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It’s been a busy week: tax season upon us, the girlfriend back from a month in Australia and several projects all coming due at the same time, with new ones starting up. Regular posting will resume next week.

In the meantime, some links:

New York Times on online and speed dating. Interesting reports of online dating behaviror.

Suit against DontDateHimGirl.com is thrown out. Tasha Cunningham’s rate-a-date site, now with more than 27,000 profiles, lives to see another day.

I’ve been working on the next version of How to Build a Dating Site. Here are some of the links I’ve been reading in preparation for writing the story.
The Infrastructureless Software Company
Free is a tactic, not a business model.
Amazon S3
AWS and your data center
Monster Muck Mashup – Mass Video Conversion Using AWS
Digg’s Senior System Admin Ron Gorodetzky on How to Handle Network Growing Pains
Elgg social networking platform.
More women on nice dating sites.
KickApps
Consumating Goes Open Source