Video sharing site GoFish is promoting it’s online reality contest, American Dream Date, by posting footage on other video sharing sites. Jet Set energy drinks are the sponsor of the show, which is using social networking to build it’s brand.

Listen to the podcast (1m34s, 2.2 MB). Read more at ClickZ.

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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 at http://storyofdigid.wordpress.com/2006/05/30/episode-29/.

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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 jumped out at me in regards to the dating industry was when Zennstrom said that Skype would be all about click-to-call form the web to initiate discussion between buyers and sellers. Aside from Google is getting into this space as well with Adwords, this got me thinking about what dating sites have in place to keep daters from using their Yahoo, AOL and IM chat clients for anonymous calling? Almost all chat clients have some sort of VOIP feature and there is inherent value to anonymous calling but what is the economic model that supports paying for it when you can get it for free?

“Membername is superflyguy, same on Skype/AOL/MSN.” the net-savvy men and women do this presently, but not at a large enough scale that sites take the time to effectively filter out the external reference. If members can do this, why would agree to use an integrated chat client?

Userplane has owned the chat side of the dating space for quite some time and new entrants like Vivox and some of the click-to-call vendors are poking around taking the temperature of the industry. I’m wondering if their reception will be as cold as it was for the background check providers, who could offer an immediate new revenue stream whereas the chat side of things is more of a stickieness factor.

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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 to speed on the audio issues. Hopefully the podcasts will sound better over time as I dial-in my setup.

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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 social networking sites to increase their stickiness.”

My new mic/headset sounds much better, no more bathroom echo. I have to train myself to be more prepared for these interviews, usually Rich and I bat around story ideas the day before so I have time to prepare a few thoughts as opposed to my propensity for stream-of-consciousness interviews.

You can visit the Singles Podcasting Network, which has the confusing url of podcastsinglesnetwork.com, listen to interviews in Window Media, MP3 or simple subscribe to the RSS feed from the home page.

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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. The site feautres the world’s top authorities on dating, relationships, singles travel, sex, and financial planning for singles to share their secrets for living a happy single lifestyle and connecting with someone special.

Anyone who has an RSS news reader can subscribe to The Singles Podcasting Network at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpnSingleLiving.

I’ve got a few pieces up there, it’s turning into a nice weekly interview schedule. Hats off to Dan and Rick for putting the site together.

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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 by Talkr.com.

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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 an audiostream or podcast.

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