http://dating.corante.com/ Online Dating Industry News en-us dave@digicraft.com 2006-12-04T20:54:50-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/12/04/remove_traces_of_holiday_cheer_with_photochop.php LookBetterOnline is good for new (albeit expensive) personal ad photos, although there are several alternatives. Photochop is a San Francisco company, founded last year, that will help you remove your personal shortcomings during this vanity-filled season of holiday photo-taking... 70076@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-12-04T20:54:50-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/09/27/relationships_the_undateables.php Ellen Gamerman at the WSJ wrote an article about rating, reputation (reg req'd) and online dating. More and more dating sites are integrating reputation and testimonial features, including Engage.com (one-time client), Consumating and JDate. The result is an emerging... 66241@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-09-27T12:07:04-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/09/26/weemee_takes_aim.php Pete over at Mashable notes that WeeWorld just launched WeeMee avatars, and announced a partnership with AOL. 10 million WeeMees have been created in more than 39 countries, allowing users to post a personalized avatar on blogs, social networks,... 66167@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-09-26T11:06:49-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/09/15/opinity_announces_openid_cardspace_integration.php Identity services provider Opinity (a client), has announced that you can now use both OpenID and Microsoft's CardSpace at Opinity. This means that if you have established an OpenID--for instance, through Verisign PIP or LiveJournal--you can use that OpenID... 65538@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-09-15T12:21:03-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/05/30/_layers_of_identity_podcast.php Aldo Castañeda posted our podcast discussing the marketing implications and emerging surfaces of identity and attention systems. The talk primarily covers the layers of the identity stack, with particular focus on data providers and aggregators leading up to my... 58999@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-05-30T19:18:18-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/04/27/opinity_and_rapleaf_partner.php Now this is more like it. A mere two days after I discovered Rapleaf, Opinity announces they will be partners. Opinity and RapLeaf have entered into an agreement to integrate their services so that they can: • Pursue and... 56701@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-04-27T15:03:50-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/04/24/userplane_to_federate_15_million_user_ids.php I found this photo of Mike Jones on Esther Dyson's Flickr account via Marc Canter. (How come Flickr doesn't accept trackbacks and this triple-threat deep linking stuff is exhausting, where is the plug-in to track the links back themselves... 56399@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-04-24T18:14:37-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/04/21/managing_online_identities_with_claimid.php Badges, shields, icons and chicklets are becoming more pervasive on blogs and discussion forums as companies offer tracking, verification and identity management services. I recently came across some new entrants, ClaimID and MicroID. ClaimID will allow users to track,... 56154@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-04-21T11:33:52-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/who_will_be_the_myspace_alisters.php Jeremy Wright says Myspace scares the hell out of him. He lays down a few choice comparisons and points I want to riff on. According to Wright, by the end of the year, MySpace will account for roughly 10%... 52422@http://dating.corante.com/ Research 2006-02-23T10:32:54-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/myspace_illicit_image_hunters.php MySpace employs a staff of about 12 who do nothing but look at all 1.5 million images uploaded each day for inappropriate photos, including pornography. Despite their efforts, some illicit images still get through.'... 52407@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2006-02-15T09:34:12-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2005/10/18/datingheadshots_and_safedate_form_strategic_alliance.php After SafeDate made a big PR splash and threw a great party in Miami Beach this year at iDate, the company went way under the radar and a few executives left the company. SafeDate is back, having recently struck... 52260@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2005-10-18T17:40:52-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2005/10/05/techcrunch_reviews_ikarma.php Techcrunch has a good review of iKarma. I've been on the site for a while now and agree with most of what they said, both the good and bad. Tagging can wait, it's usefulness to average customer is lost.... 52240@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2005-10-05T10:46:10-05:00 http://dating.corante.com/archives/2005/08/31/open_identity_standards.php Social Software post about Flickr and Yahoo supporting open identity standards. My old roomate use to work for Sherry Turkle, who nails why Flickr users are upset at being lumped in with Yahoo members. Part of the Flickr draw... 52191@http://dating.corante.com/ Identity 2005-08-31T07:38:39-05:00