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'Dating Site' Lifts 250K Facebook Profiles

Creators say their work explores online identity

(Newser) - A website calling itself a dating service managed to launch with a whopping 250,000 profiles—by scraping data from public Facebook profiles. Lovely-Faces.com took names, images, and locations from thousands of users and used an algorithm to place them in categories like “Easy Going,” “Smug,...

Match.com Hooks Up With OkCupid
Match.com Hooks Up
With OkCupid
Feb 2, 2011 6:34 PM CST

Match.com Hooks Up With OkCupid

Match.com pays $50M for its free-service rival

(Newser) - Match.com has bought rival OkCupid for $50 million, consolidating its hold on the online dating market, Mashable reports. The acquisition provides Match.com—a high-end service that charges its 5.8 million users—with access to lots of new customers. OkCupid is a mostly free site with 3.5...

Online Dating: Laws, Sites Aim to Ferret Out Mr. Really Wrong

Internet security companies seek to protect online dating

(Newser) - With 20 million Americans using online dating sites, how can you be sure that your prospective date isn't married? Or, say, a mass murderer? New online security services—such as MyMatchChecker.com , Date Check , and the Instant National Criminal Search —are offering background checks on people using the nearly...

Behold, a Pre-WikiLeaks Assange's Online Dating Profile

'Harry Harrison' boasted that he has 'asian teengirl stalkers'

(Newser) - Before he was the polarizing head of an organization bent on releasing classified documents, Julian Assange was just a single 36-year-old man calling himself “Harry Harrison” and looking for a “siren for love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy.” That is, if this OKCupid dating profile is...

12 Oddly Specific Dating Sites

Where can a girl go to find someone who will love her cat?

(Newser) - Match.com just not doing it for you? Perhaps the type of significant other you're looking for is just a little too specific. The Week rounds up a dozen sites that cater to picky daters:
  • Date British Guys : As the site's name implies, this is the place to find your
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Site Lets Nerds Pay Girls to Game (Wink, Wink)

GameCrush connects lonely males to gaming females

(Newser) - A site where users pay to play video games against young female opponents is open for business, Mashable reports. Though GameCrush has been in a public beta stage since March, the site formally launched today. Players—generally, men—pay 60 cents a minute to play games on Xbox Live or...

Some Cameras Make You Look Ugly
Some Cameras Make You Look Ugly
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Aug 15, 2010 6:45 AM CDT

Some Cameras Make You Look Ugly

Kodak, Nikon, and Motorola take unflattering shots, study finds

(Newser) - Can your choice of camera make you look more attractive? Yes, according to a study by dating site OKCupid.com. Certain cameras were linked to profile photos considered by users to be the most attractive—and those considered the least attractive. The winning cameras included the Panasonic Micro 4/3s, the...

Dating Site Matches Up Book Lovers

Meet someone else who hated 'The Da Vinci Code'

(Newser) - Tired of meeting up with a girl from Match.com only to discover—horrors!—she’s into Nicholas Sparks ? Sign up for Alikewise , a dating site that matches you based on your taste in literature. It’s the latest in a string of niche dating sites like Cupidtino...

Meddling Moms Get Dating Site
 Meddling Moms Get Dating Site 
Jul 13, 2010 12:34 PM CDT

Meddling Moms Get Dating Site

New feature makes it even easier to set up your kid

(Newser) - Concerned moms who constantly set up their single kids with—well, almost anyone now have a dating site of their very own. Geri Brin launched the “Date My Single Kid” feature on FabOverFifty.com after many unsuccessful attempts at matching up her son Colby with, among others, “the...

'Hotties Only' Dating Site Starts Virtual Sperm Bank

Non-members can use service to get beautiful genes

(Newser) - Controversial dating site Beautifulpeople.com —the one that kicked off 5,000 "fatties" for gaining weight over the holidays —has started a "virtual sperm bank" to share the genetic material of its attractive clientele. Both members and non-members can use the new fertility forum to contact...

