Patrick Marshall of Thomas Technologies was nice enough to send in his conference notes from iDate in Prague last week.

European iDate’s are generally smaller than Miami but with almost 70 participants from dating and social networking sites, payment processors, marketing/ad firms, affiliate managers, and directory sites Prague didn’t disappoint.

Industry players included Parship, IWantU, MegaFriends, Motesplatsen, Flirt, DatingAgency, SpeedDater Ltd., Rabbit Rabbit Ltd., Dating.dk, iLove GmbH, and few others. Vendors included Userplane, Gateway, Sex Search, Mobestar, 2000 Search, and everyone’s favorite personality assessment provider - Thomas Technologies.

In spite of a few no shows (Meetic, Yonja, 24/7 Real Media) it was a good program. Christian Vollmann did a great job of outlining the German market and shed some light on the particular issues related to payment processing. The Final Panel featured James Hamlin (Match.com), Dr. Arndt Roller (Parship.de), Frederick Bien (Flirt.com), Jan Becker (Friend Scout 24), and Morton Wagner (Dating.dk). As usual Mark Lesnick jumped in with a few stir-the-pot questions.

Cudos to Mark and the iDate team for organizing a first class cocktail reception at the Moevenpick’s Tower Lounge on the first night and a more intimate gathering at his place on the second night (with his Czech pals).

Check out the photos.

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