The Washington Post has a pretty informative piece about how texting has become a weapon in dating violence. “Textual harassment” (not a huge fan of the name, I must say) has been on the up and up, whether it be used to double and …
Meetcha.com , a new social dating site for adults, today announced its launch into the Portland, Maine market. Meetcha makes dating more fun and less pressured by offering adults one-on-one online matching plus PODS — People Out Doing Stuff(TM), where people with shared interests meet in groups at great places. To mark its debut in Portland, Meetcha is challenging Portland singles to join its “Whip it Up” flash POD this Saturday, June 19 at Post Office Park at noon. The event is free, open to the public and no registration is required. Full disclaimer: Meetcha’s parent company is my landlord but that doesn’t change the fact that the over-40 dating market seems to be warming up to F2F meetups (PODS) to bring members together.
It’s only a matter of time before dating sites begin to mine social media and the social graph at Facebook and Twitter for people’s tastes and preferences. Infochimps has done the heavy lifting and offers services ranging from the free “Baboon” tier with a limit of 100,000 API calls per month to the “Golden Ape” tier that costs $4000 per month with a limit of 15 million monthly API calls. The datasets upon which these calls are based are updated monthly, although Infochimps indicates they will soon update these weekly. In an interview with ReadWriteWeb in April, Infochimps co-founder Flip Kromer said that he hoped Infochimps can demonstrate the benefits of building “awesome stuff,” including apps and analytics that can “democratize access” to information about users’ interests and behaviors. With the release of the API, it looks as though Infochimps has made a move to do just that. Via ReadWriteWeb .
This is old but great. A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean? The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails any more.
Researchers were able to use to tree-ring dating —known as dendrochronology—to verify the age of an historic residence in St. Augustine, Florida. The project has shown that the technique can be used successfully in regions with hot and …
When my friend Doug suggested I try Internet dating , I scoffed and slugged him in the arm with my purse. “When’s the last time you got any?” he muttered stone-faced. I was sold. “I’ll make the drinks. You make my profile.”
If you’re a subscriber to a pay dating site, you are an important (though unwitting) part of that site’s customer acquisition team. Of course, they don’t want to show you too many ghosts, because you’ll get frustrated and quit, …
Dating – or in Friedman’s case, fucking – is one thing, but once you get into a long-term relationship with someone, you’ve got considerably more invested in the relationship, and if you have feelings for the person, you’re far less …
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