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Userplane On 100k Websites

Userplane sent out new stats for their communications suite. (Userplane is a long-time sponsor of ODI). 40 million, 60 million live conversations between users in 20 countries each month. The company is adding 5,000 new communities to its roster each week Ad network...

Ecto Feature Request

The the creators of Ecto, my favorite blogging tool: When I type something, then apply a formatting like bold, then undo, what I typed last is removed. Undo should roll back the most recent command, which was applying the formatting, not deleting the most recently...

Dating Site Mashup Tools

Programmableweb is a site dedicated to Web 2.0 API’s for merging/mashing/RSSifying and generally making the interweb a better place. The dating entries are all based on HotOrNot, zzzzz. I want to see who can mashup Yahoo and Match search results without using...

Anyone Tried LSD?

I read about LSD while checking out the new WordPress blogging software. Live Speed Dating technical details here. The website at www.livespeedating.com/ seems to be down at the moment. People login to the application and then signup/checkin into the event they would...

People Recommendation Systems

I need to respond to an Italian journalist who asked about recommendation engines and how they related to social networking and dating. What better place to ponder on a rainy Saturday morning? Pandora and Last.fm are music recommendation sites I’ve been talking...

Google Romance

Funny April Fool’s joke, Google Romance. Batch upload multiple profiles, “I’m Feeling Lucky”, Contextual Pre-Date Advertising and Contextual Dating Advisors. I’m glad it’s a joke. Technorati Tags: google romance

Friday Afternoon

Took a nice run today, my body is not used to the heat, 73 today. Running along the Charles this time of year is sobering, as the Boston Marathoners in training fly by doing 6-minute miles. Myspace has removed 200,000 objectionable profiles. Dating sites, take note,...

Pandora.fm Mashup

Reali-ity has created a mashup of last.fm and Pandora. This is the most useful merge of two different sites I’ve seen in a while. I’ve written about both services here and here. Finally something new and useful that isn’t geared towards build-n-flip...