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Niche Dating Site Brings Book Lovers Together

Alikewise


Niche dating sites really are on the rise. Alikewise is a dating site that allows you to find people based on their book tastes. The profiles on Alikewise include lists of books the readers like to read. For example, NerdyReaderLady likes Kitchen Confidential and The Road.

Posted on July 30, 2010
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Niche Dating Sites Growing in Popularity

CNN's Ayesha Durgahee reports on the trend in niche dating site. She says being picky might help increase your chances of finding success. There are niche sites for farmers, matching IQ and lifestyle. Ayesha also talks about the larger, general dating sites. Take a look:



Posted on June 30, 2010
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Should You Lie About Your Age in Online Profiles

YourTango.com's Online Dating Coach Evan Marc Katz explains about whether or not you should lie about your age in your profile. He doesn't think it would be unethical to tweak your age slightly so you show up in most search results as long as you explain your real age in your profile. However, he says you are better off writing to people who are seeking your actual age. Take a look:



Posted on March 31, 2010
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Skout.com Plans First iPad Dating App

Skout iPadThe iPad is likely to be a popular product even with all the feminine hygiene jokes. Because of this there will be iPad dating apps. Skout.com, a dating mobile website, plans to launch the first dating app for the iPad.
As an industry first, Skout found a way connect the virtual online dating world with the real world. People can use Skout to chat, share photos, and even share videos. The new SKOUT.COM iPad app will not only show you singles nearby who are active and ready to chat, it will also boast a new concept: The HotMap. The Map will display a live overview of where most singles are currently active in your area. If members are searching for men between 25-30, the map will show the highest concentration of the results on the map. Data is aggregated live from the Skout Network of over 500,000 members using iPhones, the web, mobile web, and now the iPad. According to Match.com founder Gary Kremen, "As we stand at the cusp of mobile convergence, SKOUT is perfectly positioned to disrupt the online dating market. SKOUT represents what all dating companies must become to not only just remain relevant, but to survive." The Skout dating service is available on virtually every mobile phone with a browser as well as via a laptop or desktop computer by visiting http://www.skout.com. With Valentine's around the corner members can also rely on SKOUT to meet up with others with similar interests who are nearby hoping to communicate and maybe even find love.
The iPad would be a lot more useful for people using dating social networking websites if it had a camera but it doesn't.

Posted on January 31, 2010
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Crazy Blind Date Promises Short Notice Dates

Crazy Blind Date


A website named Crazy Blind Date is promising crazy blind dates. The site promises dates arranged in extremely short notice. The site says it is for "social, outgoing, and adventurous people." Here is how you meet each other quickly according to the faq.
When you agree to a date, you'll get to see a description of your match. If you still can't find each other amongst all the other nervous-looking people at that bar or coffee shop, quack like a dog and make armpit farts. If that doesn't work, you can send each other text messages through us. In the final 30 minutes before the date, we open a relay. If you send a text message to CUPID (28743) it will go to your date's phone. For example: "I'm at the bar in the back, wearing a blue sweater, drinking a martini."
It does sound kind of crazy. Note: making armpit farts does not sound like a good idea despite what the faq says.

Posted on December 20, 2009
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Conde Nast Launches Truly Madly Dating

Truly Mading DatingConde Nast may be dumping magazines but they are totally into online dating. The magazine publisher has launched a dating site for fashionistas called Truly Madly Dating. There's a little bit of Mad Men in that title and logo. Vogue.co.uk says the website is supported by GQ.com and Glamour.com. The new niche dating site is currently offering a 7-day free trail.

Posted on October 10, 2009
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Gelato Dating Site Authenticates Users With Facebook and Twitter

GelatoDigital Beat reports that a new start-up called Gelato is a new type of online dating website that also pulls in real-time data from services like Facebook, Twitter and Facebook.
Instead of creating a profile, Gelato pulls in updates from your Facebook profile, Twitter account, Netflix queue, Pandora stations and Flickr photos to create what founder Steve Odom says is a more authentic profile of who you are. Odom says online dating is ripe for change because it involves static profiles that are time-consuming to create and that people don’t bother to update very often.

“Dating sites haven’t really changed in five years,” Odom said. “At the same time with Twitter, I felt if I could follow someone for a couple weeks, I’d get a more honest picture of who they are.”
The "stream dating" website uses Facebook Connect or Twitter's OAuth feature to verify you who are instead of using passwords or email.



