Dating and owning a business

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Meet Michael Stajer. By all accounts, Stajer has it all: He’s attractive, single and owns a multimillion-dollar company in San Francisco. Sure, Stajer has no problem landing a first date, but subsequent dates and a relationship are more difficult [...]

Google says: In your FACEbook with it’s new API

Google’s goal - to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%.
The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s [...]

HotOrNot not hot on free

After being overrun with spam and fake profiles, Hot Or Not has decided to reverse course and end their free dating experiment. According to an email from founders Jim and James:
“…You also warned us that this would probably lead to more spammers and fake profiles. You were right, this is exactly [...]

Cougars are on the prowl

Older woman seduces younger man. Sound familiar? It’s a scene from the new classic “Wedding Crashers.”

Actress Demi Moore is 15 years older than her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher. But high-profile Hollywood couples like Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (12 years her junior) — who met and began dating while filming an on-screen romance in the [...]

Mobile Dating Grows Up

According to some recent snooping around by Juniper Research, mobile dating services will bring in a hefty $1 billion from the lovelorn by 2010. This year 40 million people are expected to use mobile dating services such as chat rooms for singles. That number will surge to 260 million by 2012, creating quite an opportunity [...]

Booming Boomers

If you rocked out to Bruce Springsteen, perfected your runway walk to that of Twiggy’s, and spent hours playing with Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Ouija Boards, then you are probably a Baby Boomer. Thirty percent of the 85 million Boomers in the US and Canada (those born between 1946 -1964) are back in the singles scene [...]

The Collaboradate Blog Goes Mobile

Read the Collaboradate blog on your iphone. You can now get your online dating news on the go! Just point your iphone browser to the normal address of http://www.collaboradate.com/blog/ and the display will automatically be formated to your iphone. If you don’t have one yet, you may want to consider it… more to come on [...]

Collaboradate Dating Directory.

I’ve added a directory to the blog to help me keep track of the 100’s (1000’s if you count the ones that are thrown up in a day or two) of dating sites on the net. When you get a chance please stop by and add your link if you are a site owner or [...]

Date dorks with plastic

Enter UK based First Move, which just emailed us. It’s a dating site where you create a private profile. You then buy black or hot pink credit-card type cards that have your First Move user code on them - they cost about $2 each. When you see someone you want to date in the real [...]

Google VC

Just as it has done to companies in the software, publishing, and advertising industries, Google is becoming a thorn in the side of venture capitalists. The owner of the world’s largest Web search engine is scooping up young tech outfits for a relative pittance, giving itself first dibs on hot-growth technologies and in some cases [...]