Online Dating Industry News 6-12-12
Match Stir events are live in Miami. By now everyone knows that eHarmony was hacked. For all the dimensions of compatibility, the press releases about big data, the tech meetups, big IT infrastructure, data centers, Hadoop, etc., you would think they spent a few days...Meet Market Adventures
Some client love to spread around today. I love working with Travis at Meet Market Adventures, great guy, solid business model focused on bringing together singles with face-to-face group adventures. Match can have the urban bar event scene, which pales in comparison...Mary Meeker’s Latest Annual State Of The Web
Every year, Mary Meeker, puts together *the* go-to presentation on the State Of The Web. Dating startups, you’ll like the mobile stuff in particular. With all of the focus on mobile dating, the iPad is absolutely crushing it, yet I never hear anything about iPad...Flikdate Launching Mobile Video Speed-dating
TechCrunch has a review of a new mobile video dating app called Flikdate. Its the first all-female founded dating startup I’ve ever heard of, cool. Snip: By default, every conversation is limited to 90 seconds and costs you one flik. If, however, you decide that...Lavalife Proves Women Need a Break from Incessant Instant Messages On Dating Sites
Lavalife users can now turn off the Instant Messaging feature. Prepare for outrage from male users. With a simple click of a button, Lavalife.com members now have the option of turning off the instant messaging functionality for 10 minutes, allowing anyone who may be...Online Dating Industry News 6-4-12
Look at how Ubercall lets you gain access to features by completing tasks. I know daters don’t want online dating to be even more difficult and time consuming, but I like the idea of making people do something to get a rating, reputation, etc. Love is a Tesla...The Battle of The Social Dating Startups
Social dating, you’re either building a social dating site, you’re on a social dating site, or you don’t know what it means and don’t care. If you’re curious, two leading examples of social dating sites are TheCompleteMe and...Sponsored Post: CrowdFlower Crowdsourced Content Moderation
We are CrowdFlower, a San Francisco crowdsourcing company. We take big complex data projects, break them down into small simple repetitive projects, which we call “microtasks,” and send them to an online workforce, otherwise known as the “crowd.” Our crowd...Online Dating Industry News 5-23-12
How We Did It: Catherine Cook and Geoff Cook, founders of myYearbook. Social Discovery app Ntro launched months ago, backed By $1.7 million in funding, via TechCrunch. Other similar apps have been pulled from the marketplace, yet Ntro raises $1.7 million. Have you...
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