Posted on September 24, 2009
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Match.com Acquires People Media

People Media SitesThe Washington Post reports that Match.com is acquiring People Media, a network of over two dozen dating sites.
The deal includes the purchase of about 27 targeted dating sites with a combined 255,000 paying subscribers, including BlackPeopleMeet.com, BBPeopleMeet.com, LDSPlanet.com, SingleParentMeet.com and SeniorPeopleMeet.com.

People Media, founded in 2002, had $11.6 million of EBITDA in 2008 and quotes Jupiter Research as saying the combined revenues of the targeted dating service business are expected to reach $1.2 billion worldwide this year. Still according to the announcement, People Media, besides exclusively powering multiple AOL Personals communities, reaches nearly 4 million internet users each month. Match.com attracted about 5.8 million unique monthly users in May 09 according to comScore and reported $9.9 million in operating income before amortization last year.
People Media also powers AOL Personals communities says the Post, which is where most of its unique visitors come from. It's not clear from the article whether Match.com will continue running all the Peoples Media sites as separate sites from Match.com.

Posted on July 10, 2009
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Company Offers Online Dating Assistance

VDATechCrunch reports that there is actually a service for those too busy to manage online dating profiles. A company called Virtual Dating Assistants will handle your online profiles using "advanced internet dating techniques and strategies" for $480 a month.
At a price of $480 per month, the company's virtual dating assistants will use "advanced internet dating techniques and strategies to create online dating profiles, interact with women and set up dates with them." The company says it will work approximately 40 hours per month for each customer and guarantees them a minimum of 2 dates per month (or their money back).

Co-founders Mark Anderson and Scott Valdez are overseeing a cherry-picked team of virtual assistants that are referred to as "007" Dating Assistants due to the "suave and sophisticated nature of their undercover interactions." Yes, they are actually called "007" Dating Assistants.
This service could certainly help the very busy but it might also take the fun out of finding a date yourself.

Posted on June 16, 2009
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When to Say I Love You

The ladies of the Internet talk show TMI discuss when to say "I love you" and their first loves. This article on Salon may have the right answer - everyone is different and when it is right will be a little different for everyone. Suite 101 has a list of 64 ways to say "I Love You."



Posted on May 23, 2009
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PlentyofFish Adds Paid Service

Plenty of FishThe Wall Street Journal reports that a free dating site called PlentyofFish is going to add a paid service. The paid option will be for "serious" daters.
In a February report, Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay called it "the most successful of a new generation of 'free' or advertising-supported dating sites," and one whose growth could pose a "Craigslist-like disintermediation” threat to established players like Yahoo Personals and IAC's Match.com.

By wading into the paid arena, it may lessen that disintermediation risk, but compete on more even terms with those sites.

According to a blog entry by its CEO, Markus Frind, PlentyofFish will sell "Serious Member" badges that will appear on members’ pages for three, six or 12 months. Serious members will be marked as such in search results, and their messages to prospective partners will be highlighted.

PlentyofFish's approach to a paid option is different from Match and Yahoo Personals, which charge users when they sign up or attempt to contact someone. "Paid sites monetize on impulse," Mr. Frind wrote. "PlentyofFish is going to monetize on user intent. I believe we will have far more members that are serious than paid sites."
Sometimes online service to do need a paid level to weed out those who are not serious about the website. We will see if it works for PlentyofFish. Some people do have more free time because they are out of work but at the same time they have less money to spend on dating or on paid dating websites.

Posted on March 20, 2009
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Hookups Replacing Dating?

Julie Chen talked to Kathleen Bogle, an Asst. Prof. of Sociology at LaSalle University about the vague meaning of term "hookup" for young people who may or may not be having sex. Bogle says the meaning does not always mean sex and can be less harmful than people think. That said it is upsetting to hear dating being replaced by more random and casual encounters. Kathleen Bogle says some of these casual daters return to more typical dating later in life. See also, Charles Blow's op-ed for the New York Times on the "Demise of Dating."



Posted on December 20, 2008
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Video: How to Get a Second Date

Youtuber Samantha Nicole offers some tips for how to get a second date in this YouTube video. Some of her tips include avoid too much cologne, turn off your cell phone and don't try too hard. She suggests a cafe or a lounge for a first date. She also gives some suggestions for ways to make it sound like you are listening and interested in what your date has to say.



