Category: Outlets – NY Post

YAHOO! Personals Hooks up With Starbucks

Posted on January 20, 2006

Starbucks_1NY POST — Jan 19 — Starbucks and Yahoo! Personals will announce the start of a new relationship today. The coffee giant will give away $10 Starbucks gift cards to people who register for the Internet dating site through Feb. 19. The site will have a location finder for the nearest Starbucks store. 

Mark Brooks: That's a good start on a great potential relationship.  I was wondering when Starbucks would cotton on and seek out a deal with a dating company.  I recommend the 'coffee date' as the ideal first quick-date after meeting someone online. 

Goddess Among Geeks

Posted on December 29, 2005

Goddess_among_geeksNY POST — Dec 27 — SHE is just a little bit cooler than most of the hot nerdy hipsters online at Consummating.com.  She has 269 people who like her and 47 people who do not at Consumating.com, which makes her most popular at the dating site for "hot nerdy girls and indie rock boys."  Consummating, now more than 6,000 users strong, quickly shows users what people are into thanks to "tagging technology," often hyped as part of the next generation of Web 2.0. Other sites that use tagging are the photo sharing site Flickr and popular social bookmarking sites del.icio.us, furl.net and jots.com.  Tags others have givne her; "hominahomina," "madonnalookalike" and "thereisagod." "About the same time I told this one guy I wasn't interested, I get tagged 'possibly retarded,'" Irby says. "I left it up there because I thought it was funny."