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Last week I flew to LA for the iDate LA 2009 conference. This was my first flight on Virgin America and I definitely picked the right day to fly. Virgin offered free wifi and hosting Day In The Cloud with Google. Google Ambassador Paul was a few seats up and the LAX to SFO [...]
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There is some buzz this week about Userplane shutting down, although until I hear from Janet or someone else on the team I’m going to hold off on linkbait blog titles like at OPW. If in fact Userplane is shutting down, dating sites are going to have to find an alternative chat client, or simply [...]
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Looks like Userplane has some competition in Toksta, which I learned about at iDate last month. Supposedly Toksta beats userplane on price and depth of integration, with toksta all of your friends/favorites, ignores, profile pictures etc. from the community/dating site are automatically synchronized with the IM. Publishers may sell their own ads as well. They [...]
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Question: When did anonymous text chat jump the shark?
Answer: Today.
A Russian website called CyberLover.ru is advertising a software tool that, it says, can simulate flirtatious chatroom exchanges. It boasts that it can chat up as many as 10 women at the same time and persuade them to hand over phone numbers.
The program, so far available [...]
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