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Dating Industry News 5-18-12

Admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:49:52 +0000

Dating Industry News 5-18-12

I’m psyched about my 1.5 million Facebook shares, which is going to make me filthy rich. I’m planning on dumping them this afternoon, moving to the tropics and becoming a banana farmer. I kid, I kid, but can you imagine how the new crop of multi-millionaires and billionaires feels right now? Minutes away from changing their lives forever, amazing and somewhat depressing (looks down at drawer full of 20 years of startup options that never vested)…

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Dating Industry News 5-18-12 – onlinedatingpost.com

Match Stirs Online Dating Up With Live Events & Games

Admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:39:14 +0000

Match Stirs Online Dating Up With Live Events & Games

This morning I had a Skype videochat with Match.com President Mandy Ginsberg and Shar Dubey, Vice President of Product. Mandy and Shar took some time out of their busy Internet Week in New York schedule to share supplemental detail to the Match blog posts and press releases flying around the intewebs today…

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Match Stirs Online Dating Up With Live Events & Games – onlinedatingpost.com

Obama’s Ex-Girlfriend Details Their Relationship + MORE

Admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:15:51 +0000

Obama’s Ex-Girlfriend Details Their Relationship

In an excerpt from a new biography, a woman once romantically involved with Barack Obama describes his warmth and his emotional distance.

For Couples, New Source of Online Friction

Social media can become a source of irritation for couples. Some spouses have started insisting their partners ask for approval before broadcasting comments and photos.

The Never-to-Be Bride — Modern Love

Ours was a love affair that knew its finest hours on a screen.

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Obama’s Ex-Girlfriend Details Their Relationship – nytimes.com
For Couples, New Source of Online Friction – nytimes.com
The Never-to-Be Bride — Modern Love – nytimes.com

Couple of Dating Domain Names + MORE

Admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:15:50 +0000

Bailing on Scoop.it, Whats Up With Me?

After testing out Scoop.it for a few months, its proven to be a great platform for quick posts, but there’s so little traffic being generated that I’m bailing on it. Great platform without a doubt, but just not a good fit for me. I wish WordPress would integrate some of the Scoop.it features, that would be helpful when sourcing photos and content for posts…

Match.com Re-Launching Match Live Events?

This week Match.com’s PR department reached out to set up a time to talk about an important upcoming announcement. Then today the Match blog, Up To Date, features a post, Stay Tuned for an Exciting Announcement from Match.com.
Match.com will be making a BIG announcement on Monday, May 14th that will change the way singles connect, meet, and date- online and offline! Stay tuned here on the Match…

Couple of Dating Domain Names

Someone for the love of God go buy www.SingleHumans.com for $495. Details at Sedo.
Deeper pockets? How about datingonline.com for $40,000? Details at Snapnames.
Why are the landing pages for these domain so crappy? One would think you would at least stuff a few good links on it, even the Godaddy parked pages look better…

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Bailing on Scoop.it, Whats Up With Me? – onlinedatingpost.com
Match.com Re-Launching Match Live Events? – onlinedatingpost.com
Couple of Dating Domain Names – onlinedatingpost.com

Rocket Ninja Launches Lightweight Dating App Be3D + MORE

Admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:42:10 +0000

Rocket Ninja Launches Lightweight Dating App Be3D

While we wait for society and dating sites to figure out how to do video profiles and videochat, the dating industry has had one option when it comes to getting past static profiles.
OmniDate, which many readers will remember from iDates past, was the only pure-play avatar-based dating system. When I first tried Omnidate I sketched out exactly what they had to do to get to the point where they could comfortably say they had a minimum viable product for the dating industry…

Dating Sites on Pinterest

Like the other 10 million of you, I’ve spent some time pinning away on Pinterest. I now understand why the service is 90% women, because most dudes are not going to pin anything unless its girls, guns, stuff with engines or showing off their man caves. Women, on the other hand, have found the new new thing…

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Rocket Ninja Launches Lightweight Dating App Be3D – onlinedatingpost.com
Dating Sites on Pinterest – onlinedatingpost.com

FourSquare Banning Stalking Apps

Admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:27:39 +0000

FourSquare Banning Stalking Apps

Mobile applications that track and make your current location public have proliferated in recent years. Almost all of these efforts have been tied into public Foursquare, and now Facebook, checkins. My favorite has always been Assisted Serendipity, which I’ve written about many times. There are so may other social versions of these apps, I can’t even keep track of them…

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FourSquare Banning Stalking Apps – onlinedatingpost.com

Online Dating Industry Weekly Wrapup

Admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:27:06 +0000

Online Dating Industry Weekly Wrapup

Happy Friday, #followfriday, TGIF and all of that. I threw a bunch of fun and interesting links up on the Online Dating Industry Insider Scoop.it page. Finishing my move to Vermont this weekend, back next week. Here’s to hoping that the cable modem in the woods is fast, feeling a bit cut off from the world lately…

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Online Dating Industry Weekly Wrapup – onlinedatingpost.com

Profile Sellers, The Dating Industry’s Bad Actors

Admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:07:01 +0000

Profile Sellers, The Dating Industry’s Bad Actors

Photo credit: betabeat.com

Anyone who’s been on a dating site has seen them. She’s a beautiful girl with poor grammar skills. She wants to talk via her Yahoo email account and within a few emails she’s often asking for money to come visit you. Thats a clear indication of a dating site scammer, and just about everyone who’s ever joined a dating site has experienced a similar situation…

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Profile Sellers, The Dating Industry’s Bad Actors – onlinedatingpost.com

ChristianMingle Advisor Steps Into The Spotlight + MORE

Admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:51:15 +0000

ChristianMingle Advisor Steps Into The Spotlight

Have you been following the ChristianMingle saga? This is great theater and Spark Networks must be loving the free publicity from Leno, Colbert, etc. Especially delicious is the irony that Spark Networks also runs JDate. Oh what a difference some copywriting and a template makes in the world of competitive niche dating!
From the press release: ChristianMingle’s slogan, “Find God’s Match for You,” which appears in the site’s national advertising campaign – from television commercials to billboards has sparked some controversy…

I’m In Like With You founder Becomes Filthy Rich Overnight

Once upon a time there was a casual auction-based dating site called I’m in Like With You. The basic premise of the site was to gain points for bidding on people by answering questions. I never really understood the site, and then it went away. But this is not a story about another failed dating site…

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ChristianMingle Advisor Steps Into The Spotlight – onlinedatingpost.com
I’m In Like With You founder Becomes Filthy Rich Overnight – onlinedatingpost.com

Apps to Help Singles Flirt Their Way to Romance

Admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:38:12 +0000

Apps to Help Singles Flirt Their Way to Romance

Many matchmaking apps exist, and now more apps to help singles flirt their way to romantic attachment are also popping up.

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Apps to Help Singles Flirt Their Way to Romance – nytimes.com