OKCupid Asking About Background Checks: By asking members questions about background checks, OkCupid can effectively poll people without seeming too much like an intrusive survey. Interestingly enough, this question appeared right after I was asked how freaky I am.
Dating Site Dominator is a subscription-site dating site aggregator that filters through top personals & dating websites like Match, PlentyOfFish, and OKCupid. Looks like $19.95 a month and its Windows-only download. Can’t imagine anyone would let them do this, we’ll see.
In honor of National Singles Week (Sept 18 to 24) Michelle Cove of Seeking Happily Every After is making the first 20 minutes of their feature-length documentary Seeking Happily Ever After (distributed by Lionsgate) available for FREE. The way to access it will be to go to the “Free on iTunes” section on iTunes only during National Singles Week. As if you needed further enticement, I’m in the documentary going on a recorded date.
Capples, Apps for Couples: Ofir from Israel has invented the first ever relationship status for iPhone which helps couples show each other how they feel in the beginning of their relationship.
The first Capple is called “Just Us”. Basically, when you show your friend at the bar how hot your girlfriend is, she gets a message saying “Your bf is thinking about you.” Check out Capple Factory to see the latest assortment of Capples.
Brandon Wade owns SeekingArrangement, SeekingMillionaire and WhatsYourPrice. Thats quite a collection of money-focused daters. Check this out, single college students registering on WhatsYourPrice as Attractive members using their dot-EDU email address will automatically receive a free upgrade and become certified as an Attractive College Co-Ed (Details). Brandon even came up with Labor Day Dating Tips for Unemployed Singles.
Chinese dating site Jiayuan is growing quickly, with second-quarter revenue more than doubling from a year earlier to $12.9 million and earnings growing at a similar pace. Jiayuan’s shares were up 21% Friday from when they listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market on May 11. More at the WSJ.
Badoo is up to 120 million members. It is the latest site, besides OkCupid (pictured) to take inspiration from HowAboutWe.
Understatement of the week: “However some users have reported copping sex-related spam through the service as the company’s 200 moderators fail to keep up with the growing hoard of users.”
Humorous Comcast “Dating On Demand” videos.
While poking around on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (crowdsourced small tasks) and came across many requests for profiles reviews. Prices ranged from .05-.20 cents per profile.
People have all sorts of clever ways to propose: StumbleUpon Helps Coordinate a Marriage Proposal.
