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The Dewy Color System came up when I was looking into IntroAnalytics and VisualDNA. Speaking of compatibility, Fernando Ardenghi has finally started a blog where he will be discussing his views about online dating compatibility and matching systems. If you’ve read his hundreds of comments here over the years, you already know what the blog [...]
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Someone just turned me on to the Lady Gaga Telephone video featuring Beyonce. A certain dating site makes an appearance at 4:27. Warning, this is one weird and sexy video.
Great post from Tony Karrer, the initial acting CTO for eHarmony.
Match continues to say that they have 15 million profiles. I wish they would refer [...]
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The HowAboutWe.Com Date Contest: Here’s the deal. Propose your best NYC date idea as a post on our Facebook Fan Page. The people (one guy, one gal) whose dates gain the most “Likes” win! And HowAboutWe.Com will pay for the winners to go on their dates for up to $150! (See details below about how [...]
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Katy says: I’m a Columbia News Service reporter interested in speaking with couples who have met offline, who have later joined dating sites to see if they would be matched up or to test the site’s claims. I’m also interested in speaking with people who won’t join established dating sites like eHarmony and Match.com, but [...]
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Just crossed the 3,000 post mark here.
I don’t know if it’s my new and improved profile and photos or the stacks of Benjamins I slipped to key Match, OKCupid and PlentyofFish executives while we were all in Miami, but my inboxes are filling up like crazy in the run-up to Valentines Day. I like to [...]
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Geek Squad is looking to help 6 long distance couples this Valentine’s Day. The Agents will be hosting a dinner for LA-NYC based couples at BLT Steak on Friday February 12th. Although the couples will be thousands of miles apart, they will have the dinner via Skype. Additionally, each couple will receive a netbook and [...]
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Match.com UK, which is now part of Meetic, has launched MatchAffinity which is not to be confused with Match UK or dating.uk.msn.com which is powered by Match. Markus quotes:
MatchAffinity helps people to find their partner through some more scientific means. Each user takes a simple psychometric style test (takes about 10 minutes) and will [...]
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This one is for reader Fernando. An oldie but a good one making the rounds again. Warwick University’s Peter Backus applies the Drake equation to discover why, exactly, he can’t find a girlfriend:
So, what this means is that there are 10,510 people in the UK that satisfy these most basic criteria for being my girlfriend. [...]
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Friendfinder IPO Cut in Half: Friendfinder Networks ongoing quest to IPO took another hit this week. The company has revised their S-1 to reflect a a halving of expected fundraising, from $460 Million to about $220 Million. Via paidContent.
City dating site Lovestruck, which matches single professionals to others who work close by for coffee, [...]
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