Archive for the ‘Online Dating Identity’ Category

Our new dating site has 360 Million users

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only ...

OkCupid Puts on a New Facebook

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

OkCupid.com, a free online dating site, has announced the launch of its quiz application for Facebook. Once completed, the OkCupid Dating Quiz gives you your personality type and allows you to add it to your Facebook profile. Next week, the application will expand to allow users to take any of ...

Does Rapleaf Know too much?

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

In the cozy Facebook social network, it's easy to have a sense of privacy among friends and business acquaintances. But sites like Rapleaf will quickly jar you awake: Everything you say or do on a social network could be fair game to sell to marketers.Rapleaf, based in San Francisco, is ...

LAUNCH!

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

After months of planning, coding, designing, spending, anxiety, etc etc, I am pleased to announce the release of Collaboradate V1. So what's so special about it? I'm glad you asked :) There's a lot of work to be done, and many bugs to be squashed, but it's good enough ...

Meet Internet mogul Barry Diller of Match.com

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

For those who missed it in “The Sopranos” frenzy (and stop arguing now–it was a good ending), CBS’s “60 Minutes” did a pretty warm and fuzzy profile of media and Internet mogul Barry Diller on Sunday. He comes off charming and smooth, expertly batting away all suggestions by interviewer Lesley Stahl ...

Match uses male manhood and animal sex for promotion

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Adrants along with shedwa talk about Match's new phallic and sex tainted animated commercials. I'm really sad to see Match drudging the gutter again like the always tacky True. In the first spot, you will see the women picks the man with the massive wanker. In the second spot, ...

There’s gold in that silver

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

When it comes to online dating, one would think it a world dominated by the young, web-savvy folks in their 20s or 30s looking for love and the mates of their lives. There’s a lot to that. The young do very much dominate online dating. Yet increasingly dating sites report ...

Flaw-O-Matic 2.0

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

In this meta-analysis of online dating and speed dating, we propose a corollary to the Flaw-O-Matic theory of romantic revulsion. Current research reveals that the Flaw-O-Matic, a mechanism in the brain that instantly finds fault with any potential mate, can be reoriented positively in certain conditions through a newly identified ...

Google your online dating prospects

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Dating used to be largely a matter of spending time with a love interest, discovering the good, the bad and the ugly in person. If you were lucky, friends helped fill in some of the blanks. These days, the Internet - and the ability to check people out before they ever ...

Women research to stay safe

Monday, April 9th, 2007

BEWARE OF Gregory from Oakland. He is not single. Rather, he is married and cheats on his wife Saturday nights before church, no less. Not only that, but "he dyes his hair and lies about his age," according to a post by his anonymous ex-girlfriend on Dontdatehimgirl.com. Michael of Fremont? ...

The Reinvention Craze

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

I've been reading a lot of reinvention declarations lately, most recently from plentyoffish (social network transformation) and HotorNot (going 100% free). Markus says he is going to move into the social networking market. Markus is no dummy, quite the contrary, however this shift is really perplexing to me. If someone ...

Demo of ajax quick search in Collaboradate V1.0

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

I am glad to present to you a demo of the upcoming release of Collaboradate 1.0's revolutionary ajax search functionality. When you log into Collaboradate 1.0, you will load only 1 initial screen, and all the functionality is Ajax enabled. Quick, efficient, and slick is the name of the game. ...