Fed up with online dating

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!With social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace now in the digital dating mix, there are plenty of new chances to meet the right — and wrong — people online.
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Grayson Currin, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, who describes himself [...]

Will WooMe Work?

WooMe puts users in quick, 1-on-1 video conferencing sessions during which they can determine whether to pursue a relationship (romantic or otherwise) with the stranger on the other end. While the site is not explicitly marketed as a dating site, it competes quite directly with SpeedDate
The online speed date seems to be the new big [...]

CrazyBlindDate copies Collaboradate “Group Date”

Sex and spontaneity are the two magic ingredients for a new startup called CrazyBlindDate, which launches today in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco after beta testing in Austin, Texas for over a month.
The idea behind CrazyBlindDate is to bring the scheme of blind dating to the web. Sign up, answer some personal questions [...]

IAC - The Breakup

InterActiveCorp (IAC), parent company of Ask.com, Bloglines, Evite, and dozens of other popular Web sites, has decided to split itself into five separate, publicly traded companies. The hotter of IAC’s properties (it’s so-called “media & advertising” and “emerging businesses” groups) will remain under the IAC brand, while slower growth units HSN, Ticketmaster, and LendingTree will [...]

Collaboradate.com no more…

Some big things to announce.
Collaboradate.com is going away But wait! Not to worry, just the name is going away. I’m excited to announce that I’ve brought in a partner, and this was the first order of business.
We are not set on the new name yet, but over the past few years I’ve been stockpiling [...]

The biggest news in Online Dating and Social Networking in years

The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight.
Other “founding partners” of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, [...]