Is there still a stigma associated with online dating? Based on the feedback that I received after last week's article, "How to End the Online...
VChatter, a video chat startup led by online dating pioneer Will Bunker, has raised $250,000 in seed funding, VentureBeat reported.
vChatter, a video chat startup led by online dating pioneer Will Bunker, has raised $250,000 in seed funding.
The service is similar in some ways to Chatroulette, a popular site where you can randomly chat with other users. However,Show More Summary
It's online dating for farmers, complete with red rhetoric: There are basically two groups in America. Group one: their lives revolve around four dollar cups of coffee, taxi cabs, blue suits, high heels, conference rooms and getting ahead at all costs in the corporate world. Show More Summary
Online Dating Leader Anastasia International Launches First Ever Worldwide Virtual Beauty Pageant PR Newswire — September 2, 2010 BANGOR, Maine, September 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Online dating innovator Anastasia International ( http://www.anastasiadate.com/about-anastasia.html)...Show More Summary
Lately it feels as if online dating is as common as meeting people at...
A new dating service for male Harvard grads boasts that it gives women "total control" over the online dating process. An online dating system that promotes female empowerment? Not so much.
A recent survey by online dating service OkCupid found that iPhone users have more sex than Android users. In that same vein, a new study finds iPhone users are "chicken-eating, diaper-changing, house-cleaning, People-reading fish owners,"...Show More Summary
Via Cosma, this Ta-Nehisi Coates post gives a nice critique of selection bias in action. Ayres finds this depressing, and laments that black women have “an uphill battle.” TIME uses the study, and others of online dating sites, and concludes...Show More Summary
Among the revelations of dating site OK Cupid's data crunch of its membership: "Men are on average 2 inches shorter than they say in their profiles, while women are an inch shorter. About 50 percent of daters fib about their weight. Almost everyone exaggerates their income by 20 percent." Oh, and this: "80% of self-identified [...]
Today we looked at sad lonely online dating for sad lonely people. Naturally this got you all telling your own stories, with one commenter painting an interesting triptych of women. More »
Breaking: everyone involved in online dating is a craven, superficial liar. And that's the good news. We're all equal! Dating should be a breeze, since we're all young, tall, wealthy, and attractive (online). But the evidence says: love's tough. More »
On the heels of eHarmony's 10th anniversary - signaling a decade of having the most charming and well-styled TV commercials in the online dating sphere...
The first fire-red flag with Jack should have come across loud and clear when he asked me—in our very first email exchange – to "rate" his online dating profile picture. This is Match.com, I thought, not one of those sort-of-creepy hot-or-not sites. Show More Summary
A few weeks ago I wrote The 11 Dudes of Online Dating, where I teamed up with Kia Matthews, a blogger who caught my eye with her her OKCupid experiences. So it's only fair that we cover the fairer sex now.
Read on for our 11 Girls of...Show More Summary
TNR’s Ruth Franklin test-drives a new online dating service that “purports to match people based on their taste in literature.” Spoiler alert: Sebald lovers appear to be out of luck.
Lavalife Reveals the Fate of the Turkey Baster Leading online dating site asks members: would you donate your sperm or eggs for a friend to have a baby? PR Newswire — August 24, 2010 TORONTO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ — The new movie, “The Switch” starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman tells the tale of a [...]
For the dudes (or the ladies) who can't find a decent date, why not try a more captive audience... like inmates. Three new online dating sites, Prison Inmates, Cellblockmail, and Meet-An-Inmate allow you to find the prisoner pen pal of your dreams. Show More Summary
Back before the Internet and online personals were born, there was a phenomenon called "video dating." One of its advantages over today's methods: it was a lot harder to exaggerate your physical appearance or mislead with those from-above MySpace... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Talk about a niche dating site. TheUglyBugBall.co.uk launched on Monday as the first online dating site only for ugly people in the UK. It claims to "deal in reality," is free to join and filled with 1,500 unattractive people who want to, um, bump uglies. Show More Summary