Posted on November 7, 2008
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Some Centenarians Use Online Dating Services

100at100 SurveyThe third annual Evercare 100@100 Survey polled 100 centenarians. The poll shifts conventional stereotypes on aging by revealing that some of the oldest Americans are still using the latest technologies including sending emails and "Googling" lost acquaintances.

Our sister site SurfersSurf.com reports that one of the results from the study found that at least some of the 100-year-olds are using online dating. It was only 3% but this figure was as high as it is for Baby Boombers. Apparently, you are never too old to try online dating.
Love 2.0: As many Centenarians as Baby Boomers (3 percent) say they have dated someone they met on an online dating site. Twelve percent of Centenarians surveyed say they have used the Internet and some have "Googled" someone they have lost contact with (2 percent) or have visited someone's personal Web site (2 percent).


Posted on August 11, 2008
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Some Lazy Online Daters Copy Other People's Profiles

Cut and Paste RomanceOnline personals are extremely popular. They have become one of the most obvious and well-known ways to find a date. But what do you say when you are writing your profile? Most people would say that's easy just explain who you are and what you like but don't be arrogant or condescending about it. That's too difficult for some online dating hacks who instead copy-and-paste material from other people's personals. The Wall Street Journal investigated the issue and found it happens fairly often.
A search on MySpace.com brought up more than 700 recent comments that accuse others of stealing headlines, user names, songs, background designs and entire profiles. In a recent survey of more than 400 online daters commissioned by Engage.com, 9% of respondents said they copied from another person's profile; 15% suspect their own words were stolen.

A Match.com profile of a man in Redmond, Wash., includes this postscript: "Shame on the woman who plagiarized my narrative and stole it for her profile!" And a 34-year-old woman in Basking Ridge, N.J., tacked this P.S. to her Plentyoffish.com profile: "To the girl who copied my profile -- and denies it...you s-!"

The quest for originality has spawned the services of online-dating coaches and profile writers. Some of them are victims, too. Dave Mizrachi, 34, of Miami sells an "Insider Internet Dating" course for $97. Mr. Mizrachi includes his own dating profile, advising men to use it as a guide. But at least 25 people on Match.com have stolen his lines, including: "I get a lot of women emailing me, (which is great for an ego boost)." One man uses Mr. Mizrachi's photo.

A recent search on Match.com brought up more than 90 profiles with such lines as: "I want an opposite. A yin to my yang," or "You know that woman who is the first person on the dance floor at every party? That's me." They weren't even from real people. They were cribbed from sample profiles posted online at E-Cyrano.com by dating coach and profile writer Evan Marc Katz. "It just seems so short-sighted," says Mr. Katz, of Los Angeles. "Everybody steals the same lines so they are not original anymore."
The WSJ article includes several personal stories about shameless people using other people's profile information to score dates.
Thierry Khalfa says he had a good excuse to copy: His English isn't so good. The 44-year-old Frenchman first cobbled a ho-hum profile that said he liked to cook and enjoyed walks on the beach. Then he stumbled across the profile of Mike Matteo, 47, a screenwriter in Tampa, Fla. Mr. Matteo's profile had such nuggets as, "I have a sweet tooth, love my strawberry twizzlers and cheesecake jelly beans."

Without thinking twice, Mr. Khalfa says, he copied Mr. Matteo's prose because it also fit him to a tee. "That guy should be proud," says Mr. Khalfa, of Largo, Fla., who runs an auto-glass business. "In France, in the fashion business, when you see something that looks good, you take it and you copy it."

Mr. Khalfa caught the eye of preschool teacher Marjorie Coon, 48. They exchanged emails, and Ms. Coon wanted to meet Mr. Khalfa in person. Then she discovered he had copied the profile of Mr. Matteo, by coincidence her friend. She let Mr. Khalfa know she knew and dumped him. "I felt he was less than honest, a manipulator and downright stupid," says Ms. Coon, of Largo, Fla. Mr. Matteo wasn't too happy, either. "I'm not Cyrano de Bergerac," he says, referring to the 19th-century play about a man penning love letters for a rival.


The WSJ article also says some people even pay for profiles from sources like the TheProfileCoach.com. At least that is better than stealing. More discussion about these assinine profile plagiarists can be found at Jossip, Digital Hive, be2, Captivating Connections and PSFK.

Posted on March 21, 2008
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