OPW – June 11 – Here's three more ads I photographed in New York from Badoo's NYC campaign.
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Month: June 2012
Kiwis Sign Up To Cheat On Partners
3 NEWS – June 8 – More than 15K Kiwis have joined HaveAnAffair.co.nz, an infidelity dating site, since its launch a year ago. As it turns out, the suburbs with the highest number of cheaters are Auckland Central, Wellington Central, and Hamilton Central. Those in their 30s are the highest represented age group, accounting for 28% of the population.
The full article was originally published at 3News, but is no longer available.
eHarmony Confirms Password Breach
COMPUTER WORLD – June 7 – Password hashes for eHarmony were released on the same Russian forum which published the LinkedIn hashes. "After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small fraction of our user base has been affected," wrote Becky Teraoka, of eHarmony's corporate communications. eHarmony's 1.5M password hashes were released in a forum of a Russian password-cracking website called InsidePro.
Ashley Madison Uses Image Of Mexico’s Presidential Front-runner In Ads
ASSOCIATED PRESS – June 6 – Campaign front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has acknowledged cheating on his former wife. A billboard for AshleyMadison.com shows a photo of Pena Nieto wearing a white dress shirt with a red lipstick stain on the collar and a message that reads: “Unfaithful to His Family. Faithful and Committed to His Country.”
The full article was originally published at Washington Post, but is no longer available.
Flikdate: First Mobile Live Video Dating Service
TECH CRUNCH – May 31 – Flikdate for iOS is all about live video calls, making it feels more like a mix of Chatroulette and Match.com than the current crop of video dating services. Users sign up with Facebook login, tell the service if they want to chat with men or women, and after that, it just takes one click to get started. The service works over 3G and WiFi. By default, every conversation is limited to 90 seconds and costs one flik. If they want to talk for longer, they can go on a virtual “date” for 5 fliks.
Arne Kahlke Is The New CEO Of Parship
PRESS RELEASE – June 6 – Arne Kahlke is returning to Parship and with Henning Rönneberg will form the new dual leadership of Parship. In 2004 Kahlke founded EliteMedianet, the parent company of ElitePartner.de. He led the company until 2010. He was working for Parship from 2002 to 2004 as the Chief of Marketing and Sales. Kahlke will take care of the marketing activities and business in Germany. Rönneberg will focus on the international activities.
WhiteLabelDating.com Partners With Established Media Brands
PRESS RELEASE – June 6 – WhiteLabelDating.com signed up new media including The London Evening Standard, UTV Media and Take a Break to its platform. The Evening Standard launched their new dating brand ‘ES Dating’ using the WhiteLabelDating.com platform. UTV Media will be rolling out dating sites for a selection of key radio brands including Juice FM, The Pulse, Peak FM and The Wave. Take a Break, part of H Bauer, will be launching dating site ‘Take a Break’s Perfect Match’ in June.
CrowdFlower’s New Photo Moderation
EON BUSINESSWIRE – June 6 – CrowdFlower, the crowdsourcing service, released its new image moderation API that enables social media sites to screen images generated from mobile devices. The app is called Real Time Foto Moderator (RTFM). Customers simply send the URL of an image via an HTTP request to the RTFM API. RTFM then sends images to CrowdFlower’s contributors. Moderators screen images at scale, and within just a few minutes of posting an image, RTFM sends the results based on the input of multiple moderators.
See full article at EON Businesswire
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WhosHere Arrives On Android
MARKETWIRE – June 6 – WhosHere can now be downloaded from the Amazon Appstore for Android and Google Play. WhosHere connects users with similar interests and within close proximity of each other.
The full article was originally published at Marketwire, but is no longer available.
iDate Mobile To Be Held On June 20-22 In Beverly Hills
WEBWIRE – June 5 – The iDate in LA will cover mobile dating, mobile marketing, social discovery and mobile development. Speakers at the event include: Grindr, Leadsmob, Match, Yoke, Dating Factory, Meexo, CCBill, PayOne, text2Pay, Jumptap, Courtland Brooks, TheComplete.me, and others.