• Interview With MeetMoi CEO Alex Harrington

    Updated: 2012-06-29 18:09:31
    Enjoy this podcast I did with Alex Harrington, CEO of mobile dating pioneer Meetmoi. © 2012 - visit Online Dating Insider to view original post.

  • Facebook Find Friends Nearby Will Either Destroy Or Energize Mobile Dating

    Updated: 2012-06-26 17:06:18
    People always say that Facebook is for keeping in touch with people you already know, and MeetMe, Badoo and other social services are for discovering new people. Well that’s about to change, big time. The new Facebook Friend Finder feature lets people find and connect with current friends as well as discover new friends nearby. [...]

  • Did Badoo Acquire Stepout?

    Updated: 2012-06-25 22:50:26
    Either Badoo acquired Stepout, or Stepout took some of the $2.4M they raised in January and cloned Badoo’s business model and the display bar at the top of the page. The pay-for-points freemium access model is a bit different, with two options, chat with unlimited number of people for a day, a week or a month or [...]

  • Online Dating Industry News 6-22-12

    Updated: 2012-06-22 16:23:26
    Gay-spotting mobile app Grindr gets around 1 million monthly visitors. Sex offenders in Louisiana must list their status on Facebook, other social media. What’s next, limiting what they can Like on Facebook? Where will the scarlet letters be featured on their profile? What’s the logic here? IF user IS sex maniac IN Louisiana THEN display sex maniac badge ELSE [...]

  • Facebook Acquires Israeli Facial Recognition Company

    Updated: 2012-06-18 21:50:00
    Facebook has acquired Face.com, the company that has been providing you with the ability to automatically tag people in photos on Facebook for the last two years. Back in January, Face.com launched KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone. Connect the app to your Facebook account, hold your iPhone up to someone’s face, and [...]

  • Dating Industry News 6-18-12

    Updated: 2012-06-18 18:39:21
    This is one way to see how TheCompleteMe is growing. Send in the clones: TheDatable Launches To Help You Discover The Singles In Your Social Graph. Another Likebright/TheCompleteMe social dating app. I’ve been using them all for  a while now, current version of Yoke, if they clean up the hotornot feature, is coming alone nicely. It [...]

  • The Hardest Dating Site Question Ever

    Updated: 2012-06-15 19:47:21
    Now that I’m in the process of evolving into a Vermonster, I’m changing up my profiles on various dating sites. This question on OkCupid has been in my emails from them and featured in the sidebar for weeks now. Questions about drugs and and weird experiences in college aren’t a problem, I’m an open book [...]

  • Online Dating Industry News 6-15-12

    Updated: 2012-06-15 19:35:48
    While browsing AngelList, I came across Pinstant Karma which calls itself “A pitch-perfect convergence of match.com and Pinterest that will energize the online dating segment.” With stunning visual pin boards singles can easily ‘like’ and comment on eachother’s interests. No more essays, quizzes, or pseudoscience, just easy conversations about common interests all within a familiar Web 2.0, [...]

  • Skout Flirting App Tied to Rapes of Children

    Updated: 2012-06-13 16:19:56
    This is the kind of story I hate writing. Skout, longtime friends of Online Dating Insider and the dating industry, has had three occurrences of rape tied to the services in the last few weeks. In After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces Crisis, the New York Times reports: In the last two weeks, Skout has been used [...]

  • Online Dating Industry News 6-12-12

    Updated: 2012-06-12 21:07:54
    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 securing passwords. When I ran Profile Doctor we had better [...]

  • uknowuwana - 35,M,London (Ontario)

    Updated: 2012-06-11 03:55:57
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