Month: February 2007

WASHINGTON POST — Jan 30 — Dating sites have been slow to adopt safety-filtering measures; few dating sites conduct their own background checks on members and only onJe seeks to verify marital status. Nearly 60% of Internet users said they think a lot of online daters lie about their marital status, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project study last year. verifies age, identity and address for free, figuring that will draw customers willing to pay an additional $9.95 for criminal checks. Several other background-check firms, like Intelius, which built their businesses doing criminal checks for employers, are increasingly finding customers interested in researching their dates. Jangl offers free temporary phone numbers for dating singles to keep their real phone numbers to themselves.

The full article was originally published at Fay Observer, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: Social telephone number services are on the rise. Jangl essentially provisions conference calls and assigns a unique Jangl id and number to each relationship.  Vumber works differently. A Vumber is a virtual number with a voicemail, so users can record a message which doesn't mention their name or number. (Vumber is my client, fyi).

WASHINGTON POST — Jan 30 — Dating sites have been slow to adopt safety-filtering measures; few dating sites conduct their own background checks on members and only onJe seeks to verify marital status. Nearly 60% of Internet users said they think a lot of online daters lie about their marital status, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project study last year. verifies age, identity and address for free, figuring that will draw customers willing to pay an additional $9.95 for criminal checks. Several other background-check firms, like Intelius, which built their businesses doing criminal checks for employers, are increasingly finding customers interested in researching their dates. Jangl offers free temporary phone numbers for dating singles to keep their real phone numbers to themselves.

The full article was originally published at Fay Observer, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: Social telephone number services are on the rise. Jangl essentially provisions conference calls and assigns a unique Jangl id and number to each relationship.  Vumber works differently. A Vumber is a virtual number with a voicemail, so users can record a message which doesn't mention their name or number. (Vumber is my client, fyi).