Online Dating Summit Recap

It was great to see everyone at Online Dating Summit in Miami! Met a lot of readers from EU and AU as well as key players at top US dating sites. Many people were fried after Affiliate Summit in Vegas. My keynote presentation is at http://slidesha.re/WUcGU5 Sign up for the weekly digest of Online Dating Insider [...]

Singles Gift Ideas, Social Cologne, More Social Dating Startups

Hinge is  Pandora for Dating. Friends of Friends only. Using the Facebook social graph, Hinge completely rethinks online dating. Instead of the “lean-forward” experience of filling out a profile and searching through listings, Hinge provides a “lean-back” experience where users simply rate and answer questions about their friends. Hinge learns their tastes and recommends friends [...]

New Mobile Dating Apps, EU Dating Market Studies, Cuddling For Cash

Startup of the week: Banjo brings friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram together, by location (and it’s awesome). Via VentureBeat. This is a must-read article for anyone doing a mobile dating app. Banjo is going on my home screen right now. The folks at Rasmussen Reports found that 16% View Online Dating Sites Favorably. Thanks @jamesagardner. Cuddling [...]

Teaching Kids How To Have Dysfunctional Relationships

Its difficult enough to teach kids how to just be kids these days, and now they are seeing directives like this in games for 11-year-olds. Via Reddit. This is so wrong.

Lots of Changes to The Blog

Over the weekend I made a number of changes to the blog. New ad units More teaser posts at bottom of home page Recommend/Related posts are back New font Cleaner sidebar New footer with tweets and recent comment New archive page Had some fun with the header banner Lots of other behind the scenes tweaks [...]

Dating Domains For Sale

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Dating Insider Office Hours in London Monday 10-22

I will be in London speaking at a conference over the weekend and have decided to extend my stay for a few days. Sunday is my birthday and on Monday I am going to have “office hours” at a pub or coffee shop in London near Soho. If you would like to meet up and [...]

Do Location-Based Dating Apps Really Matter?

In the name of research, I have tried just about every location-based dating app out there. Its exciting to fire up a new app and that a cute single person two blocks away might want to eat squid pancakes with me while watching a Felini movie in a public park nearby. In reality location/suggestion-based dating [...]

Ashley Madison Mitt Romney Billboard Removed in Boston

A billboard depicting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in an advertisement for a marital affairs website has been pulled down from its perch in South Boston. “Apparently I put up an ad not in America, but in some country where freedom of expression isn’t tolerated very well; especially when it comes to the political scene,” said [...]

Dating Industry News 9-20-12

Goodbye Jazzed, hello eHarmony. I hope everyone is having a lovely National Singles Week. HuffPo has all the relevant Someecards for you. Iovation launched the Virtual Crime-Fighting Network, where customers and fraud professionals can connect in private. Scamalytics should do this if they want to get the dating industry on board. Business development pitches are much [...]

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