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

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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.

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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.

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Look and Feel

The look and feel of the website is not too appealing. The background is gray and at the front is a black and white photograph of two ladies of which one is being handed a cheek’d card by a gent. On the top of the page, you have the usual Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr and Foursquare links and buttons. Sign up and activate card buttons are also located at the top.

There are no banner advertisements on the site page.

Registration Process

For registration to the site you just need to give your account information like username and password.

Once logged in, you can browse freely around the website and go to other pages where you will see the user menus arranged all at the top.

Below the page you will see the photo and profile completion forms but if you do not wish to give more information about yourself you can skip this step. This is one of the simplest types of registration process that I have ever seen.

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Photo Profile Section

Profile photographs can be uploaded and added from your computer itself and have not found any strict rules regarding the types of photos that can be uploaded.

The site can be found on many other social networking sites including twitter and facebook but unfortunately you cannot import photos from those sites.

It is not necessary that you should upload your picture only, you can upload celebrity pictures also as I managed to upload them and succeeded.

Privacy Policy

The privacy policy of this site is stated in their policy link where the website does not take any responsibility of user content or information and they may change this policy from time to time without user notification.

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