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RSS application updates

I used to live in my web browser, now I live in my RSS newsreader. I have a feed folder called keepup. It contains blog feeds to several popular services I use daily. Technorati, del.icio.us, Feedburner, Bloglines, Flickr, etc. Today the Flickr feed pushed down an...

Dating Site Critiques

The Dating & Discovery consulting group at Corante, which I lead, has been ramping up a variety of consulting services that we have begun offering to dating sites. Dating Site Critiques: More and more sites are asking to be audited. Mostly niches serving unique...

Zovine instant messenger up for sale

Zovine is selling their instant messenger product. Zovine, Inc. is seeking buyers who are looking to enter quickly into the internet dating / social networking industry, while saving 4 years on developing such a messenger. The entire source code of Zovine Messenger,...

SpringStreet photo manager b0rked

Over the weekend I uploaded most of my photos from iPhotos up to Flickr, the photo management service recently picked up by Yahoo. Flickr is the best photo mangement system for me by far. Amazing in many ways, I love it’s interface for managing photos sets and...

True.com interview with OPW

Mark Brooks interviews Herb Vest over at Online Personals Watch. A little less fluff than the last interview with PerfectMatch CEO. High point of the interview- Vest now wants dating sites to label their personality tests as “fun” or “serious.”...

Tribe.net launches new profiles

It’s been a while since I posted here. Lot’s of interesting stuff in my backlog that I’ll be getting to over the next few days. A while back I mentioned that Tribe.net was working on a new profile system. After months of testing, the new features are...

Review of Dating Industry Resources

Over the years I have found several blogs that cover the online dating industry. There are hundreds that cover online dating. I’m not interested in those. I decided to start a list of useful blogs, talk about what makes them worth visiting, and how they can...

Lavalife members are slightly crazed sports fans

Lavalife polled a bunch of members and found that 41% of the 2,445 Lavalife singles polled said they would streak during an NBA game to ensure their team was victorious. The polls were done just in time for the NBA finals. Lavalife hosts two NBA Finals viewing parties...