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...
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 on...
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 pu...
I love love love HowAboutWe’s Flash Contest from March (lag, I know!). No question, the HowAboutWe marketing department runs circles around the rest of the online dating industry and their goof...
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...
Match.com is launching a game service for singles. To play you are required to hack into a government mainframe with a secret password, and the game unfolds like this: Joshua: Shall we play a game? D...
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 sched...
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 Exci...
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 withou...
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 do...
Big news, social discovery/dating site Badoo is on track to hit 150 million users today. Corporate communications at Badoo told me that they attribute the 150,000 daily new users in part to mobile an...
Device reputation firm iovation did some research and found that the online dating fraud rate originating from Europe grew 357% between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012. The exact breakdown was: Q1 2011 = .22 Q2 ...
I just got back from a weekend meditation retreat. At one point there were 24 of us sitting on cushions in a room overlooking the mountains of New York State, with an amazing sunset and all of a sudd...
When I met Maria Coder a few years ago, she was writing about online dating for the Examiner blog network. Today, Maria runs Investidate, a service which offers workshops focused on making sure your...
Several years ago I met Christian and (at the time) Redg at Skout, think it was iDate. After talking to them a while I wanted to help them out with fundraising, so I went to the usual suspects and sa...
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 ...
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 girl...
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. ...
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...
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 fe...
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...
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 Netw...
Living single in a big city like Boston is great. There is never any shortage of people to go out with who are at least close to the type of person you want to date. From bible-thumper hotties to les...
Facebook’s data team is going all OkCupid on us in terms of releasing relationship data about their users. OkCupid does a great job measuring a few million singles, but Facebook super-sizes the sampl...
Its amazing how many dating sites don’t take the time to write a blog or post up social media content. For all the grief I give HowAboutWe on the premise of their business model, their blog kic...
Online dating industry veterans continue to attack JDate’s market share. This time it’s Avalanche LLC, which runs Date.com, Matchmaker and a number of other sites. According to CEO Meir S...
Customer acquisition and retention experts at vindicia have been tracking global activity for its many online dating clients. They are seeing first-hand how Facebook in particular, is contributing to...
And we’re back. Well that was a nice blog break, I’ve been hanging out in Vermont and am fully recharged and ready to go. Next week I’m moving into to a cool little wooden home in t...
For those of you who were unable to attend eAmore last night, here’s another dating industry event for you. The main conference days (3 & 4 March) are fully orientated to bringing you more ...
Marketdata Enterprises has updated their US Dating Industry Study, bringing it up to date for 2012. We’ve arranged for Online Dating Insider readers to be able to order the report for $1,325, ...
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