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Jangl, which powers the anonymous calling feature on Match.com and several social networks, has expired. The founders are going to work for Jajah, which powers eHarmony’s anonymous calling service.
Sorry to hear the news, I like the Jangl team and their PR team was top notch. Hopefully Jajah will find a place for them where they [...]

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Jangl and all the other anonymous calling services are preparing to insert advertising in the beginning, middle and end of calls routed through their system via partners like Bebo. I wonder how these plans may change now that Bebo is an AOL property.
I assume that Match members (Jangl powers Match anonymous calling) will not have [...]

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There are scores of companies focused on connecting people on the Internet. But what about people without computers, or prefer to communicate by phone?
Ccube, in Cupertino, CA, is making it easier for billions of people without computers to communicate. To use the CCube Service, one only needs a phone. after a brief web-based signup [...]

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Over the years, dating sites like Match.com have toyed with audio and video on profiles. Impediments included the need for special infrastructure, i.e special phone numbers to call into, or developing applications to record low quality video from sub megapixel webcams. And who do you know that had a webcam in 2003?
With ever-falling bandwidth prices, [...]

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Collaboradate has a new blog.
Spark Networks 10-k, lots of financial info, including picking up Schmooze-a-Palooza for $50k. This document should be required reading for anyone in the dating business. If you are about to launch a new dating site, make sure to read “Risk Factors, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of [...]

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Enjoying the nice traffic spike from the link from the New York Times True.com article.
Lots of IT-related posts about dating sites recently. Today, Level 3 announces it has launched an Internet-based phone service for online dating service Lavalife. Lavalife, which has more than 600,000 active members, assigns dedicated phone numbers to customers so they don’t [...]

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