Welcome!
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 [...]
Rant: Updating Profiles, Mobile Dating
August 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Mobestar Gets Together with World Dating Partners
August 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Mobile community applications developers Mobestar has announced a partnership with Datech Limited. Datech provides dating services to 7,000 web sites around the world via its World Dating Partners brand. The partnership enables Datech to offer fully integrated web and mobile dating solutions to its clients.
World Dating Partners’ clients will now be offered the opportunity to [...]
Jangl makes Anonymous Heavy Breathing Easier
July 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Jangl is on a real tear. Now that Match.com took the bait, every large dating and social network is inviting anonymous calling companies to pitch their services. Baaaa! (that’s my sheep sound.)
The latest to enter the game is Various Inc, which owns the FriendFinder network. Adult FriendFinder is the only property that anyone I’ve ever [...]
Tuesday 7/24 Links
July 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Diesel Dating: Love the interface.
ForeSee Pairs Up with eHarmony to Measure Customer Satisfaction.
iRovr Launches Mini Social Network for the iPhone.
Peepsnation is a Mobile Hot or Not.
Sparkleroad.com is for sale. Sitepoint has the Sparkleroad listing. Owner says it has over 100k members with 6 localized domains and over 15,000 photos uploaded by the members.
Back in the Saddle
July 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Vacation was fantastic. 18 relatives in a rustic camp on a beautiful lake in the mountains. Re-entry is proving difficult (or I’m just feeling lazy), we’ll stick with links for this week while I get back into the swing of things.
Meetic vs. Match. France versus Texas. Top two UK sites are free, fighting for leftovers. [...]
Mobile Dating: IceBreaker Raises $7.2 Million
June 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
IceBreaker which I wrote about back in November, has landed $7.2 million in new financing, money that the Bellevue startup will use to continue marketing its mobile dating service Crush or Flush. Crush or Flush is similar to a mobile version of HotorNot.
IceBreaker plans to use funds to bolster a research and development center in [...]