It’s only a matter of time before dating sites begin to mine social media and the social graph at Facebook and Twitter for people’s tastes and preferences. Infochimps has done the heavy lifting and offers services ranging from the free “Baboon” tier with a limit of 100,000 API calls per month to the “Golden Ape” tier that costs $4000 per month with a limit of 15 million monthly API calls. The datasets upon which these calls are based are updated monthly, although Infochimps indicates they will soon update these weekly.
In an interview with ReadWriteWeb in April, Infochimps co-founder Flip Kromer said that he hoped Infochimps can demonstrate the benefits of building “awesome stuff,” including apps and analytics that can “democratize access” to information about users’ interests and behaviors. With the release of the API, it looks as though Infochimps has made a move to do just that.
Via ReadWriteWeb.
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Mining information about users’ interests and tastes to make matchmaking recommendations is bound to get big and soon enough there will be players specializing in this. Dating sites could definitely use this. I am the founder of coupl.in which matches users based on common interests and potential unexplored interests and I could have used this about a year back ;) (India focused)
Things are getting better with Facebook lifting the 24 hr limit on user data and now this. Why dating and matrimonial sites still ask people to fill up tons of forms is beyond me.Hopefully such services will make sure users don’t have to re-enter data again.