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Super-selective dating sites

Online dating personals are getting more personal. New York Daily News on dating sites kicking out potential members based on service-specific parameters. My quotes got slightly bungled but overall the story is right on. Dating sites are increasing becoming more...

Secret Society of Pickup Artists

By way of BoingBoing, CNN writes about Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss, who has written a Pickup Artist book based on neuro-linguistic programming. Negs, Indicators of Interest, last minute resistance, this is taking picking up women to a whole new level. Remember,...

Techcrunch reviews iKarma

Techcrunch has a good review of iKarma. I’ve been on the site for a while now and agree with most of what they said, both the good and bad. Tagging can wait, it’s usefulness to average customer is lost. I spend a lot of time talking about tagging, and most...

Meetic IPO imminent

Marc Simoncini’s Eurpean online dating powerhouse, Meetic, next week will offer 570,387 existing shares and and issue up to 3.93 million new shares at between 19.20-22.30 euros. Meetic made a net profit of 2.7 million euros on sales of 21.3 million euros in...

Build social applications at Ning

Hot on the heels of my post about remixing Web 2.0 services comes Ning. Founded by Marc Andresson (think Netscape), it’s a development tool for non-developers. Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for people to build and run...

Web2.0 dating site mashups

Every once in a while I freshen up my various profiles. New headlines, new photos, new interests, reflecting the ever-changing me. My checklist of sites to revisit goes something like this: Various dating sites Myspace, Friendster Tribe.net, Yahoo 360...

Handwritingprofiles.com updated

Some of you may remember Michael Kahlowsky of HandwritingProfiles doing assessments at SITRAS in Miami last year. Michael recently updated the site and I love the tag line for the service, “Exposing the personality behind the pen.” Makes me wonder why I...