Archive for the ‘Finding Love Online’ Category
Friday, February 29th, 2008
WHAT?!!? Yes, you heard me... it's dead! The "traditional" online dating site is dead, especially paid sites (Sam I look forward to hear how I am crazy :D). I'm calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year for paid online dating. More and more users are starting to ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
When my editor suggested that someone put an ad on Craigslist and find out why people use online dating services to meet people, I was more than eager. Meeting new people has always fascinated me, and it seemed like it might be interesting to use a new forum to make ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, assignment, careful, craigslist, eager, fascinated, honest, revealing, risks | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
With social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace now in the digital dating mix, there are plenty of new chances to meet the right -- and wrong -- people online.
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Grayson Currin, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, who describes himself as a "big, burly guy," posted his band's photograph on his ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight.
Other “founding partners” of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, ...
Posted in Api's, Beta, Dating 2.0, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widgets, addition, hyves, imeem, ning, officially, opensocial, plaxo, salesforce | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Another study about online social networks has discovered the obvious: people with photos are more likely to be contacted by strangers, and girls get more unwarranted attention than guys. Perhaps the next study could address the “hottness” factor?
A survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that ...
Posted in Beta, Finding Love Online, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Research, barrage, contacted, girls, guys, porn, strangers, study, tricking | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Older woman seduces younger man. Sound familiar? It's a scene from the new classic "Wedding Crashers."
Actress Demi Moore is 15 years older than her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher. But high-profile Hollywood couples like Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (12 years her junior) -- who met and began dating while filming ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Uncategorized, men, older, romance, susan, winter, woman, younger | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
According to some recent snooping around by Juniper Research, mobile dating services will bring in a hefty $1 billion from the lovelorn by 2010. This year 40 million people are expected to use mobile dating services such as chat rooms for singles. That number will surge to 260 million by ...
Posted in 2010, 2012, Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, hefty, iphone, japan, juniper, loneliest, lonely, mobile | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
If you rocked out to Bruce Springsteen, perfected your runway walk to that of Twiggy's, and spent hours playing with Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Ouija Boards, then you are probably a Baby Boomer. Thirty percent of the 85 million Boomers in the US and Canada (those born between 1946 -1964) are ...
Posted in 1946, 1964, Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized, baby, boomers, frisbees, hiatus, simply, yos | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
CAMBRIDGE - Success came early to Sam Yagan. So did failure. By the time he was 22, the son of Syrian immigrants was living the American dream, Internet version. Early in 1999, in the spring of his senior year at Harvard, he and two classmates launched an online study guide ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, early, graduates, negotiated, okcupid, sam, sparknotes, sweat, yagan | 3 Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Our seventh annual Best Cities For Singles contains some significant changes. First, because we are using a different U.S. census definition of "city" this year, four cities have been removed from consideration (Charlotte, Greensboro, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham) and have been replaced with four new cities (Jacksonville, Buffalo,Memphis and Baltimore). Second, ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, cities, date, dating, francisco, love, online, san, singles, top | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Dating sites have come a long way, and now there are hundreds of alternative services beyond the all-encompassing Match.com and the breakout hit PlentyofFish. If you’re looking for one last summer fling (or just a human for a change –editor), we’ve picked out more than twenty niche dating services.
Mashable keeps ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Site Reviews, Web 2.0, Widgets, breakout, encompassing, fling, human, info, niche, twenty, we’ve | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Beth Speece of Mankato says when it comes to online dating, some people make assumptions. “I think there’s this misconception that you’ve got to be a loser. Hey, I was just busy,” she said.On a lark last year, Beth joined Match.com, one of the Web’s most popular dating sites. It ...
Posted in Finding Love Online, Online Dating News, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Uncategorized, beth, grant, love, speece, stories, taboo, there’s, thought | 2 Comments »
