CNN — Sep 2 – As the baby boom generation ages and once-married boomers become single again, they increasingly are turning to the Web in search of dates. The number of eHarmony users age 45+ and divorced has more than doubled in the past eight years, says Gian Gonzaga, senior researcher for eHarmony. Registered users ages 45-64 jumped 9% from 2007-2008. For many grown children, having a parent suddenly jump into the dating pool is a shock, especially if the parent begins dating numerous people, and perhaps having sex with new partners. PerfectMatch.com CEO Duane Dahl, age 46, helped his own mother, who is in her late 60s, enroll in his service. "This is a great opportunity for us to help our parents and educate them", says Dahl. FULL ARTICLE @ CNN
Month: September 2009
Dating & Dollars: Recession Relationships
CBS NEWS — Sep 2 — According to Cosmopolitan magazine poll 59% women say that if they were on the fence about dating a guy, they would be more likely to go out with him if he made a lot of money. 74% of women still check out what a man as wearing as an indicator of their resources. 28% of men earn less than their girlfriends. Of those men, 1/3 still pay for most things. FULL ARTICLE @ CBS NEWS
Interracial Dating Trends
BLACK STATE — Sep 1 — Caucasian females are least likely to date Asian men, whilst white males in the U.S tend to be least attracted to female African American's. With all the choice and online dating niches available, cross cultural online dating is one niche that remains untapped. Up until 1967, U.S law prohibited marriage outside of ones race. Interracial dating and marriage is far more acceptable in main stream society now. According to 2008 U.S census data black men married 310,000 white women, 4,190,000 black women, and 39,700 Asian women. White men married 55,399,200 white women, 137,000 black women, and 713,000 Asian women. Asian men married 193,000 white women, 8,400 black women, and 2,790,000 Asian women. FULL ARTICLE @ BLACKSTATE.COM
Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service
TECH CRUNCH — Sep 1 – Thread.com, a startup formerly known as Frintro, has closed a $1.2M funding round led by some of Silicon Valley’s most well known investors. Included in the round are First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, fbFund, and a number of independent investors, including Ron Conway, David Sacks, Auren Hoffman, Pedro Miguel Martins, Reid Hoffman, Joe Greenstein, Saran Chari, and Shervin Pishevar. Thread.com uses Facebook Connect to look up information about your friends and friends of your friends. Depending on your connection to each match you’ll be able to see things like their current relationship status, location, interests, profile photos, and photo albums. Thread.com makes it easy to simply message a member through Facebook, but CEO Brian Phillips says that the best way to spark a relationship is that you ask your friends to introduce you. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
iDate Los Angeles Conference Video
OPW — Sep 2 — The iDate Los Angeles event video is live at InternetDatingConference.com. The event happened in July 2009 and had double the attendance of the
last West Coast event, which was held in July 2008 in San Francisco. Los Angeles was definitely a better location for the event! Check out
Max Polyakov from EasyDate at the end of the video.
Zhenai, The World’s Largest Dating Site?
PR NEWSWIRE — Sep 1 – Zhenai.com, China's largest matchmaking website, announced that the number of its registered members reached 20,022,000 on July 31, 2009. With ~40,000 new members each day, the website has exceeded the number of members on Match.com in the U.S. Jiayuan, a Chinese dating site that closely trails Zhenai.com in the number of registered members, announced that its total registered members bypassed 17,580,000 on July 31, 2009, with 20,000 new members registering each day. iResearch Consulting predicted that the number of Chinese online daters will reach 140,000,000 by 2010.
The full article was originally published at Reuters, but is no longer available.
Recommended Online Dating Books
OPW — Sep 1 — The Courtland Brooks team has created a list of books on online dating we think you
would enjoy reading.
Act
Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
(What Men Really Think About Love,
Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment)
Why
Him? Why Her? by Helen Fisher
(Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type)
I Love You, Let’s Meet by Virginia Vitzhum
(Adventures in Online Dating)
He Typed. She Typed by Mark Van Wye and Amy Turner
Become
Your Own Matchmaker by Patti Stanger and Lisa Johnson Mandell
(8 Easy Steps for Attracting
Your Perfect Mate)
The list is under the Handy Links section on the right bar. Or you can click here.
Favorite iDating Books
Act
Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
(What Men Really Think About Love,
Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment)
Why
Him? Why Her? by Helen Fisher
(Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type)
I Love You, Let’s Meet by Virginia Vitzhum
(Adventures in Online Dating)
He Typed. She Typed by Mark Van Wye and Amy Turner
Become
Your Own Matchmaker by Patti Stanger and Lisa Johnson Mandell
(8 Easy Steps for Attracting
Your Perfect Mate)
The Perils of Cyber-Dating by Julie Spira
Online Personals Watch Available On Kindle
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so you can stay current.
Virtual Dating Helps Couples Test Waters
DISCOVERY — Sep 1 — Discovery Channel spoke to Ravit Abelman, the co-founder of OmniDate.com, a digital media company that transforms digital dating sites into a 3D virtual dating experience. “With virtual dating you don’t have to settle for boring text profiles, chat rooms or 2 dimensional photo libraries”, Ravit explains. “We are placed in a virtual environment such as coffee shops, restaurants, bars and even Caribbean resorts.” Step one of your virtual date is to choose an avatar. Right now the avatar selection is kind of limited but eventually OmniDate will make avatars in your own image. Ravit’s program has some cool features to make the experience more human. If you type LOL your avatar laughs. There are also some ice breaker games you can play to get to know each other.