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Speeddate.com Dating Formula PR

The folks at Formula PR have a good sense of humor. We are pleased to announce that SpeedDate.com, the world’s first online speed dating Web site, and Formula took their relationship to the next level and are officially together. For information on the world of...

SpeedDate: No Fake Profiles

Dan Abelon (sorry for the misspelling earlier) wrote in to provide some additional information: We absolutely do not set users up with fake people. People do not respond because they are either looking at another site in another tab, or have stepped away from the...

A Night of Speed Dating

I’ve been videoconferencing since 1994, in fact, the original Connectix Quick Cam right here, next to my original Apple Newton and a hard drive the size of an end table. For me, text chat in an instant message window is fine for friends, but for business and...

Speedate.com Interview Notes

I spoke with Dan Abelon, founder of SpeedDate.com, as a follow-up to my earlier post on the latest entrant into the world of speed dating. Dan came up with the concept of SpeedDate while taking entrepreneurship courses with Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) at Stanford...