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ID verification shootout postponed

by | Legal

I’m swamped with a bunch of different project so I’m going to postpone the ID verification shootout. After thinking about diving into the details of adjudication processes, the “who’s data is better” arguments and all the rest I’ve...

ODI Sponsorship and email list

by | Uncategorized

SITRAS is postponed, IDate is next year, how are you going to promote your products and services to the online dating industry? Simple. Sponsor Online Dating Insider with an ad, a sponsored entry or special newsletter. There is no better way to get out in front of the...

Wanadoo and Match UK

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Wanadoo and Match UK: Two-year deal, six-figure UK deal is an extension of a partnership between Match.com and Wanadoo in Spain, France and The Netherlands. [Update: Marc@Meetic tells me Meetic has the Wanadoo deal in France, as well as 60 others, the Wanadoo...

Userplane announces Sitesearch

by | Dating Site Technology

Last week I mentioned Sitesearch, comparing it to Transparensee. It turns out that Sitesearch is in fact the Transparensee technology. Userplane’s search application re-indexes membership data to allow “most-similar” search results, providing users...

Safer dating?

by | Dating Safety

MSNBC.com has a piece on national commercial database searches(thanks Markus!). [Update: According to the NY Times, Reed Elsevier, owner of the LexisNexis databases, said (reg req’d) today that Social Security numbers, driver’s license information and the...