looking for the best dating [...]

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Facebook to License its Social Networking Platform

by David Evans on January 11, 2008   in Technology

News from last month.

Facebook will help other social networking sites to run applications developed for its own software platform, it said Thursday. The company already encourages developers to build applications that work with its site, publishing details of the tags and APIs (application programming interfaces) needed to exchange data. Now it plans to license those [...]

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