Instead of posting link-dumps to the blog every few days, notable nuggets of news will be published to @datinginsider. Fear not the Twitter-averse, those tweets will show up in the sidebar of Online Dating Insider as well. You can scroll back through the most recent 15 posts and easily click through to the full tweets on Twitter. If you are involved in the online dating industry in any way, subscribe to @datinginsider and I’ll follow you and if I think you make the cut, I’ll add y... Read Full Story

Slashdot article New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests. I love /., as it’s called, check out these comments: Yeah… Submit your DNA profile to a for-profit corporation that lets you do things with it through a web interface. Your info will never be hacked. Your info will never be sold. Your info will never be given to government agencies. Trust us. I didn’t RTFA, because I can proudly say that I was involved in the group that produced MHC mediated sexual selection ... Read Full Story

This was a big week for (re)connecting with people, including Hollywood types wanting to partner with dating sites, a dating startup making some serious cash you’ve never heard of, The New York Times, TheDatingLab, Trilibis, DatingHeadshots, Milabra, Intelius (Korbster!), working on a few things with DatingDNA, a few investors, Moonit, and a bunch of people I can’t mention publicly. On my mind: Sam at BlackBox Republic, Meetmoi, viximo and Thread (which is copying HotorNot/Zoosk/A... Read Full Story

uSocial.net — the company who recently began selling followers on Twitter — has just launched a new suite of services for Facebook, enabling people to purchase friends and fans depending on their needs. But why would someone want to buy their friends on Facebook? Well according to company CEO Leon Hill, that’s a very easy question to answer. “Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool as anyone with a large number of targeted friends or fans can attest to.” Said Hill. “The ... Read Full Story

Old news but thought I would re-iterate here. For those of you who haven’t tried a mobile dating application, I was playing around with the Match.com iPhone application and I found it to be quite slick. Fingers crossed it fares better than the various ill-fated Facebook applications Match mucked around with. The new Match.com application for iPhone and iPod touch provides members with the ability to easily communicate with the more than 15 million Match.com members wherever they go. M... Read Full Story

A new Facebook dating application has launched called SecondLove (link to Fan page). The folks at SecondLove were nice enough to describe the application and compare it with Zoosk and Thread. According to our application description: “SecondLove connects you with singles from across the world. It gives you excellent quality free online dating experience on Facebook.” We make it simple and easy for millions of singles to find love on Facebook. The process is quite straight forward:... Read Full Story

I rarely visit the Twitter website directly, the majority of my interaction is via Tweetdeck or various clients on my iPhone. Tweetdeck is fantastic, it even lets me view and post to various Facebook features like activity streams and photos and even Myspace. Tweetdeck may very well be the first mainstream desktop client we all use to manage our social lives. Which gets me thinking about subscribing to multiple dating sites and having a Tweetdeck-like app to deal with all of the email, notes ... Read Full Story

This was a big week for social gaming and mobile billing companies. Back in June at iDate LA, several people brought the social gaming and mobile billing markets. It looks like the sector is about to get cleaned up, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues” Continued Action Against Deceptive Ads Are social gaming offers scamming users? A detailed analysis of Techcrunch’s Scamville article. Facebook ad API looks interesting. Facebook Facial-Recognitio... Read Full Story

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Fling.com has gone mobile. Fling.com’s mobile site is now available and the conversions have been amazing. If you have a smart phone, go to fling.com on your phone or check it out here. The payout on Fling Mobile sales are $25pps. Get your link code and redirect script here! The redirect script detects if a mobile browser is trying to access your site and redirects them to Fling Mobile with your affiliate ID. I wonder what the perversion, I mean conversion rates will be? © 2009... Read Full Story