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There is no more effective way to get a sense of someones tastes, preferences and personality than a five minute video chat. Only companies really doing anything with video are SpeedDate, which is getting north of 1.5 million visitors a month and the young kids are using Woome. I haven’t used SpeedDate in a while, [...]
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Last week I talked with Art Harrison at Randodate. Randodate offers a speed dating application which can be embedded in a dating site or social network, similar to IM/Chat applications like Topicfox and Toksta.
Enter Ning, the social network for social networks, which recently hit the 1 million networks milestone. Ning Apps was launched last week [...]
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SpeedDate has launched an Android application that offers portable, immediate and 24-hour access to the millions of singles engaged in online dating. By downloading the free application to your Android phone, users can leave their computer screens and be able to message dates throughout the day no matter their location. SpeedDate has an iPhone [...]
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Speeddate.com had two women going on speed dates for 24 hours on Valentine’s Day.
Sarah, one of the participants, had this to say about the experience.
It all began when I entered a contest on SpeedDate.com that a friend of mine saw that I might be interested in doing. It said they were looking for people to [...]
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I received this email from Speeddate today. I am not exactly enthusiastic about meeting 52369, I prefer even numbers.
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Dan Abelon wrote in to say that Speeddate has won the Blogger’s Choice in the Open Web Awards for the Dating/Romance category. Okcupid was the runner-up.
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TechCrunch say that SpeeDate has hijacked over 500,000 Facebook users from other Facebook applications.
As far as we can tell, all three modified applications were developed by HappyAppy, so it’s likely that SpeedDate either acquired the company with the $6 million it raised last month or the two companies share the same development team. Users are [...]
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Online Dating Insider sponsor HonestyOnline is now providing identify verification to speed dating services.
FastLife.com, the world’s largest speed dating service, has partnered with Honestly Online Inc. to launch Prestige Speed Dating, designed exclusively for established singles concerned about the personal history of the people they date. Set to launch Thursday, September 25th in New York [...]
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Spectacular weather here in Boston this week. Yesterday’s al fresco meeting on Newbury Street briefly touched on SpeedDate, which announced that it has raised an additional $6 million. Competitor Woome got in trouble when they used Chace Crawford’s (Gossip Girls) photo on the homepage and forgot to ask permission, oops!
Spend a dollar at AirbrushDate and [...]
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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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