October 21st, 2009 by David Evans
Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post . I am slightly obsessed with Foursquare . “Foursquare lets users “check in” with a cellphone at a bar, restaurant or art gallery. That alerts their friends to their current location so they can drop by and say hello.” I’ve talked about Brightkite and Loopt, similar services which have more members but don’t have the addictive nature of Foursquare.
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Online Dating Industry Links 10-21-09
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October 15th, 2009 by David Evans
From the Frisky, Hong Kong School Girls Dig “Compensated Dating” : In Hong Kong, teenage girls are going on “compensated dates” after school. Basically, they go out with older men in exchange for money, but they don’t see this as prostitution, because in their minds they’re in control of whether or not sex is involved … even though sex is usually involved. Activity Streams is an extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around web. The Activity Streams format has already been adopted by Facebook , MySpace , Windows Live , and Opera. Here’s the wiki and the mailing list . See this presentation on Activity Streams and this post .
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Online Dating Industrt Links 10-15-09
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July 23rd, 2009 by David Evans
I just sent out the inaugural edition of the Online Dating Insider newsletter .
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Introducing the Online Dating Insider Newsletter
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May 20th, 2009 by David Evans
I used the new super-special search Engine Wolfram Alpha to seek out the term “ dating” . I was not impressed, zero results. The founder’s book, A New Kind Of Science, at about 96,000 pages, props open my door nicely when it gets windy. Sometimes people can be too smart for their own good, know what I mean? Over time semantic web style searching for people may be the norm, right now it oscillates between scarily omniscient and broken. Facebook Rolling Out Videochat . What does this mean for Speedate.com and Woome? Went over and hung with Eons today
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Online Dating Industry News May-20-2009
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May 19th, 2009 by David Evans
New Zealand Launches Hookup Airways : Love is in the air — Air New Zealand, that is. The Kiwi carrier has launched Matchmaking Flight to bring lonely travelers together. After all, what better way to get to know The One than sharing a 13-hour flight on your first date?
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Online Dating Industry News May-19-2009
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