Just days after OKCupid called out Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich over his support of a ban on gay marra
Posted in: Today's ChiliJust days after OKCupid called out Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich
Just days after OKCupid called out Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich
Today, most tech companies are polluting the internet with stupid pranks. But there’s one brave statement being made on the internet that isn’t a dumb joke at all. OKCupid is blocking Mozilla Firefox users
I was excited about this one. It had been a while since I’d dusted off the old OkCupid profile. I’d been working a lot and thinking about my ex too much, and this girl looked cute. So, when she actually agreed to a date, I was thrilled. This one felt important!
Mathematicians aren’t renowned for their social skills. But in a quest to find love, Chris McKinlay from UCLA realised he could use his analytical skills to his advantage—by hacking OkCupid.
Everyone you know has an online dating profile and if they say they don’t they are lying to you. We can poke fun at it all we want, but there’s actually a mathematical formula behind the digital match-making. More »
If you’re a female with a pulse and a profile on OKCupid, you’ve gotten a molesty message or two. Maybe you ignore. Maybe you say you’re not interested. Here’s a better tactic: just respond with non-sequitur spam-sounding tweets from @Horse_ebooks. More »
Graph Search, which we’re going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write “Graph Search,” is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over its rivals—which companies lose the most? More »
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 »
What do you do when your iPhone is stolen? Cry? Get a new one? Scream at the sky? How about tracking down the thief by luring him to a sexy date over OkCupid and then threatening him with a hammer so he gives it back? That last one worked out pretty well for Nadav Nirenberg. More »