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I signed up for several Facebook dating applications almost two months ago. Let me start by saying that the status of Facebook dating applications is in general, a mess. 150 applications in the category, with the most popular being crush, hotornot, astrology, purity or other types of tests. Why are astrology and personality apps in [...]

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IamFreeTonight has launched on Facebook, although I can’t find the service in the applications listing.
Talking about launching HotOrNot on Facebook (which isn’t a dating site IMHO), Markus at Plentyoffish says:
As for growing pageviews via facebook I think that is a mistake for a dating site,  even when they allow advertising you’d make cents on the [...]

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It’s been fun watching everyone I know starting to move over to Facebook ever since the new Facebook Platform launched several weeks ago. The great rush to Myspace is over and I’m never going back.
I’ve installed the Firefox Facebook Toolbar, which keeps be going back to Facebook far more often than if I only had [...]

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I am going ga-ga over the new Facebook platform. Compared to what Facebook is doing to change the face of social computing (there’s your real Paradigm Shift, Markus), the recent space of failed dating site acquisitions and summer doldrums leaves me hungry for a new project.
So far the summer has brought us eHarmony and Chemistry [...]

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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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After  week of political posturing, the New York Times says that Myspace will hand over to state attorneys general the names, addresses and online profiles of thousands of known convicted sex offenders who have opened up accounts on the service. More than 7,000 profiles of convicted sexual predators have been removed as well. States must [...]

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Law enforcement officials are charging that the online social network MySpace has discovered thousands of known sex offenders using its service, but has failed to act on the information. So much for the Sentinel Sentry sex offender database.
Hemanshu Nigam, the chief security officer of MySpace, supports legislation requiring convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail [...]

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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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