This is the news for February 23rd through March 2nd, 2010. Here is the news we covered:
PR WEB – Feb 24 – HerWay.com, a dating site that enables women to lead the matchmaking process, partners with Honesty Online. Honesty Online allows members of HerWay to share authenticated identity information with other members, making it safer to meet each other in person. HerWay’s innovative approach to dating, ensures women control the action by restricting men from searching, while allowing women to browse for men anonymously. When she's ready to connect, her profile is revealed only to the man of her choosing by initiating contact with him. This new concept provides women unprecedented privacy, discretion, and safety as they search for Mr. Right. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
PR NEWSWIRE — July 9 — Through this new partnership, DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online address two areas that have disappointed users — unreliable photos and inaccurate personal information. DatingHeadshots offers professional photo shoots that produce accurate, yet flattering photos to post on a dater's profile. Honesty Online provides a secure identity credential so daters can share verified personal information, such as a dater's age.
The full article was originally published at PR Newswire, but is no longer available.
OPW — Feb 10 — I am who I say I am, apparently. I took Honesty Online's verification, entering in my date of birth, name and address and answers to five questions.
Namely… Which vehicle did you PREVIOUSLY own? Which street address in 'Tampa' have you ever lived at? What month was 'Rachel Brooks' born in? Which street addresses in 'Sioux Falls' have you ever been associated with? Which street addresses in 'San Jose' have you ever lived at?
For $10 I was verified to not have a criminal record, or be a sex offender and to be who I say I am. The verification now sits on my Facebook profile. Will people use this? For dating, yes. They should at least. For social networking, I'm not sure. Your comments please. – Mark Brooks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Sep 7 — Prestige Speed Dating is a new service catering to "successful" singles, launched by dating firm FastLife.com and Honesty Online, an identity-verification service. FastLife says it has identified an increase in concern among its members about finances, as opposed to appearance and age. All Prestige members will meet minimum financial criteria. "Recessions cause people to alter their behaviors, and dating habits are no exception," says FastLife founder Justin Parfitt. FULL ARTICLE @ SEATTLE TIMES
PRESS RELEASE — May 1 — In a move to keep its site as honest as possible, myPartner.com is adding Honesty Online, which certifies profile information. The optional Honesty Online certification will verify name, address and date of birth before running a background investigation to check for any criminal records. Members of myPartner who opt for the certification will have the Honesty Online stamp of approval on their profile.
TIME — Jan 19 — HonestyOnline takes the lie out of online. "It's an extra layer of protection to determine if a guy is Jack the Ripper with three wives," said William Bollinger, EVP National Background Data, a database used by HonestyOnline. At iDate 2007, vendors demonstrate ways to meet, court, virtual date and even marry without ever leaving home. OmniDate can place you in a virtual restaurant with an animated date. On Mobilove, I scrolled through profiles and sent text messages. Already 500,000 Americans have posted their pictures and mini profiles on their cell phones, and users are growing by 20% every month, according to Mobilove VP Nils Knagenhjelm. Thanks to Vumber you can get many numbers with only one phone. If the person dialing one of the numbers turns out to be a less than desirable caller, poof! the number disappears with a few keystrokes. "You can vanish without a trace," said Geoff Schneider, Vumber's EVP. Plenty of Fish, with 400,000 hits a day, was created by Markus Frind, who still runs it out of his apartment. He figured out people essentially exaggerate on profile answers. He follows a more sensible creed: actions speak louder than words. For example, Susie says she wants a solid, stable man who earns $100,000-plus but keeps clicking on profiles of muscle-bound bad boys. Plenty of Fish makes sure she meets plenty of underemployed weightlifters, and some of the stable ones she ignores. "People don't even realize we do this. They just know they are getting results," said Frind. Chris Walker is experimenting with behavioral matchmaking. An early innovator, he started in the 1960s with punch card computer dating. After years of matching people, he now focuses on how people choose to spend their time. "The personal touch still blows away everything else out there," says Paul Falzone, CEO of The Right One and Together, an old-school matchmaking dating service.
The full article was originally published at Time, but is no longer available.
TIME — Jan 19 — HonestyOnline takes the lie out of online. "It's an extra layer of protection to determine if a guy is Jack the Ripper with three wives," said William Bollinger, EVP National Background Data, a database used by HonestyOnline. At iDate 2007, vendors demonstrate ways to meet, court, virtual date and even marry without ever leaving home. OmniDate can place you in a virtual restaurant with an animated date. On Mobilove, I scrolled through profiles and sent text messages. Already 500,000 Americans have posted their pictures and mini profiles on their cell phones, and users are growing by 20% every month, according to Mobilove VP Nils Knagenhjelm. Thanks to Vumber you can get many numbers with only one phone. If the person dialing one of the numbers turns out to be a less than desirable caller, poof! the number disappears with a few keystrokes. "You can vanish without a trace," said Geoff Schneider, Vumber's EVP. Plenty of Fish, with 400,000 hits a day, was created by Markus Frind, who still runs it out of his apartment. He figured out people essentially exaggerate on profile answers. He follows a more sensible creed: actions speak louder than words. For example, Susie says she wants a solid, stable man who earns $100,000-plus but keeps clicking on profiles of muscle-bound bad boys. Plenty of Fish makes sure she meets plenty of underemployed weightlifters, and some of the stable ones she ignores. "People don't even realize we do this. They just know they are getting results," said Frind. Chris Walker is experimenting with behavioral matchmaking. An early innovator, he started in the 1960s with punch card computer dating. After years of matching people, he now focuses on how people choose to spend their time. "The personal touch still blows away everything else out there," says Paul Falzone, CEO of The Right One and Together, an old-school matchmaking dating service.
The full article was originally published at Time, but is no longer available.