Online Dating Insider

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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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Aldo Castañeda posted our podcast discussing the marketing implications and emerging surfaces of identity and attention systems. The talk primarily covers the layers of the identity stack, with particular focus on data providers and aggregators leading up to my thoughts on how our digital self will be represented in the future.
The podcast is located [...]

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Listening to Bill Gates, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Skype and Cisco CEO John Chambers and moderator Geoffry Moore (Crossing the Chasm) in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
The podcast is a rich vein of deep thinking, too much to get into here but I will say the first thing that [...]

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Today marks the inaugural Online Dating Insider podcast. I haven’t done my own podcast in many moons, usually I use Skype to talk to the interviewer, and they take the raw audio file and convert it to MP3 after an hour or so tweaking the quality. Consider this an experiment/beta while I get up [...]

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Dan Bender posted the latest Dating Industry Insider podcast at the Singles Podcasting Network where I talk with host Rich Gosse “about the battle between traditional dating websites and social networking sites such as Myspace and Friendster. We get into new products and chat options that Vivox is offering to help both dating and [...]

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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 world’s first podcasting network for singles is now available at SinglesPodcastingNetwork. SPN is sponsored by American Singles Education, Inc., the world’s largest non-profit singles organization.
Dan Bender is the Executive Producer of the network. Dan is better known as a co-founder of AmericanSingles.com, along with Riche Gosse, who does most of the podcast interviews. [...]

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I did another Singles Podcasting Network show with Rich Gosse. The tag line for the site is “Learn about what is going on behind the scenes in the dating industry from experts in the know. 15 minutes of news and rumors not to be missed.” Sums it up about right.

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Online Dating Insider is now audio-enabled! Select “Listen to audio” at the bottom of each post to listen to the text in your default audio program. Brand new posts take a while to be converted, most of the older posts at the bottom of the page are ready to go. Text-to-speech services brought to you [...]

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Podcasting has arrived! Eric, Alex and the guys over at Corante Eventlab hooked me up with a setup to post audioblog entries. I’m exhausted from a 5am wakeup call to do an interview on BBC Radio Scotland, go here if you want to know more about podcasting. Email me if you would like to sponsor [...]

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