New Trend in Online Dating: Outsourcing

Virtual assistants do all the work for you, even set up dates

(Newser) - Are you an executive too busy to scan OkCupid profiles? Are you a shy person who wishes online dating could be even less personal? Then you, my friend, need the services of Virtual Dating Assistants , a full-scale Internet-dating outsourcing company. Like a modern-day Cyrano, Virtual Dating Assistants—or one of...

Apple Fans Spawn Own Dating Site
 Apple Fans Spawn 
 Own Dating Site 
TECH SNOBS IN LOVE
May 5, 2010 10:25 AM CDT

Apple Fans Spawn Own Dating Site

Tired of dating boring Dell users? Cupidtino is for you

(Newser) - For those who can't imagine locking lips with anyone who taps key on an H-P, soon you can ensure that you only date other Apple fanboys or fangirls, thanks to Cupidtino . Cupid-what? If you can’t quite figure out the dating site’s name, that’s because you're not a...

Why It's Time to Take Online Dating Seriously

Infographic shows how far industry has come

(Newser) - It's time to take online dating seriously. Seriously. It's now a $1.049 billion a year industry used by 40 million Americans—236 of whom get married every day, according eHarmony. That would amount to 2% of all US marriages, notes this infographic from OnlineSchools.org. Other fun facts:

Trial Looms for 'Black Widow of the Web'

Kanae Kijima allegedly swindled, killed at least 4 men she met online

(Newser) - Japan is bracing itself for the upcoming trial of a woman who allegedly swindled dozens of men she met online—and killed at least four of them. Dubbed the “Konkatsu Killer” by the media for the konkatsu (marriage-hunting) sites she frequented, Kanae Kijima reportedly set up each death to...

Cops: Con Man Scammed $140K From Online Dates

Posed as multimillionaire pal of George Bush

(Newser) - A New York lothario posing as a multimillionaire Navy commander and confidante of George Bush scammed close to $140,000 from women he met on online dating sites, according to Westchester authorities. After cultivating relationships with women met on sites like Match.com, Jesus Nasser asked for loans, explaining that...

Dating Profile Picture Myths, Busted

Why skin wins...but only sometimes

(Newser) - To find Mr. Right online, make sure your dating profile pic is a smiley one, right? Wrong. Dating site OKCupid.com reviewed 7,000 photos uploaded by love-hungry ladies and gents and analyzed them based on the number of messages and conversations their subjects received. It breaks down the four...

Dating Site for Hotties Culls Fatties
 Dating Site 
 for Hotties 
 Culls Fatties 
LIVING TOO LARGE
Jan 5, 2010 1:48 PM CST

Dating Site for Hotties Culls Fatties

BeautifulPeople members saw holiday pudge, weren't having it

(Newser) - Some 5,000 members of the online dating site BeautifulPeople.com are members no more after their discerning compatriots booted them for beefing up over the holidays. “Vigilant members” of the community, which has a strict “ugly people” ban, noticed a slew of photos over the New Year...

Truly Wacky Online Dating Sites


 Truly Wacky Online Dating Sites 
Oct 25, 2009 10:08 AM CDT

Truly Wacky Online Dating Sites

From vampire lovers to geeks to punk rockers, a site for everyone

(Newser) - If the matches you’re finding on eHarmony are too vanilla, never fear: There’s a dating site out there for you, and Julie Gerstein of Lemondrop rounds up the quirkiest of the quirky:
  • If you wear a lot of black: Find your “own personal Satan” at Gothic Match.
...

Shuttering Mags, Conde Nast Turns to ... Online Dating?

Publishing giant makes 'very bizarre' venture into new business

(Newser) - OK, so Gourmet wasn't working out, seven staffers at Glamour were just given the boot, and the remaining mags in Conde Nast's stable are slashing up to 25% of their budgets. But obviously the time is ripe for Conde Nast to launch…an online dating site, the New York Daily ...

Even in Recession, NYC Best for Singles
 Even in Recession, 
 NYC Best for Singles 
OPINION
Jul 28, 2009 3:48 PM CDT

Even in Recession, NYC Best for Singles

(Newser) - New York may be expensive and unemployed, but high marks for “coolness” and online dating participation have it atop this year’s Forbes list of best cities for singles. As the economy stifles ambition, the dating number has become more significant. “When things are tough, core needs are...

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