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McSweeney’s has a funny bit about creating your JDate profile.
Looking for:
- A long-term relationship. (But obviously marriage is in the foreseeable future, right? I mean, who are we kidding here? You’ve got to grow up and raise a family sometime.)
- Marriage and children. (Wait, didn’t we have this option already? Who gets married and doesn’t [...]

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Check out the error message I caught on Match. “This persons picture is too sexy to display.” I’ve never seen this before.

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After  week of political posturing, the New York Times says that Myspace will hand over to state attorneys general the names, addresses and online profiles of thousands of known convicted sex offenders who have opened up accounts on the service. More than 7,000 profiles of convicted sexual predators have been removed as well. States must [...]

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The first time I remember seeing Tickle was in a New York Times banner ad, where you has to pick the next object in a series of pictures. I clicked through and found I had picked the wrong one, and I was hooked. I spent a few weeks taking a lot of Tickle tests, which [...]

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Over the years, dating sites like Match.com have toyed with audio and video on profiles. Impediments included the need for special infrastructure, i.e special phone numbers to call into, or developing applications to record low quality video from sub megapixel webcams. And who do you know that had a webcam in 2003?
With ever-falling bandwidth prices, [...]

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Jessica Mintz at Businessweek shines a spotlight on online dating.
Yahoo, ranked the number one site, declined 14 percent in November compared with the previous year. Match.com had 12 percent fewer visitors in November, year-over-year.
Match made $80 million last quarter, mostly by raising fees.
Spark Networks will start using DoubleClick Inc.’s online advertising services to generate [...]

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SL Profiles enhanced profiles displayed within SecondLife’s client. The profiles are pulled from SLprofiles.com. The site accepts advertising, which is paid in Linden Dollars (in-world currency.) Profiles can have first life and Secondlife pics, places blogs, ratings and more. Very cool to be able to bring web content into the SL client. Word on the [...]

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Thomas Technologies recently wrote about profile writing tools. Evan Katz, Mark Brooks and myself were quoted.

Technorati Tags: profile+writing

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I recently posted about new profile features at Match. Here is a screenshot of the new profile highlight features.

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