Where is Desktop Dating?

by David Evans on August 8, 2008 in Innovation

I am having a blast checking out all the new iPhone applications. SuperMonkeyBall is great, but Brightkite, Jott and Things are incredibly useful apps for me throughout the day.

I don’t spend time on phone-based dating because the applications aren’t very good and I am sure as hell not going to pay extra for mobile dating when I can click another button on my phone and access the site via a web browser.

Brightkite could be a great location-based dating application if they created a dating channel on the site. I often check into Brightkite when I am in downtown Boston to see who is nearby. All the dreams and hype from countless mobile social/dating startups, and Brightkite has just about everything we need already. Nokia recently bought Plazes, which I used back in the day before Brightkite. Nobody has ever heard of Plazes. I predict lots of you will at least have heard of BrightKite in the near future, especially you iPhone users.

This week, for the first time ever, I had a woman IM me on Match. A nice surprise but the chat client isn’t very good, we bailed out to Y! IM quickly. It doesn’t even have a link to the other person’s profile so you can check them out. But at least it works.

ReadWriteWeb talks about Facebook desktop applications, which got me thinking about desktop dating apps. Where are they? Adobe AIR is a great way to bring web apps to the desktop, so why aren’t dating sites taking advantage of the always-on nature of desktop apps. I know Userplane has a system tray applications to chat with others across multiple web properties, but what about a dating site creating a better, more connected experience with a desktop app?

Or maybe a third party desktop app that pulls in profiles from multiple sites. Desktop-based affiliate marketing, boo-ya.

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2 JOHN TEYE KORLEY June 6, 2009 at 12:54 pm: ANY

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3 mary armi fabian June 22, 2009 at 11:47 am: hi , i want to join ur online and chatting.

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4 mary armi fabian June 22, 2009 at 11:51 am: no comment

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7 Casualdate September 22, 2009 at 4:27 am: Sounds like great idea to me!

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8 charles bassey November 3, 2009 at 9:19 am: I want to be registard as a member.

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9 elifusal November 5, 2009 at 4:13 pm: well then…

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10 elifusal November 5, 2009 at 4:14 pm: well then well then

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11 Yau Smart December 1, 2009 at 11:21 am: I am interested and want to be registered as a member in this Organisation.

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12 Yau Smart December 1, 2009 at 11:22 am: thanks for your quick response.

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13 Johnny December 1, 2009 at 11:32 pm: This board looks like a dating board :)

Right, I haven’t seen one good mobile dating app yet. I think there’s still some limitations such as speed, space, and typing.

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14 Jennie Yang February 25, 2010 at 12:27 am: Please stop sending me any desktop Dating information or dating informations as I am
not interested in any dating. Thanks

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