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Two items of interest from Online Dating Insider sponsors.
iovation Partners with IDology to Combat Online Fraud and ID Theft

iovation, the Device Reputation Authority™ for the Internet, and IDology, Inc., an innovative provider of identity and age verification solutions, today announced a partnership to provide online businesses with a stronger, multi-layered authentication and fraud prevention solution that combines best-of-breed identity and device-based fraud management techniques to reduce online fraud and identity theft.
Press release.

Honesty Online is developing an identity credential for Facebook

Facebook doesn’t offer a “verified profile” service. There does seem to be an opportunity here for a 3rd-party identity verification credentialing service. Honesty Online has looked at this opportunity. But how to build a robust solution, that is, one that provides a credential that itself can’t easily be spoofed, isn’t obvious. Our existing anti-spoofing security measures rely on close integration with the partner site offering our verification service, and [...]

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Mail.ru, a major portal in Russia and the country’s first billion-dollar internet firm, has purchased a 30 percent stake in online dating site Mamba for $15 million. Read the rest, including an overview of the Russian dating marketing, at Marketing Vox.

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Andrew Chen guest posts at Startonomics, 5 Startup tips for Maximixing Ad Revenue.
Startanomics is a conference happening in October were Andrew will lead a session on:

Revenue: The Internet Wants to Be Free, but You Need to Get Paid
Learn how to generate revenue using a variety of business models & strategies including advertising, digital goods, subscriptions, lead generation, & e-commerce.

Andrew really knows what he’s talking about, his blog is a daily read for me.

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Spectacular weather here in Boston this week. Yesterday’s al fresco meeting on Newbury Street briefly touched on SpeedDate, which announced that it has raised an additional $6 million. Competitor Woome got in trouble when they used Chace Crawford’s (Gossip Girls) photo on the homepage and forgot to ask permission, oops!
Spend a dollar at AirbrushDate and they will freshen up your profile photos. I’m sure your date will appreciate that you look nothing like your profile pic.
Bill Tancer at Hitwise, who talks about online dating traffic stats from time to time, is launching his first book: Click – What Millions of People Do Online and Why it Matters.
SocialU is a desktop-based social networking portal. I wish someone would do this for dating sites. Via Mashable.
Online Personals Watch says that WhiteLabelDating continues its growth streak with a $20m run rate and 15% growth each month. According to WLD’s co-founder, Ross Williams, the [...]

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UK firm Phones 4u and the 3G Dating Agency are bundling mobile phones with a dating service. I love that the 3G Dating Agency is utilizing QR barcodes and 3G phones with video capabilities. In five years we will all be using QR codes, I bet marketers and American Idol will embrace the technology and make it a household standard.
As for 3G video phones, Nokia is the major player in the US, their phones stream video live to the web at places like Qik.com. My hacked iPhone does it, barely. We are so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mobile phones, it makes me sad.
I can’t imagine what video calls from mobile phones between people meeting for the first time are going to be like. Woome has posted some of their member videochats on the homepage and they are truly painful to sit through.

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Jeremiah Owyang has posted this week’s Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space. Jeremiah was in Cambridge last night at a tweetup which I missed because I took a friend to her chemo appointment. This weeks post of interest, Dontdatehimgirl was mentioned in Scientific America.

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dave@digicraft.com wrote an intriguing post today on
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Hi Evan:
I think I know the painful answer to this one but here it goes.. I married a guy 10 years younger than me (then 31/21). It was great for the first 3 years, and then he left for no good reason. One day, he just said "I want to be married but I want […]

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Question: I’m in a relationship I know is doomed, what do I do? So you find someone you really like. You hook up and all is well. But deep down…

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Using Utterz for today’s today’s podcast.
Today’s audio blog topics:
Gender-bending Match.com thinks my women are men.

Match.com powers Penguin books dating site. Via Mynameiskate.
Speed Dating Goes White Label with Randodate.
DatingAdNetwork blog: Dmitry from RussianFlora talks about foreign brides scam fighting, while Julia from Pilot Group shares her thoughts on dating start-ups and more. http://blog.datingadnetwork.com/
I received this from eHarmony:
As a valued member of eHarmony, we’d like to inform you about an important upgrade to eHarmony’s service that will be launching this week.
Improved customer experience with “My Matches”
Your feedback is very important to us. To address the feedback we’ve received, we have removed the ‘On Hold’ feature to help improve the communication process.
As a result, new matches delivered to you starting August 22, 2008 can no longer be placed ‘On Hold’. This will enable and encourage you to let your matches know if you’re interested sooner. This will also make it easier for you [...]

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