Best online dating contest ever? The Mate1 Check Please! Contest with Pauly Shore. Mate1 and Pauly are looking for the Most Awkward Date of All Time in return for $5,000 and a trip to vegas. Reminds me of a super-kooky BadOnlineDates.
An analysis of Patti’s Stanger’s Millionaire Matchmaker: Do Millionaire’s Get their $’s Worth with Patti Stanger?
When the Software Is the Sportswriter: VisualDNA has a very cool automated profile writer based on your selection of images depicting your tastes, preferences and personality. This is taking that to the next level.
Can Hunch Save Online Dating?
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Visa to Use Your Phone’s Location to Prevent Credit Card Fraud. Iovation, are you reading this?
Dating sites, this guy knows more about SEO than just about anyone on the planet. enjoyed his take on The Algorithm + the Crowd are Not Enough.
In the last decade, the online world has been ruled by two, twin forces: The Crowd and The Algorithm. The collective “users” of the Internet (The Crowd) create, click, and rate, while mathematical equations add scalability and findability to these overwhelming quantities of dMate1.com Check Please! Contest with Pauly Shoreata (The Algorithm). Like the moon over the ocean, the pull of these two forces help create the tides of popularity (and obscurity) on the Internet.
Except for a few of the top 10 properties, dating sites don’t do much in the way of algorithmic matching besides Age/Sex/Location. When are dating sites going to do a better job curating their members?
