TrueScoop Offers Free Background Checks On Facebook
The first Senior Engineer at Facebook has launched a background check service on, you guessed it, Facebook. TrueScoop, an Arbor Venture’s product, today announced the release of a new Facebook application which searches through over 20 million records and a million...Valentine’s Day Online Dating Incentives
From the inbox: SpeedDate is giving away $500 and Mate1 is offering a Three-Day $1.95 trial. Zoosk Offers Members Free Connections on February 13 and 14.Date.com Offering Virtual Gifts
Avalanche, owners of Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com, has introduced virtual gifts. This Valentine’s Day, our members have the option of showing affection and interest by spending $1 on a virtual bouquet of roses which will digitally last forever. Compared to...Skout Launches iPhone Application
Skout is a mobile, real-time, location-based dating service that lets members chat with, share photos, and find dates with other singles in their vicinity. The Skout iPhone application has finally been approved by the App store. I’d like to review the site while...Valentine’s Day Media Inquiries
I’ve been on at least 10 media calls over the past several days. Nobody is asking about dating trends for 2009. Reporters want to know about white label dating providers, video and niche sites this year. No questions about background checks, which was last...EU Dating Market Size
Eric Klaassen of Datingfacts, a dating blog in the Neterhlands, has written about the size of the EU dating market. I’ve translated the following from his original post, not perfect but you get the idea. Number of users is growing fast in Europe Volgens Jupiter...Online Dating Billing Options
Most new dating sites these days are free, and payment providers are focusing on getting dating sites to switch over to their system with promises of lower rates. Online payment system providers were out in force at iDate. I liked this Vindicia special landing page...I Want You to Want Me (Visual Remix)
This is an old link but as a fan of data visualization tools I wanted to share. FlowingDating says: Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar collaborated again in their featured piece at New York Museum of Modern Art’s Design of the Elastic Mind exhibit. Similar in flavor...Dating iPhone Applications Drive $1.4 Billion Mobile Dating Market
According to TechCrunch, Juniper Research has just released a new report that claims the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market will grow to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013. That number is generous to a fault but growth is unavoidable, as mobile dating platforms,...
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