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Blog Maintenance and Improvements

Working on rearranging sidebar links to bring the popular stuff to the top and consolidating categories this afternoon. So far I’ve removed 25 categories, hopefully this will make finding what you’re looking for easier. I tend to use the Search box when...

Online Personals Watch Comes to Boston

Fellow social networking/dating blogger and consultant Mark Brooks and I got together last weekend for a long breakfast in Boston’s Seaport District. My meetings with Mark are always informative and entertaining. Every time you think you know everything,...

Paid Dating Sites Doing Well

Listening to Markus at Plenty Of Fish spread his doom and gloom message about the paid dating market is depressing. Time to change the channel for a moment. Spark Networks and Match are doing quite well. Go browse the financials, it’s all there. If  you ignore...

Mini-Review: FaceBook Dating Applications

I signed up for several Facebook dating applications almost two months ago. Let me start by saying that the status of Facebook dating applications is in general, a mess. 150 applications in the category, with the most popular being crush, hotornot, astrology, purity...

Japan’s Host Bars

Only in Japan would you find something like male host-club workers, who are paid up to $500 by women who want to be chatted up my a charismatic young man over a bottle of  champagne.  The Great Happiness Space – Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (2006) is a...