I watched Hot Tub Time Machine with a few friends last night. Amusing, gross at times, and a great way to relive my 1980’s teen years. If you could go back in time and make it right with someone you used to date, who would it be and what would you change?
OKCupid should be proud that Facebook Currently Testing New “Questions” Product.
Always-on iPhone apps Great For Dating: Always-on iPhone apps raise new promises, perils for location privacy
It looks like OmniDate is powering Virtual Dating at Lavender Womyn Personals.
I’ve been in contact with people involved with Blue Mars, a SecondLife competitor that looks like it would be a great place to build virtual dating environments.
Siri’s IPhone App Puts A Personal Assistant In Your Pocket. Phenomenal app for finding what you need, when you need it, with your voice. I get excited imagining this for my virtual dating concierge.
Siri combines an impressive array of technologies and brings them together on the iPhone. These include natural language processing and semantic analysis. The underlying technology was developed at SRI with $200 million worth of Darpa grants. Siri was spun off to commercialize it and bring it to consumers. It’s last funding round was led by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing
(a fact never disclosed before), who also is an investor in Facebook.
In a way, Siri is the “mother of all mashups.” The iPhone app is a conversational interface with Siri’s servers on the Web, which tie into nearly 30 different APIs at launch, with more on the way. These include OpenTable, TaxiMagic, MovieTikets.com, Rotten Tomatoes, WeatherBug, Yahoo Local, Yahoo Boss, StubHub, Bing, Eventful Freebase, Citysearch, AllMenus.com, Gayot, and Wolfram Alpha.
Zoosk Matches Singles Across Social Networks. Reminds me of Spring Street Networks back in the day.
The Boston Marathon is Monday so its a three day weekend, have a great one.
