Posts Tagged ‘dating’

SpeedDate: Women More Aggressive With Age

SpeedDateHeartAfter analyzing two days of activity – 100,000 online encounters – SpeedDate released data about who on their site is more likely to break the ice to start a first-time online meeting. Findings conclude that 78% of men initiate conversation compared to 22% of women. However, starting at age 42, the number of women initiating conversation dramatically increases to the point that by age 60 women are more likely than men to click first.
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Book Reveals 7 Ways Good Social Media is Like a Good First Date

andreaThe similarities between social media and dating are eye-opening. Listening to relationships expert Andrea Syrtash at the “Branding Your Way to Better Relationships: Using the Tools of Social Media to Make You Irresistible” Sobel Media Internet Week event last, it was obvious that many of the same rules apply online and in our dating lives.

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VidEngage.com Offers Social Networking with Video

Although YouTube is a pretty powerful video uploading and sharing site, it however lacks some social networking features. Despite the great amount of content uploaded and shared on its site, YouTube remains to be just like that – a video uploading and sharing site with some dash of social networking features. New social networking site VidEngage.com offers something which YouTube doesn’t – a full-featured social networking site with emphasis on video content. Read more

Anyone With a Heartbeat (DNA) Can Find Love

Poor Lenny. My buddy has been single for quite some time, and I don’t think it’s because his name is Lenny. He’s hit up all the mainstream dating Websites. From Match to PlentyOfFish to eHarmony, it’s been an experiment that has turned up nothing but depleted bank accounts, Russian spammers and an empty heart.

Well his heart might be empty, but as long as his mouth has some saliva, he’s in luck. Meet GenePartner, the Switzerland-based outfit that hopes to take the romance out of finding a partner by breaking it down to genes and chromosomes. Read more