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Safer dating?

MSNBC.com has a piece on national commercial database searches(thanks Markus!). [Update: According to the NY Times, Reed Elsevier, owner of the LexisNexis databases, said (reg req’d) today that Social Security numbers, driver’s license information and the...

Hot new niche site, gorgeousgrandmas.com

NY Times has article (reg req’s) about senior dating. Not much to it but here are some stats. According to Nielsen/Net Ratings, the number of online dating site users 55 or older rose 19.4 percent in the last year. Match.com’s 50-plus membership has...

Truedater member reviews

TrueDater is a new site offering user-supplied reviews of dating sites members. TrueDater, a funded startup founded by Mark, Geller. I spent some time on the phone with Mark and his PR guy, Jamie Diamond. trueDaters is a free forum is targeted at the masses, allowing...

Meetic plans 3Q IPO

Marc Simoncini, chairman of Meetic, is planning on taking the company public in the fall. Marc sent me some of the French press release, which I’ve run through Google Translate. Marc made sure to personally translate that they are shooting for a $300-450M USD...

Dating site developers

I have heard from several people recently who are looking for dependable website developers with experience building dating sites. Stephen writes: My designers here have never built a dating site before. I am wanting to ask you if you know any companies here in...

360 Degrees of Separation

360 Degrees of Separation- I finally logged into my Yahoo! 360 account. Withholding comments until I’ve had more time to play around with it. It’s asking me to create yet another blog. Let’s see, 4 or 5 blogs that I post to, 10 or so personal...

WeAttract follow-up

Mark Thompson at WeAtract emailed to follow up on a previous conversation. He sees a a need for a personality test product that 2nd and 3rd tier sites can use. WeAttract is working on this and addressing some of the IT integration issues. Smaller sites have Cadillac...

Too much Florida sun?

Rep. Kevin Ambler, R-Tampa and Sen. Victor Crist probably wish they were out fishing in the Keys instead of wrangling with the current online dating legistation. Associated Press points out that in his more than six years with the Florida Department of Law...

Looking Better Online

I’ve been checking out the cool digital imaging tools at Fujifilm that you might have heard about at iDate. I also heard from Soflex, which has Automated Profile Screening Technology and image adjustment system. More on this next week after the demo. In the...