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TechCrunch has a review of ProfileLinker, a Boston-based (for now) company working on aggregating your social networking experience.
You tell ProfileLinker your site credentials and it pulls your bio, friends and other information from those sites and centralizes it. You then use ProfileLinker to manage your activity on those networks: aggregate and manage multiple social profiles; [...]

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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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I just got a call from a Match Platinum matchmaker. I signed up late last week to see how long it would take them to call back and find out more about the service.
Match is promoting the Platinum service to Match and non-Match customers. The idea being you get matched with Match members first, then [...]

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Virtual world Second Life has released the source code that powers the client side of the popular 3D environment. While there are lots of issues with security and the service tends to go down fairly often, providing the “schematics� of how SL works to developers is surely going to create an enormous opportunity for improvement. [...]

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A new Online Dating Toolbar has been released which online dating news via RSS feeds, pulls in some coupons and provides links to dating sites. There are a lot of features not related to dating, but thats what you get when you build on top of Conduit, a free community toolbar builder. Supposedly works [...]

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As I previously mentioned, Yahoo Personals has rolled out a few enhancements to the service. Have you seen the overview of the new customizable profile? Very nice. I like the idea of being able to customize the quick view, displaying the traits you feel most important right at the top of the page. Some of [...]

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Not sure what’s going on in the mind of your date or spouse? All you have to do is install Skype, purchase Love Detector, have them download and install Skype, call them, and LoveDetector will tell you if they want to boil bunnies, break up or get married.
Love Detector for Skype is a new software [...]

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I’m working on some feature comparison’s for clients and this morning I slurped down a few dozen personal ads from the top ten dating sites.

Initially I was looking for ways to increase the value of ads by giving members the ability to add metatdata to each other’s profiles but the exercise reaffirmed my general impression [...]

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Look out, recommendation engines are hot again. In 1996 it was all about Firefly, then Amazon, followed by Netflix and now a whole new crop of players are emerging, from Attention Trust to Pandora, who’s leader I saw speak at MIT a few weeks ago. Great story how they got from the Music Genome Project [...]

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