Skycandy is a Skype based dating service. Is this going to kill speeddate.com?
Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of Location-Based Services. I hope dating sites take advantage of this, great way to promote date-friends businesses and locations.
Dating Ad Nework Interview with World Dating Partners.
Fubar is a Myspace-like online bar/hangout.
Vindicia Bags Another $7.5 Million In Funding. Vindicia is a subscription billing platform featuring an integrated fraud/chargeback management system. The fourth round of funding brings the total amount of financing invested in the company to $21 million. I’ve been talking with Steve Klebe lately, very interesting service they offer. Here’s Steve’s blog. Here’s a site I just came across, Payments News.
New York Times has several dating-related articles. They are taking a page from the Vows section and writing stories about how people meet online. His 50 First Dates, Blinded by Science in the Online Dating Game. Looks like academia is finally starting to take dating sites to task for their compatibility matching systems.
Pattie Maes is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab. She is responsible for Firefly and many other preference-based search systems. In a recent Mass Hight Tech she states: We try to empower people to express themselves better, to learn more efficiently and to related to other better. This applies to online dating sites as well. So does this – UX Is The Beating Heart Of Tech.
Study finds online daters choose wrong people due to ‘cognitive overload’.
