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Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Tools & Services directory, useful to anyone running dating [...]

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I’m currently working with Matchmine, a startup focused on personal recommendations. Matchmine can also match you to other people, by computing the similarity of your respective MatchKeys. This is very interesting stuff, especially in regards to personality testing. Why take a long test when you can compare your tastes and preferences directly? That’s all I [...]

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I’m near the Jersey Shore meeting with TelTech. They are demoing their LoveDetect, Liar and Spoof phone services. Fascinating technology and applications and the discussion about how dating and social sites could use the services has been interesting.
I have meetings all day Friday  in Manhattan. Nice to be back, it’s been a while. A few [...]

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I just got off the phone with Sam Yagan at OKCupid. Sam walked me through a demo of a new site they are launching soon. Without giving away the store, I will say that the new service brings singles together like no other dating site I’ve ever seen before.
The service won’t be for everyone, but [...]

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Tonight was a beautiful night in Boston so I went to a restaurant overlooking the city on the waterfront here in Charlestown and hung out with new neighborhood friends. I came home and didn’t remember that Speeddate.com was having it’s inaugural event until 45 minutes into it.
Speeddate.com launched at Techcrunch40 a few weeks ago. Lot’s [...]

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I meditated this morning and them promptly smashed my head into a doorframe, which dislodged some thoughts about the future of online dating and discovery services I’ve had filed away somewhere behind the reptilian part of my brain that focuses on breathing, the Red Sox and not getting run over on my bike.
In the future, [...]

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 Eric Klaassen is an expert on online dating from The Netherlands. Eric  translated a thought-provoking article he wrote about dating site strategy, which I have reposted with his permission.
The market for online dating sites can be compared to a red ocean. The “ocean” refers to the complete dating industry. “Blue oceans” are untapped and uncontested [...]

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The Firefox browser is going social. The Mozilla foundation, parent of Firefox, has announced Coop, a browser extension that incorporates social networking right in the Firefox browser. Bringing social networking right into the browser is something I have wished for for a long time. Why put up with Myspace and all the other badly designed [...]

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Dating site and social networks dedicate considerable resources to making sure user-generated content adheres to their terms of service. Online dating sites in particular often have a large group of people reviewing profiles, or no review process in place whatsoever.
ProfileApproval provides outsourced profile and content review services. They knows that processing profiles is not sexy, [...]

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I just finished adding a new theme to my other blog, The Progress Bar, with a new template. TBP is where I write about Web 2.0, social media, identity, leading-edge internet marketing and other early-adopter topics that don’t quite fit into a blog about the online dating industry.
Online dating does have quite a number of [...]

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