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Using Utterz for today’s today’s podcast.
Today’s audio blog topics:
Gender-bending Match.com thinks my women are men.

Match.com powers Penguin books dating site. Via Mynameiskate.
Speed Dating Goes White Label with Randodate.
DatingAdNetwork blog: Dmitry from RussianFlora talks about foreign brides scam fighting, while Julia from Pilot Group shares her thoughts on dating start-ups and more. http://blog.datingadnetwork.com/
I received this from [...]

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OnlineSpeedDating.com is available, a great strategic asset to an online speed dating company or one that’s about to enter that space. Contact vladravin at gmail dot com for details.

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Match.com will start advertising to affluent singles.
The new Honesty Online blog.
I grow weary of signing up for new dating sites. Does anyone actually think to ask if their questions are any good? Why don’t dating sites link to popular photo-sharing sites? I have to open up iPhoto, find a photo crop/export it to desktop, then [...]

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Lot’s of news to cover, rumors to mull over, a tremendous amounts of comments, dating site launches and as always, much love to our sponsors, Userplane, SkaDate, ivoation and Dating Ad Network. Click their ads and find out how they can help you run a successful online dating site.
I had lunch with Ravi @ Viximo [...]

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OmniDate is getting some heavy PR after they redesigned the site. WooMe just got $12 million to make video introductions and SpeedDate continues to grow in popularity. Will people prefer Flash-based avatars from Omnidate, live video conversations from WooMe or strictly speed-dating from SpeedDate? Which company will be the first to land a large dating [...]

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Two big fundraising events in the past week have occurred.
First, online videochat service WooMe has raised $12.5 Million. That’s an enormous amount of money for a videochat site, but after having a conversation with CEO Stephen Stokols I’m pretty confident that they know exactly what they are doing. The Series B round was led by [...]

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I’m excited to be working with World Singles, who’s Arab Lounge is in the news. You’ve probably seen their advertising which is all over the place these days.
Farmers Weekly Interactive launches Muddy Matches online dating service. Love the name but the people on the home page don’t look like farmer’s to me.
Dating DNA brings online [...]

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Online video introduction site WooMe sent me the results of a Harris Interactive poll that point to one of the main reasons why online dating sites fail – because there is no live interaction with video.
I disagree that video is a main reason why online dating sites have trouble attracting new members and creating lasting [...]

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Several years ago I worked on a business plan for a speed dating application built on top of Skype. After my conversation with Stephen at WooMe I dug up the feature list and thought it would be interesting to compare what we were thinking about back then with what WooMe and SpeedDate are doing.

Video and [...]

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