SingleSquare Adds Features, Polish to Location-based Dating
A while back I took a look at SingleSquare, a free dating app that uses FourSquare technology to allow users to post “Sightings” of singles or post themselves as being single to particular places where they are located and can interact in real time. Over...Online Dating Industry Links 5-3-11
The market is saturated with mobile apps for finding nearby friends, dates and deals, but this hasn’t kept the ex-CEO of Match.com, Jim Safka, from starting a new location-based social/dating site called AtZip. I have 10 or so similar apps on my phone and I...A Modern Analysis of Sex
Research and infographic powerhouse OkCupid has a new story that looks into, you guessed it, sex. Some of the graphics are interactive, featuring sliders, clickable menus and zoomable datasets. Relationship duration, sexual proclivities and of course a perennial...Match.com To Offer Sex Offender Screening
Big news in the world of online dating. Match.com has announced it would begin running members through a sex offender registry. The story began to unfold just over a week ago, around the time I interviewed the rape victim, then called Jane Doe, who was attacked by a...Live Video Is The Next Big Thing In Social And Dating
Shawn Parker and Sean Fanning are at it again. You know them as the founders of Napster and you saw Mr. Parker in the Social Network. Remember Chatroulette and how exciting it was until you saw your 23rd crotch shot in the first 10 minutes? Parker and Fanning were...Your Little Black App Date Tracker
How many times have you shown up on a date, looked at the other person and totally forgotten who they are? Janet? Jane, Judy? Elvin, Don, Horatio? iPhone users, your busy lives have been spared one more potentially embarrassing moment thanks to Date Mate. The app help...Spark Networks CEO Steps Down, COO Takes Over
Spark Networks, which owns a cadre of dating sites, dominated by JDate, has made a big executive move. President & Chief Operating Officer, Greg Liberman, will be the new President & Chief Executive Officer. Adam Berger, who joined Spark as a board member in...Voice-Activated Dating
My latest favorite mobile app is Siri. Siri lets you ask it questions out loud and returns results in a chat-like interface. Apple likes Siri as well, so much they brought the company last year. Today I asked Siri about single women in Boston. The screenshot shows the...Does Face Reading For Dating Really Work?
I am having a blast taking people’s photos and running them through FaceReader from Profiler1. Not to be confused with this competing Face Reader. Here are some notes culled from discussion with Profiler1 and pulled from their website. Profiler1 has automated...
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