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Lunch With MaxMind, Giant Red Shoes

I had lunch with Ed from MaxMind today. The weather is still warm enough to eat outside which is great, as we Bostonians are counting down the days until the first frost. IT execs at dating sites know what MaxMind is, due to the popularity of their GeoIP and Minfraud...

FollowMeCupid Virtual Dating Chaperone

Chris Nguyen at Cupid.com wrote in to announce the launch of a safety feature called FollowMeCupid.com. FollowMeCupid is one of those services where you enter your date details and a contact into the website. If you don’t check in on time your contact is, well,...

Girls Teach Guys

A group of 20-somethings has created a website called Girls Teach Guys. The idea behind the site is to publish real and uncensored advice and tips from the opposite sex. The advice is provided as video clips, most look like they were recorded with webcams, although...

Fighting Image-Based Fraud And Spam

I am fortunate to be working with Sobayli, a great startup in NYC working on a pattern recognition and proprietary image based solutions for preventing user generated liability. Sobayli is able to block multiple classes of inappropriate content in real time, and they...

Lunch with iovation

Had lunch with Glenn from iovation today. Beautiful fall day here in Boston, perfect for sitting outside and chatting for a few hours. I am seriously getting interested in fraud detection services, lots of interesting solutions, partnerships and deals going on....