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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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Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts.
ReadWriteWeb says:

More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms were URLs (match.com, plentyoffish.com) and almost [...]

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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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I finally got around to installing a real ad serving platform for the blog. I’ll be able to share better stats with advertisers from here on out. If you’re interesting in sponsoring Online Dating Insider, contact me.
Nicolas B., you contacted me but forgot to include your email address. Let’s connect so we can meet up [...]

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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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Spring is here in Boston. The striped bass are jumping out of the water in Boston harbor down the street, expect some fish pix next week. The grill is out, wifi working on the porch and I’m working with some fantastic clients on making their dating sites more social and viral.
A warm welcome to our [...]

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Infrequent posting lately. Was in New York City for a lost weekend, finishing up projects, spending some mental health time out of the office and checking out traffic stats as part of a preemptive move to posting twice a week.
Looks like I’m going to be part of a dating-related radio show, which is doing a [...]

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Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day. Today I feel like accountants must feel on April 16th.
In my quest to learn more about the role of fraud detection in online dating, I had lunch with Maxmind. Talking with the fraud guys is a real eye-opener. There are a number of companies working around the clock [...]

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It’s Just Lunch sued. A group of well-heeled women who paid up to $1,500 to snag a man through one of the nation’s priciest and fast-growing online dating services — It’s Just Lunch — has filed a civil lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, claiming the lunchtime setups were not what they bargained for.
Wedding Web 2.0 [...]

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SinglesNet and PlentyofFish at #1 and 2 on Hitwise rankings. Ok, but how much are they paying for the traffic? One million dollars? $10 million? The cost of traffic is something nobody talks about. MSN Dating (Match.c0m), went from #3 to #14, ouch.
True.com selects Midnight Coders for delivery of next generation online dating services. TRUE.com®, [...]

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