TECH CRUNCH - Apr 28 - Tinder Social lets friends swipe and match with other groups they want to meet. Unfortunately, Tinder users who are being opted into this feature by default are surprised to find that it automatically displays which of their Facebook friends are also using Tinder. Tinder Social presents a list of all users' Facebook friends and lets them view their dating profiles from a very accessible interface. But Tinder is still experimenting with Tinder Social, and is only testing it with a small group of users in Australia.
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Tinder's new Group Dating Feature Shows All Friends Using The App
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Upcoming Stellar Conferences: Grow.co Mobile Apps Unlocked & iDate
OPW - Apr 28 - I'm headed to Grow.co's Mobile Apps Unlocked next week May 4-5. Looks like a stellar line up, including speakers from Tinder, Match, Zynga, Google and Fiksu. It's focused on mobile marketing and analytics. The Mobile Dating Conference is June 9-10 and is the must-attend event of the season IMHO. See you at one or both of these events perhaps.
Post by Mark Brooks @ Courtland Brooks.
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Finding Friends Digitally Is Still Hard
FAST COMPANY - Apr 27 - Online dating is a billion-dollar industry, but swiping for new friends is still a little awkward for users and investors. There's simply a social stigma attached to it, says Nermin Jasani, the founder of the women-only friend-finding site Lumelle. The service did bring people together but the founder found it hard to get enough participation to interest potential investors. Another now-shuttered service, called "Let's At," which let users propose activities that other people could join, faced similar issues, says founder Greg Buckner. "We didn't end up getting as much traction as we hoped."
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eReveal Matches People Based On Their Selfies
MARKETWIRED - Apr 27 - eReveal is a new free dating app that requires only a "selfie" to match someone with compatible dating partners. Users download eReveal and register using Facebook. Once logged in, they are asked to take a selfie, which starts the eReveal matchmaking process. eReveal's Face Pattern Analysis engine takes a few seconds to determine key personality traits, and then suggests matches (green - very compatible, yellow - average and red - not so much).
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Mobile Dating Conference (iDate) - June 8-10 In LA
OPW - Apr 28 - There are only 5 weeks left before the next Internet dating conference (iDate). The next iDate will be focusing on mobile, and is taking place on June 8-10 in Los Angeles. The agenda will be finalized in the next days but is looking very good. Speakers include Geoff Cook, CEO of Meetme; James Infusino from Zoosk; John Volturo, CMO of Spark Networks; Amanda Bradford, CEO of The League; Jeremy Foreshew from Grindr and others. There will also be a special pre-conference session - Mobile strategy for dating startups by Steve Dean (Courtland Brooks).
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Tinder's Competition In India
EXCHANGE FOR MEDIA - Apr 26 - Taru Kapoor is focusing on establishing Tinder in India. The 97% growth of its active user base in India over three months and 400% increase of app downloads over the last year explains Tinder's strategy to open its first international office in Delhi. Close behind is TrulyMadly; launched in 2014 whose market share is 2.5%. Another homegrown app built in 2014, Woo has 2.5M users. QuackQuack has 1.3M users. Ravi Mittal, founder, QuackQuack says, "Our focus has been more on the casual side of dating." TrulyMadly only considers Tinder as its main competition. Woo's marketing strategy focuses on social media. For QuackQuack, simple banner ads have been effective for driving good ROI till date. TrulyMadly, Woo and Tinder have also invested in events.
by Madhuwanti Saha
See full article at Exchange For Media
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Kamcord Raises $10M And Wants To Livestream Tinder Sessions
VENTUREBEAT - Apr 26 - Kamcord, a video network that enables people to broadcast their gaming action from their tablets and smartphones, has raised $10M in its latest funding round led by Time Warner. This brings its total funding to ~$37M. With Kamcord, people can livestream themselves using apps like Tinder or Instagram.
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Tinder Wants To Be More Serious, Removes 'Keep Playing' Button
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - Apr 27 - In the past, when users got a match, they were presented with two buttons - 'Send Message' or 'Keep Playing'. The 'Send Message' button is still there, but the one below now reads 'Keep Swiping' - all mention of Tinder being some kind of game appears to have been removed.
by Doug Bolton
See full article at Independent.co.uk
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The Science Behind Online Dating Profiles
BBC.COM - Apr 26 - A scientist at Queen Mary University, Prof Khalid Khan, has reviewed dozens of scientific research papers on attraction and online dating. His research made clear that some profiles work better than others. He said people should spend 70% of the space writing about themselves and 30% about what they're looking for. Women are more attracted to men who demonstrate courage, bravery and a willingness to take risks. Usernames that starts with a letter higher in the alphabet do better. According to an algorithm devised by mathematicians, the chance of picking the best date is highest if user rejects the first 37%. He/she should then choose the next person that's better than all the previous ones.
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Tinder Hires Former Spotify Executive To Lead International Expansion
MUMBRELLA - Apr 27 - Sriram Krishnan takes on a brief to build the brand in new markets, including Asia. Krishnan led the expansion of Spotify in Asia Pacific in 2014, establishing the brand in countries including Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
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Beautiful People Dating Site Data Sold
BBC NEWS - Apr 26 - The details of ~9M members including their weight, height, job, and phone numbers were discovered unencrypted online in Dec 2015. They have now been sold on the black market. Beautiful People originally claimed the content was from a test server but Mr Vickery said the data itself was still genuine.
by Zoe Kleinman
See full article at BBC News
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Tuesdays At 2PM - The Busiest Time, Says eHarmony
LIFEHACKER.CO.UK - Apr 26 - The best time to find love online is on Tuesdays at 2pm, according to the latest eHarmony research. The eHarmony team conducted a study of 800K log-ins to identify the peak hours throughout the week for finding and arranging a date. They discovered ten big online dating spikes and nine of them happen on a Monday and Tuesday around lunch time.
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Tinder Launches Group Dating In Australia
MASHABLE - Apr 27 - Tinder has just launched Tinder Social, a new function that allows users to create a group on the platform, which can then match with other groups looking for a night out. Tinder Social is currently being tested with a small group in Australia.
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BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Private Data Of Its 1.1M Users
FORBES - Apr 25 - Sexual preference, relationship status, income, address - these are some of the details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before they are judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in. Thanks to the leak, all of this info is now public. The leak also included 15M private messages between users. The data is now being sold by traders.
by Thomas Fox-Brewster
See full article at Forbes
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Bumble Update: Men Have To Reply To Women Within 24 hours
MASHABLE - Apr 25 - Dating app Bumble will require male users to reply to women's messages within 24 hours, or they lose the match. Bumble launched in 2014. Once a couple matches (through a swipe function) only women can initiate the conversation, and they have to message within 24 hours or lose the match. At that point, men are permitted to message back. Up until now, men had "forever" to do so. Now they're beholden to the same time window as women are.
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