Jan 15
OKCupid’s new blind date app came out today, to some fanfare and probably a little more mockery. But it’s hit a snag: Apparently, it was coughing up users’ emails and birth dates for anyone who bothered to dig for them. More »
Jan 15
OKCupid’s New Blind Date App Aims to Find You Love (Or Random Sex) on the Fly
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It’s 3PM on a Tuesday, and your friend bails on dinner. What are you going to do? Try this: Fire up OKCupid’s new app, CrazyBlindDate, and make yourself some romantical plans for the evening. Maybe you’ll find love. Maybe you’ll get laid. Maybe you’ll meet an insane person. Adventure! The app, which launches today in Android and iOS flavors, aims to be your go-to-source for last-minute-love. More »
Jan 02
Researchers say that if you want to land a date online this year, your best chance will be tonight at 8:52 PM. Why 8:52 PM? Because the combination of going back to work and New Year’s resolutions will make millions of people sign onto their Internet dating sites looking for a date. The more people online, the better your chances. You have less than an hour to find someone! Go! More »
Dec 09
Canoodle Dating Site Finds a Suitable Pair By Pairing up Your Facebook Likes
Posted in: Today's ChiliOnline dating sites are a dime a dozen nowadays. In order to get noticed, a site really has to up their game and offer something that others don’t. For example, Trekkie Dating is a site that specializes in pairing Star Trek fans with other fans.
Another example is Canoodle, which pairs up its users based on their Facebook ‘Likes’.
That obviously isn’t the only criteria they’re looking at, but it’s one of them.
It might seem silly at the outset, but it’s a pretty sensible feature if you think about it. Many people are faced with the pressure of creating a really good profile so that other users checking out their page will be interested in them.
This is where the ‘Like’ matching feature comes in handy. Because aside from a good profile, users can now try to find their match based on similar pages and interests that they’ve ‘liked’ on the popular social network.
What do you think?
[via BuzzFeed]
Nov 15
Online dating, like real life dating, can get a little skeevy because people are lame and pervy and also, lame and pervy. So to see the type of lame and pervy responses that a cute girl would get while on a dating service like OKCupid, a guy created a fake profile with a picture of a cute girl and BATSHIT INSANE CRAZY information. How did the guys take it? They loved it! More »
Oct 23
It’s not totally unlike online dating but Noriko Higashi, a programmer at a social gaming company, posted a request for a boyfriend on GitHub, the social coding platform, outlining what she wants in a partner. If you can code, you have a chance at love. Bonus points for running your own server. More »
Oct 19
Trekkie Dating Site Helps Geeks Boldly Go Where Non-Trekkies Go All the Time
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We all need love, and finding someone with common interests is pretty key to making that happen. Why risk ridicule from wearing a Worf mask in your Match.com profile picture? You want site where your geekiness isn’t judged, but celebrated. More »
Oct 11
There are a lot of dating sites on the web but none like Trekkie Dating. I think you can pretty much tell what the site is about and who it’s for based from its name alone.
If you haven’t much luck on other dating sites because the people you met there just weren’t into Star Trek, then it seems like your prayers might have just been answered with Trekkie Dating. It’s a dating community that’s geared towards helping Trekkies meet other like-minded Trekkies.
Never mind where they’re from or what they look like, as long as they love Star Trek as much as you do, right? And that’s spoken like a true Trekkie.
See anyone you like?
[via Geekologie]
Oct 10
Avner Geller has created a series of hilarious posters that are inspired by the type of things you always see in someone’s OKCupid profile. Geller based the posters around typical responses to ‘you should message me if…’, ‘on a typical Friday night I’m…’ and ‘six things I could never do without’. More »
Oct 09
OKCupid Wants to Match You With a Roommate You Bone Once and Never Speak to Again [Websites]
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One time I went on an OKCupid date with a guy who ordered hot wings, licked his fingers, and wiped a fountain of sweat off his forehead with a paper napkin. Needless to say, I never went out with him again. It was a very dark time. And if you’re at an equally low point with your living situation, the people over at the most desperate dating site on the internet want to match you with your next roommate. More »
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