What’s Up With Userplane?
There is some buzz this week about Userplane shutting down, although until I hear from Janet or someone else on the team I’m going to hold off on linkbait blog titles like at OPW. If in fact Userplane is shutting down, dating sites are going to have to find an...More Twitter Dating Applications
Here are a few Twitter dating applications from the Twitter Fan Wiki. Radaroo – Simple and free Twitter dating application. Twitcush – Declare a Twitcrush on someone, see who has declared one on you! (Great for getting the attention of Twitterati.) (By...Online Transparency Leads to New World of Group Dating
Louis Gray has a guest post by Micah Baldwin, Online Transparency Leads to New World of Group Dating, about how dating has been changed by social media. Connecting the dots between how transparency leads to group dating is proving difficult and I can’t say that...Seeking Online Dating Lawsuit Comments
A reporter has been asking questions about various lawsuits that have been brought against online dating services. I’d love to have some customers comment on whether their individual complaints are motivated more by emotions (disappointment, frustration re:...The Rise Of An Underground Facebook Market
AllFacebook says that there is a growing market for purchasing Facebook Profiles. This reminds me of people who contact me looking for dating profiles. Pre-populating a dating site with fake profiles is a really bad idea. Short of acquiring a dating site and merging...Old Browers Make Dating Sites Look Broken
Old web browsers can make certain dating sites look broken. If you maintain the front end of a dating site you might want to look into XBDiff, a service for checking how web pages look in multiple browsers. XBDiff is an automated solution to your cross browser layout...Skout Offers White Label Mobile Dating Service
Christian at skout.com emailed with some big news.Get your own mobile dating service: Skout will white label its’ solution to enable anyone to run their own mobile dating service. The structure is simple; 1) You provide logo and colors, 2) Skout provides your...Sprint Hearts OKCupid
Happy Cinco de Mayo. Let us bow to the gods of Patrone today, in moderation, please. I’m going to try and meet up with Sam Yagan at OKCupid today. Sam recently sent me this Sprint ad which ran in the NYT, USA Today, WSJ, etc. Check out the last item on the...Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos
The Facebook Engineering blog outlines the custom-built infrastructure used to manage 60 billion images on the social network. Fascinating stuff, talk about fixing the airplane engine during flight. Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of...
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