sugar mommy Seen that? - Spark Networks Q4& 2004 Annual Report; Files for IPO Dating Men in the US In Case You Missed It: ManCrunch and the Superbowl Virtual Dating? It's a Growing Trend... Dating in the United States has Changed Seen that? - Youggle.com Launches eHarmony Settles, Will Link Sites Maximazing Your Profile Picture The Nosy Girlfriend or Boyfriend App for Your iPhone Seen that? - Friendster, Love and Money So, What's a Date? Seen that? - Arranged Marriages in the Modern Indian Community Study Profiles Mobile Dating Considering Marriage? Think About These Things... Are You Being Deceived Online? Dating Via Twitter Seen that? - The $ingle Dollar Industry; $1.6 Trillion Strong Seen that? - The (Online) Dating Matrix Online Dating or a Professional Matchmaker? Some Pros and Cons Seen that? - Dating Site Builders Seen that? - Online social networking BrainiacDating.com - Online Dating for Smart People Down to Earth Becomes Stir.com Automated Dating Profiles? Try Gelato Coming Soon: A Culture of Exhibitionism? Seen that? - Speed Dating: The Movie Is She a Gold Digger? Just Don't Wife Her... Reality Check? How About a Background Check on Your Date?
Spark Networks Q4 & 2004 Annual Report; Files for IPO The Dating Weblog OPW -- Mar 10 -- Q4 revenue $17.1 million (+46%). 2004 revenue $65.1 million (+76%) with net loss of $11.6 million. 2003 net loss was $10.9 million. JDate ...
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Dating Men in the US doesn't have to be complicated. At least, I don't think it has to be. But the hype and the buzz surrounding the topic seems to be never ending. And I don't know how to get around the constant sense of pressure and stress that seems to go along with any kind of dating these days.
I have a friend, a female, who dates using online services. I don't think she's into the mobile dating thing yet. But ...
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The gay dating site ManCrunch wanted to run an ad during the Superbowl. Since it cost, like, a gajillion dollars to run a Superbowl ad, I guess you can infer that Mancrunch must be making enough money to pay its bills. Or not: BNET posted an article that implies that the ad was rejected (in part at least) because CBS wasn't sure they'd get paid for running it.
Maybe I just don't watch enough TV (or the right channel), but I don't think I've ...
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I haven't really paid much attention to the concept before, but as the nature of dating changes under the pressure of technology in society, virtual dating seems to be gaining more of a foothold.
Virtual dating caught my attention when I found out that the dating site Weopia has begun offering virtual dating as an intermediate step between finding someone on the site and going out on a flesh-and-blood date.What makes Weopia different from emailing or IMing before a first date is how it ...
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You can say the way of Dating in the United States has changed since I was a boy. Of course, when I was a boy, Jimmy Carter was President. But change is picking up speed...
High school is still high school. But once you leave high school and enter the grown up world, the way you meet potential dating partners has changed. A lot.
It's clear that the standard approach to dating has become the dating website. You put up your ...
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Youggle.com Launches The Dating Weblog PRWEB -- Mar 29 -- Youggle.comhas launched; includes a virtual speaking host which guides users though the total sign up stage. Free 1 month introductory full membership trial period. PRESS RELEASE @ PR WEB Mark Brooks: ...
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A number of sources (Mashable, Reuters, The San Francisco Chronicle) are reporting that eHarmony has settled (yet again) in a California lawsuit claiming anti-Gay descrimination at its dating website.
eHarmony first settled a class action lawsuit on the Gay issue in California in 2008 by agreeing to run a dating website for Gays. It called the site Compatable Partners. But the site was never acknowledged at or linked to from the heterosexual eHarmony site. And bisexuals had to pay subscriber fees ...
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It seems like half the blogosphere has commented on this study by OkCupid on what makes a good profile picture. But I guess I'll point it out anyway, just in case you've been living in a cave for the last few days...
OkCupid is a site run by a bunch of Ivy League geeks who like to crunch numbers and mine data. They look at profiel success and then analyze the profile picture. Was it taken indoors or outdoors? Does it make eye ...
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This seems a little to covert for me, like I'm dating a spy or something. But I guess in the early stages of a relationship with someone you don't know too well, maybe it's not too out in left field.
It's called iTrust.Basically iTrust uses an image of your iPhone homescreen to fool other people into interacting with the device. It will then record where people touch on the image so you can see any attempts.The app is 99 cents.
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Friendster, Love and Money The Dating Weblog NY TIMES -- Jan 24 -- Fifteen months ago, Friendsterenjoyed the kind of enviable status that Silicon Valley start-ups dream of: A-List investors and millions of users. The company endured three chief execs during ...
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I came across an old but interesting piece by Bonny Albo that asks the simple question, What is a date?A large number of the emails I receive from readers ask me to define what a "date" is. If the guy at work asked me to coffee, is it a date? We hang out almost every day, but haven't kissed yet - are we dating?Whether you're raising teenagers or trying to get back into the social scene yourself as a middle aged adult, it's ...
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Arranged Marriages in the Modern Indian Community The Dating Weblog THE STAR (MALAYSIA) -- Mar 26 -- With the Advent of internet dating you would think that arranged marriages among the Indian community are a thing of the past. Not so. ...
