Month: May 2009
Bad Dating Behaviour
PRESS RELEASE — May 29 — 8m singles in the UK are looking for love, and they’ll go on 18m first dates this year – but at least 6m of those will end in disaster, and even fewer will lead to something special. Of the 1,300 singles polled by PARSHIP.co.uk 40% admitted to turning up late for a first date – or not showing at all; 28% talked about their ex and past sexual experiences, 14% confessed to over-indulging in alcohol, and 6% said they’d been chaperoned by a friend, their mother — or even a pet. 14% of women surveyed admitted to drinking so much on a first date that they felt out of control.
Online Dating Aggregators
WASHINGTON POST — May 29 — The explosion of online dating sites has gotten overwhelming. But some new companies are trying to streamline the process of searching for singles by culling profiles from different sites into one central Web portal. Industry folks call it "online dating aggregation," but James Nord, founder of one such company, called Rubixx, compares its service to companies such as CheapFlights.com or Kayak where users log on, search for flights, are fed potential options from various providers and click through to the airline's site to purchase. Rubixx works similarly by feeding daters' profiles of potential matches who fit their basic requirement from a variety of dating sites. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
OKCupid Downtime
OPW — May 29 — OKCupid went down tonight. I thought you might get a kick out of their online message on the site:
"So…We thought it would be cool to get a cat for the office, but we needed a litter box, and there wasn't really room in the bathroom, so we put it next to these servers in the back, and everything would have been fine, but the A/C repair guy was allergic and the cat reacts badly to loud noises and there were all these wires hanging back there and a bunch of surprisingly flammable packing material…
Erik thought it would be JUST AWESOME to put a paperclip on the end of a rubber band and shoot it at Vinay's eye, and it would have just been Erik and Vinay's problem except Vinay had a cup of coffee and was standing over James, who was fixing our router at the time…
Anyway, we'll have things back up soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. – Worker"
Patti Stanger Will Speak At The L.A. iDate
PRESS RELEASE — May 28 – Patti Stanger, star of the Bravo TV series "The Millionaire Matchmaker," author of the bestselling book “Become Your Own Matchmaker” and CEO of "www.MillionairesClub123.com,” will discuss how TV can be utilized to positively impact the online dating and matchmaking industry at the Internet Dating Conference in Los Angeles on June 25th.
The full article was originally published at PR News Channel, but is no longer available.
Bill Aims To Bar Sex Offenders From Social Web Sites
NEWSDAY — May 27 – A Nassau County legislator proposed a bill Wednesday aimed at barring convicted sex offenders on probation from having computer access to social Web sites where they could prey on youngsters. Sex offenders who used a computer in their crime could be required to register their computers with the county and allow the installation of monitoring software as a condition of probation. FULL ARTICLE @ NEWSDAY
Talkster Wins TMC’s 2008 Communications Solutions Product Of The Year Award
MARKETWIRE — May 27 — Talkster, an alternative mobile communications company, won Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for its mobile application talki. talki gives consumers affordable alternatives to traditional long distance and international calling, plus SMS and MMS without any charges. Talkster has been awarded TMC's Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for the last three years, having won for its innovation in voice over instant messaging (VoIM) technologies in 2006 and for its innovative Free World Dialing(TM) ad-supported calling service in 2007. FULL ARTICLE @ AJAX WORLD MAGAZINE
Aussie Women As Keen As Men To Take Part In Group Sex
INDIAN EXPRESS — May 27 – As per the RedHotPie.com.au survey, which drew 8763 responses, almost as many women as men instigate the idea of group sex – 46% compared with 54%. The most common reasons given for group sex are excitement, variety and to spice up long-term relationships. FULL ARTICLE @ INDIAN EXPRESS
Audio Chat And Video Chat IM To Be Covered At iDate2009
NEWSWIRE TODAY — May 27 – Many dating sites experienced an upheaval after one of the largest audio and video chat IM providers shut its doors for business. The June 25-26, 2009 event in Los Angeles will cover alternatives for online dating executives. iDate2009 Los Angeles will have a session that will cover this issue in detail, with a list of the top Flash IM providers and an overview of what their technology has to offer. FULL ARTICLE @ NEWSWIRE TODAY
fish4 And White Label Dating Team Up To Launch fish4love
PRESS RELEASE — May 27 — fish4, the online portal to find jobs, homes, cars and holidays anywhere in the UK and White Label Dating (WLD), the provider of software and services that enable brands to create their own online dating sites, have launched fish4love. WLD will provide the back-end systems, software, customer support and access to its extensive database for fish4’s new dating site.
The full article was originally published at PR Inside, but is no longer available.