Month: August 2005

MARKET WATCH — Aug 3 — New research out of the U.K. indicates that men who spend money on so-called "worthless" gifts — such as theatre tickets or dinners — aren't wasting cash. Researchers Peter Sozou and Robert Seymour at University College London had males and females indicated their prospective partners' attractiveness. Males chose gifts, in terms of extravagant, valuable or cheap, based on their attraction to the females in question. Female accepted or declined the gifts and then chose whether to mate with the male.  Males who gave valuable gifts regularly, would be taken Advantage of and wouldn't be able to accurately assess the females' feelings. But the offering and acceptance of "worthless" gifts — dinners rather than diamonds — showed who the truly interested and attracted females were.  So, going overboard and blowing a lot of money is not a good idea. It sets in motion a high financial precedent that may be easily manipulated.  Go easy on the spending and get to know someone new through reasonably priced or cheap activities.

The full article was originally published at Investors.com, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: Good advice.  As Dr Jama Clark would say, guys, don't be 'doormat.' 

MARKET WATCH — Aug 3 — New research out of the U.K. indicates that men who spend money on so-called "worthless" gifts — such as theatre tickets or dinners — aren't wasting cash. Researchers Peter Sozou and Robert Seymour at University College London had males and females indicated their prospective partners' attractiveness. Males chose gifts, in terms of extravagant, valuable or cheap, based on their attraction to the females in question. Female accepted or declined the gifts and then chose whether to mate with the male.  Males who gave valuable gifts regularly, would be taken Advantage of and wouldn't be able to accurately assess the females' feelings. But the offering and acceptance of "worthless" gifts — dinners rather than diamonds — showed who the truly interested and attracted females were.  So, going overboard and blowing a lot of money is not a good idea. It sets in motion a high financial precedent that may be easily manipulated.  Go easy on the spending and get to know someone new through reasonably priced or cheap activities.

The full article was originally published at Investors.com, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: Good advice.  As Dr Jama Clark would say, guys, don't be 'doormat.' 

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Aug 3 — White Buffalo Ventures appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saying it had complied with anti-spam laws and argued that the University of Texas violated its rights by filtering out 59,000 e-mails in 2003. The 5th Circuit panel found that the federal anti-spam laws do not pre-empt the university’s policy and that the policy is permissible under the First Amendment.  The Austin-based service had legally obtained the addresses from the university, but the university started blocking the e-mail messages saying White Buffalo was part of a larger spam problem that had crashed the computer system.  UT issued a cease and desist order, but White Buffalo refused to comply. So UT blocked the e-mail messages.

Mark Brooks: Shouldn’t the students decide?

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Aug 3 — White Buffalo Ventures appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saying it had complied with anti-spam laws and argued that the University of Texas violated its rights by filtering out 59,000 e-mails in 2003. The 5th Circuit panel found that the federal anti-spam laws do not pre-empt the university’s policy and that the policy is permissible under the First Amendment.  The Austin-based service had legally obtained the addresses from the university, but the university started blocking the e-mail messages saying White Buffalo was part of a larger spam problem that had crashed the computer system.  UT issued a cease and desist order, but White Buffalo refused to comply. So UT blocked the e-mail messages.

Mark Brooks: Shouldn’t the students decide?

PRWEB — July 28 — With DatingShare daters download free peer to peer dating client software. Users can play games like Tetris against online competitors, choose an avatar and dive into a chat room or use audio and video chat. ShareGroup is an internet business company. They founded DatingShare in 2005. Run by ShareGroup.

Mark Brooks: P2P is quite the leap of faith for online daters.  I filled in my profile and chose 'athelatic' as my figure, selected from the games; battleship, chess, tictac…noone available to play with.  Noone on IM, in fact, not too many people to choose from at all.  Nice concept, but here's the kicker…building a great dating site as 10% about the site and 90% about the people.  We're selling people to people.  No people, no product, no go.  Nice concept.