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15minuteDate.com is a new free dating and social networking service provided for busy singles that just don’t have time to date and for those who are just too shy to make the first move. By using our service, users will be matched up with a potential blind date based on their profile information in a [...]
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Matchdigits is the latest anonymous calling company to enter the dating space. Typical of the telcom market, WebPoint Communications are hedging their bets with several other *Digits products, including HopeDigits for battered women, OfficeDigits for SOHO users and FreeDigits, for the rest of us.
From the Press release:
MatchDigits is the first service to offer free phone [...]
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Hot on the heels of the USA Today article about anonymous calling, the NY Times has a piece about, you guessed it, “the last phone number you’ll ever need.â€?
If a service is going to take off in the social and dating space, it’s got to be easy to use, keep the user on the same [...]
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Match.com reports the initial response to the new anonymous calling feature has been “extraordinary�?.
Jane Thompson, a Match.com vice president (of what?):
275,000 people already have used the feature, which is being offered as a freebie to Match.com’s 15 million user base through the end of the year.
One surprise: Match.com had expected the service to [...]
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Anonymous calling companies continue to court dating sites. It’s deja vu all over again. The Jangl deal with Match is the first big play in the space, but it remains to be seen what the adoption rates are for the service.
Mark Brooks recently interviewed Vumber, an anonymous call company set to launch soon. Basic anonymous [...]
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When it comes to innovation, the dating industry is usually one of the last places early adopters will look for examples of cutting edge features. Until now. Match is slated to begin offering free anonymous phone calling between members. But this isn’t your garden variety, run of the mill $3.95 per minute anonymous calling.
Free for [...]
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Cisco, maker of fine routing and networking appliances, has unveiled a $300,000, six screen high definition videoconferencing system. Except they call it telepresence because everyone’s heads are life-size. I spend at least an hour a day videoconferencing in Skype and have grown the love the added expression video brings a conversation.
This is overkill, but in [...]
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Earlier I mentioned Dating videos on Youtube. Then I realized once again that not many people have a webcam, or knows how to do a decent videoblog, so I’m taking it upon myself to provide best practices for your video profile.
Wait, I’m busy today, so today I hand you over to Ze Frank, my go-to [...]
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DigitalBulletin, part of Brand Republic, has a strategy analysis for the Match.com UK reality show.
My ears perked up until I read this:
The idea was to take Match.com to people by allowing them to interact with the brand, not just each other.
Ugh, who let the markers in the room? Don’t I always say that people don’t [...]
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My Dating Place, a local half-hour strip, will be tested on Fox-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate KUTP Phoenix starting late this year or early 2007. Would-be daters can apply on the station’s Website.
…Fox Television Stations Chairman Roger Ailes and CEO Jack Abernethy are looking to capitalize locally on the popularity of online dating sites like Match.com. Terenzio [...]
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