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I received lots of email from people this morning pointing out the New York Times story about Operation Match. Nice feel-good story. PerfectMatch certainly is getting a lot of mileage from Must Love Dogs. What interested me most was that Atlantic Monthly compared Chemistry, PerfectMatch and eHarmony for their March cover story. Off to the [...]

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Slow newsday, Defamer sez that Joan Rivers has a profile on Match.com. Supposedly she mentioned it on Howard Stern. MySpace user Not a 12 Yr. Old Girl found her profile.

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If you who work for a dating site, founded a dating site, or are thinking about starting one, this post is for you. “The LEK” is a sitcom pilot about a fictional online dating site called The LEK. The episode focuses on the dating site company during the time period leading up to the big [...]

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The Online Publishers Association newsletter talks about security and advertising on Myspace:

For $580 million, News Corp. bought the hottest of the social networking sites, MySpace, with its 55 million members and #5 spot in online traffic. But it also has its hands full. USA Today reports that investigators around the country are examining crimes that [...]

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Herb Vest debated Dan Bender, founder of American Singles and member of the IADW, about online dating background check legislation. Here’s the link from the FoxNews interview.

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BoingBoing has a link to a funny video about Myspace and social networking that recently aired on The Daily Show.

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It’s been an important week for the dating industry. Here are a few stories that didn’t make the front page.

Anonymous calling

A whole slew of companies have tried to enter the dating market to offer anonymous calling services. Most gave up and went after the more lucrative auction market. So why the renewed interest? I’m going [...]

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Rich Gosse and I did another podcast at the Singles Podcast Network. This week’s topics are the Match.com lawsuits, active # of profiles on dating sites, Russian Bride scams, writing a great personal ad with ProfileDoctor, Handwritingprofiles.com, and what are dating sites doing to court the other 50 million singles not dating online?

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The WSJ (sub req’d) has an article by Jessica Mintz about the implications of the “Who’s Viewed Me” feature on Friendster. The article depicts the sensitive nature of the increased transparency afforded by new features that expose our viewing habits to to others, sometimes without our knowledge. I got the final say, complaining that [...]

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