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Does dating from a iPhone or Blackberry change people? Skout (a geographically aware mobile dating service) surveyed some of its customers recently and published its findings. TechCrunch has a story on the survey.Skout, a social dating service with a strong mobile component, decided to conduct a study to see how hesitant people are to make the move from mobile messaging to in-person meetups.
The company surveyed 1000 of its users 20-30 years old, with an even gender split.Over half of the ...
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Suite101's dating site published a useful piece early this month on things to consider before you decide to marry someone.
The piece focuses on how healthy your relationship with your prospective spouse is likely to be. To be more blunt, author Tara Lynne Brown says that one in 25 Americans is a sociopath (an individual without a conscience), and she says that you probably don't want to marry one.
I'm not sure I believe the percentage of sociopaths is society ...
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Dr. Jeffrey T. Hancock of Cornell University's department of communication and faculty of information science was interview recently by the National Science Foundation. The topic? Deception on internet dating and social networking sites.
Would you believe it? People on dating sites and social networking sites aren't always completely honest about who they are. Hancock discusses a variety of topics related to deception online. Some of my favorite topics included using out of date (10-year-old) photos and fudging on personal details (like weight and height). ...
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You knew it was coming. Well, it's here: a Twitter-based dating application. Yes, Luvtweets is here.
Online Dating Insider says that Luvtweets addresses some of the most common complaints from online daters.The new service allows those who are looking for love to define themselves in their own terms; using a user defined tagging system rather than the traditional pre-defined criteria of dating sites. Luvtweets has also listened to consumers concern over lack of response when using online dating sites, and has introduced a Responsive ...
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The $ingle Dollar Industry; $1.6 Trillion Strong at The Dating Weblog ONE2ONEMAG -- Mar 26 -- Growth in non-traditional-family households will continue to drive purchasing decisions -- this is not a passing phase; it is a trend that will continue for the next ...
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The (Online) Dating Matrix at The Dating Weblog So, what is...the Matrix? The new trend in online dating is social networking. From the closed circle of orkut, to the ever-growing tribe, people are moving their offline networks to the web. Even match.com is ...
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I came across an article recently at Suite 101 that compared the pros and cons of online dating services to the pros and cons of a professional matchmaker's services. And (like most things in life) it kind of depends on who you are.
One of the benefits of a matchmaker (according to the piece) is that a professional matchmaker can specialize in a religion or ethnic group. Sure, there are niche dating sites too. But if you live in a major urban center you can ...
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Dating Site Builders at The Dating Weblog A good sign of worldwide acknowledgement of a certain type of business' success is when others try to sell it as a standard business opportunity. That happened even to dating sites. There are lots of businesses ...
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Online social networking at The Dating Weblog One of the best paths one should follow is socializing. Meet as many people as you can, make yourself pleasurable.Networking is probably a word you hear a lot while on the internet. No matter what you ...
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BrainiacDating.com is a new niche online dating site for smart singles.
The site is supposed to be for people who have "an open mind and a curiosity about the world." Being a brainiac isn't all that easy to define, after all. And, as the new site's press release points out, there are many different kinds of intelligence.Lawrence Chernin created the site in October of 2008 because he was he wanted a place for intelligent singles to be able to feel comfortable to meet online ...
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It hasn't been long (a few months) since Match.com started its free site - Down to Earth. Well, now Down to Earth has grown a new sister site: Stir.com. Stir.com focuses on nightlife and the social scene.
About.com Dating Guide Bonny Albo describes the new site's connection to the old one.Users who had previously registered with Down To Earth have automatically been moved to the new portal, although members who aren't interested in the lifestyle site can log in to either company and go to ...
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You knew someone would think of this eventually. Gelato has created a system where your profile information gets drawn automatically from a social networking page you already have. It can use information you already have at Facebook or Twitter. It can also draw from your Netflix account or from LastFM. Gelato is different. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Netflix and other social networks offer great windows into what we are about. Pulling information from these social networks and supplementing that with our own writing leads to richer, ...
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Mashable had an article the other day on a stange new site called I Just Made Love. The new website lets you tell the world a.) where you are b.) what exactly you did (100 character limit) and c.) what you thought about it.
Okay, I know this isn't dating, exactly. But it's an interesting commentary on who we're becoming, culturally. Do you really want to put this on the web?
Mashable suggested that the website was funny. The asked for comments, and they've gotten ...
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Speed Dating: The Movie at The Dating Weblog According to comingsoon.net, 20 Century Fox and director Luke Greenfield (who also directed "The Girl Next Door")are making a movie called "Speed Dating". (Scene from The Girl Next Door)"Based on a treatment by Beth Buck ...
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I talked recently about the new iPhone app (marketed mostly toward women) that lets do a background check on your date. Well guys, don't feel left out. There's also an a site that will help you decide if that bombshell batting her eyelashes at you is a gold digger: Just Don't Wife Her.
The Frisky took a look at the site.Just Don't Wife Her promises to help guys avoid the old ball and chain by exposing gold diggers and cheaters, one at a time.The site is ...
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Mashable ran a piece recently on a new iPhone app that could be every Casanova's nightmare. The app is call DateCheck.
DateCheck is free (for now, at least). To run the background check you need a name, a phone number and an email address on your date. Mashable describes it this way:DateCheck is practically omniscient, working not only to weed out the real creeps, but to alert you to deadbeats, and even help you find compatible matches. The search application filters social web and public ...
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