OPW — Sep 4 — How badly did we screw up with this new design for OPW? Or did we get
it right? We tried to make the site easier to read and focus on what
counts, the posts. Your comments please.
Month: September 2008
OmniDate Finalists Of Red Herring Canada Top 50
OPW — Sep 4 — OmniDate, a creator of a virtual dating application, is one of this year's finalists for the Red Herring Canada Top 50 Awards. The award celebrates the most innovative and promising companies in Canada. Red Herring Canada evaluated several hundred nominees based on criteria including growth potential, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy and integration into their ecosystem. The Top 50 Winners will be announced at the Red Herring Canada event on September 16 in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.
iovation Video Guides
OPW — Sep 4 — iovation is helping the internet dating industry to work together to beat scammers, spammers, fraudsters and those that would be abusive towards social networking communities. They've listed a number of introductory videos on their site and I picked the following two off as being particularly worthy of your attention. The first is by the VP Marketing, Scott Olson, and the second, by the CEO & Founder, Greg Pierson. (Disclosure: iovation is a client of Courtland Brooks and kindly sponsors OPW)
Online Communities: https://www.iovation.com/resources/white-papers/iovation-keep-communities-safe-white-paper
Online Gambling: https://www.iovation.com/resources/white-papers/iovation-expose-fraud-rings-gambling-white-paper
Psismic Matches People Over Things They Like
TECH CRUNCH — Sep 2 — Psismic has a novel approach to internet dating. Rather than simply stating who you are, or taking a personality profile, Psismic lets users upload interesting pictures and videos, text posts and links. Then others indicate if they like what you've posted and the site serves up matches based on who likes the same items. The site is minimal in nature, well laid out and easy to navigate. There's really not a lot to it. The main page shows the all-important "Post Stream" which shows all the posts from other users. — author Mark Brooks FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
Bad Press Release #1 – Findadate.com
Mark Brooks: I'm starting a new series of posts on bad press releases. Here's the first one.
Online Dating Has Been Taken to The Next Level
WEBWIRE — Sep 1 — Find a Date helps connect people that are looking for relationships {what kind of relationships?}. This free site offers interactive features such as voting on who's hot and who's not, there's a blog to get up to date information on dating. The forum is especially unique in that you can ask the members what they are looking for in a partner {how is this unique?}. If you're looking for advice as a guy or a girl on how to ask someone out or how to present yourself, visiting Findadate.com isn't just a recommendation, it's a must! {fluff} As if that wasn't enough {more pitchy fluff}, there's even a virtual 3D World. FULL ARTICLE @ WEBWIRE
Internet Dating Newsflashes On Twitter
OPW — Sep 1 — It took a while for me to get into the Twitter groove but now I’m a
Twitterholic. If you want the top internet dating and matchmaking
industry news in even smaller bite sizes, just that little bit sooner,
you can subscribe at Twitter.com/internet_dating. There’s a social networking news twitter as well, at Twitter.com/social_news. My completely meangingless twitter is at Twitter.com/mcbrooks. – Mark Brooks