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Datemyschool - A new facebook type dating site? - Online Dating Briefs by Dr Dato
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Post Subject: Datemyschool - a facebook type dating site? - Online Dating Briefs by Dr Dato
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
This new website called Datemyschool.com was created by Columbian MBA students Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer back in Nov. 2010. They had received $500,000 from private investors and went live with the site aiming first at Columbia and New York University.
The site has now over 7,000 users including people who signed up from the Fashion Institute of Technology as someone from the inside was told that there were lots of attractive women who would be good matches for some of the guys from Columbia.
Although, we haven’t reviewed the website in details, the site allows you to be selective as to how visible you want to make your profile ie. visible to law, business or engineering as examples. The focus tends to be on matching people who are ambitious and career minded people judging by the sites target for elite universities. A review of this site to follow shortly, but I would need an .edu email for that 
new dating site catering to grad students of elite USA universities
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Tags: career inspired dating, college dating site, columbia university, datemyschool, facebook type dating
New online dating site - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Post Subject: New online dating site
Post Link: http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/onthetown/2011/02/new-online-dating-site
Rating: 2.5 (out of 5)
Website: howaboutwe.com
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
Not another one you say, yep.. it’s another dating site in this PR release that has been launched for the Baltimore/DC area. Business must surely be going well for the online dating industry judging by the number of dating sites that are coming into this market along with spectacular yearly profits reported by Match.
There is no escaping that online dating does really work and it’s providing a growing number of people who have lost the stigma of finding dates online a long time ago and they are now perfectly content to be socializing on Facebook, Twittering to friends and so why not online dating!
The concept behind HowAboutWe is interesting as it sort of borders between a website that focuses on specific interest groups but yet gives you autonomy like many of the other online dating sites. Basically users submit ideas for good dating ideas such as “How about we…grab turkish cuisine, try hookah, watch belly dancing…” and the user will receive proposals of such activities from others in their inbox who share similar interests. If any of the ideas seems good, the user can then check out their profiles and get to know them.
We in fact have done a review of the HowAboutWe dating site in our Startup Online Dating Sites review section.
howaboutwe dating site catering to dating groups in baltimore
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Tags: activities for dating, baltimore dating, HowaboutWe.com, ideas for dating, new dating site
LuvAtFirstTweet: A Twitter-Based Online Dating Service - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Post Subject: LuvAtFirstTweet: A Twitter-Based Online Dating Service
Post Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/luvatfirsttweet-twitter-online-dating_n_827630.html
Rating: 2.8 (out of 5)
Website: Luv@FirstTweet
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
This is a post from the new series created by Huffington Post called HuffPostTech, Socialized and allows social startups such as apps, services to websites to be featured here.
Today, the feature is called ‘Luv@FirsTweet’ which as you can guess is a twist in the online dating with the goal of using the speed and ease of Twitter to find pontential dates.
Launched this January, it is a free Twitter-based dating service and eliminates the profile building and browsing typical of many other dating sites according to the founder Jonathan Lehr. How this works, is that you start following luvatfirsttweet account with your own Twitter handle and you respond to any of the daily tweets like “What tv show do you make sure to watch every week?” and you can reply using @replies. In this way the system builds up your profile and according to Lehr it’s perfect for the busy person to build their profile and we can match them to our algorithms.
To get started just visit Luv@FirstTweet’s website, or follow them on @LuvAtFirstTweet. Interesting concept, let’s see how well it does.
twitter type dating service - dating sites gone tweety?
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Tags: Luv@FirstTweet, tweetdating, tweetlove, twitter concept dating, twitter dating site
Online dating: Does everyone lie? - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Article Subject: Online dating: Does everyone lie?
Game Link: http://blogs.ajc.com/misadventures-in-atlanta/2011/02/25/online-dating-does-everyone-lie/?cxntfid=blogs_misadventures_in_atlanta
Rating: 3.0 (out of 5)
Website: none
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
This post has sparked off plenty of user comments and makes for interesting reading on this subject.
The topic of the post is about the recent incident where New York Congressman Chris Lee had a brief encounter with “Leggy Glamazon” whom he met through craigslist website. He had apparently lied about his age and the fact that he was married with children and on top of that he was a congressman.
The question addressed to users were “How can you tell if the person you are dating is actually single?”
Some of the comments are quite frank and also accounts of people’s experience with online dating sites. Everyone has much to say but at the end of the day, it still boils down to the same thing ie. how trusting you can be with another person based on their personality and character and would you want to be in an intimate relationship with that person.
trust is based on much effort on the part of individuals
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Tags: dating personality, online dating conversations, online dating lies, trusting of individuals
Online Dating Website Starts Matchmaking Makeover - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Article Subject: Online Dating Website Starts Matchmaking Makeover
Game Link: http://www.climbthenet.com/online-dating-website-starts-matchmaking-makeover/973
Rating: 2.8 (out of 5)
Website: none
Dr. Dato’s Brief:
This post mentions variations of online dating sites that some of our users are astute to but other may not. I will try to clarify the different systems that are used by the various dating sites out there.
Matching System
These types of dating sites usually have a very lengthy questionnaire that users have to fill in before they can register to their site. It’s not something you can skip because it is this very information that the dating sites will use to pass through their dating algorithms in order to match you to other members on the website. Such dating sites include eHarmony, eVow and a host of others.
Search System
These dating sites allow you to go through a very simplified registration process often takes just a few minutes before you can become a member of these sites. Once you are logged in to the dating site, you are free to browse and search for other members on the website. The search criteria can be by location, age, photo and other options which allows you to limit the returned search to your exact needs. Such dating sites include zoosk, bandoo and more.
Hybrid System
This type of dating system does both of the above. Usually the system will allow you to register fairly quick to the website and you can go to a section where you can also find your matches that has been delivered by the matching algorithm of the site. To get the best results you need to plugin as much information about yourself into the system through their pages like ‘Edit Profile’ or ‘Update Profile’. Such dating sites include Plentyoffish, Jumpdates, Datehookup and more. Some of these sites will deliver your matches via an emil such as Jumpdates.
Hopefully this will help our readers to appreciate the kind of technology that goes on behind the scenes. Watch this space for more information on this subject.
online dating algorithms are used by dating websites to give good matches
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Tags: dating algorithms, hybrid dating sites, match dating site, matching algorithms, search dating site
