PARAMUS POST — Apr 8 — Cacus, a 23-year-old college student, is a geek. She turned to gk2gk.com (geek to geek), a Web site that encourages members to list their favorite board games and rate how important "Star Trek" is in their lives. Niche dating sites; datealittle.com (for little people), datingforsmokers.com, starmatch.com (astrology), veggie-romance.com & veggieconnection.com & happycow.net & veggiedate.org, goodgenes.com & rightstuffdating.com (snobs), philanderers.com (cheating bastards), sportsfanmatch.com & athleticwomen.com, spiritsingles.com, maydecember.net (for those who prefer someone much older or younger). Jdate.com, with some 300,000 single Jewish members in the US, and Gay.com, with several million members, are among the largest niche sites. In the BBW (Big, Beautiful Women) category; greatbigdates.com, BBWdatefinder.com, plussizepersonals.com, BBWpersonalsplus.com, largeandlovely.com, overweightdate.com. FULL ARTICLE @ PARAMUS POST
Month: April 2006
Online Profiles: First Impressions are Make or Break
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — Apr 7 — The Salt Lake Tribune asked Judy Silverstein, who co-wrote Online Dating for Dummies, for advice on writing an online profile. Silverstein says if you're not having luck with online dating, it's probably your profile, not you. "You shouldn't give up if it's not working," she said in a telephone conversation from her home in Atlanta. First, it's important to be honest and try to show people how you really are, she says. It's worth the time it takes to get it right.
The full article was originally published at Salt Lake Tribune, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: …and have friends look over your profile. Is it really 'you'? Ask them what you need to add to your profile.
Text-Messaging Changes Dating in Afghanistan
Quepasa Launches Bilingual Hispanic Social Network
The full article was originally published at SYS-CON, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: Quepasa is not a new site, just the social networking portion. Still, traffic is growing nicely for them – Alexa 6,004
MatchSTD.com
PHYS ORG — Apr 6 — The free site launched two weeks and has 3,000 members, averaging ~800 members a day. MPwH (Meet People with H) has 54,000+ members. Nationwide at least 45 million people ages 12 and older, or one out of five adolescents and adults, have had genital HSV infection, and about 40 million Americans are infected with genital warts. There were an estimated 42,514 AIDS diagnoses in 2004. FULL ARTICLE @ PHYS ORG
Googlespawn
The full article was originally published at Red Orbit, but is no longer available.
ScnWeb Releases Online Dating Software
POWER HOME BIZ — Apr 5 — ScnWeb, web design and development company, released Online Dating Software $199, allowing the launch of a full featured dating site.
The full article was originally published at Power Home Biz, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: …and there's dating software from Joyn Communities (monthly fee), and aewebworks $690, and Webscribble.
Speed Dating Research Hopes to get to Heart of Matchmaking
THE GUARDIAN — Apr 5 — To budding Casanovas it is the finest of arts, but to a team of scientists, it is a pig of a problem: what is the best technique for seduction? Researchers, along with Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, is hoping to find the answer are staging a mass speed dating experiment to reveal the most effective strategy for pulling a partner. Over an evening of 500 dates, psychologists will tease out the topic of conversation that emerges as the best for showing quickly whether a couple are well suited or doomed to failure. FULL ARTICLE @ THE GUARDIAN
Antisocial Networking Gets Hip
WIRED NEWS — Apr 5 — The founder of a new anti-social networking site is finding that shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool. Bryant Choung satirized social discovery services when he launched Snubster last month. Members create public lists of people and things that rankle them.
The full article was originally published at Wired, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: Other Friendster satire includes Fiendster (now defunct) and Dogster (which is actually taking off!?)
Webdate Releases Brazen Viral Videos
PR WEB – Apr 4 – Webdate has released a hilarious, frank and brazen look at the world of online personals dating, on online video, and is enjoying a twenty fold increase in site traffic this week. Apparently, some of these videos, like “Little Big Love” are getting over 100,000 unique views per hour. Ten revealing and hard hitting videos uncover the lighter side of Internet dating. Other videos also highlight the most outrageous and amusing faces of online dating. As a testament to its line, ‘You can’t hide when it’s live!’ Webdate has pioneered the concept of having the first date online, rather than at Starbucks or a pricey restaurant. ‘Webdating’ is the new safe and secure way to date where two individuals can go on their first date online using Webdates patented video chat. Webdate users have the ability to meet each other and get a feel for each other’s personality and get to know each other a little better before they take it offline. Webdate is also the mobile dating leader; available on Sprint, Nextel, Boost, US Cellular, and more major carriers coming soon. Users can search, view profiles and communicate with the entire Webdate user base of 6 million users from their cell phones and PDAs. RELEASE @ PR WEB