Romance is in the air….yes it’s Valentine’s Day! If you are invoking the powers of Cupid, trying to clinch that relationship, hoping for a successful outcome, I wish you all the very, very best and may your dreams come true!

Alas, Chinese Valentine’s Day is not till August (last year it was 16thAugust) so I have nothing to write on that front, however, the stars for next week augurs well for everyone.

A quick scan of the week ahead if you are celebrating Valentine’s Day:

Aquarius:
don’t assume outcomes, talk to loved ones to be sure.

Pisces:
Don’t be too compliant or you may sacrifice too much and be dissatisfied.

Aries:
You may lose support of those around you if you are inflexible. Get them to help.

Taurus:
You may need to adapt to changes where a relationship is making you insecure. Gemini: Keep an open mind if you are searching for answers to big questions.

Cancer:
There are ripples on emotional issues this week, keep talking on a 1-2-1 to those concerned.

Leo:
Some uncertainty but be patient, issues may clear up by the end of the week.

Virgo:
Be careful not to be indiscreet even if you are bored. Gossip could result in bad outcomes.

Libra:
Get help if you need skills that you don’t have. You could develop those practical skills you need but ‘shout’ if you need help.

Scorpio:
Nobody likes to do more than their fair share of household chores so set up a rota. Don’t get grumpy!

Sagittarius:
You will be tempted to take risks. Don’t.

Capricorn:
Be practical. If you have helped by doing more than you should have, think again!

That is the Zodiac for the week ahead, hope you enjoy!

I recently came across a survey that was carried out on the public to find out what their idea of the ‘10 Commandments’(as in the Bible) were for this century.
Apparently the 1st commandment is ‘To treat others as you would have them treat you.’

2nd commandments have not changed which are: Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not kill.

There is another one that tells you ‘to look after those who are less fortunate than you’ but the most surprising of all was the one that tells you ‘to look after the environment!’ That is a great one! I really like that!!

The last one was to decree that ‘everyone should look after their family, their children, their extended family and themselves.’

So if you are intending to tie the knot or are starting a family or looking for a soul mate, I hope what I have shared with you will become useful.

Well that’s all folks, until next time.

May all your Valentine wishes come true!
YY

Yvonne Yang

Tags: online love, valentine dating, valentine horoscope

Article Subject: SA users love online dating - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato

Article Link: http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/internet/sa-users-love-online-dating-1.1025833

Article Rating: 2.0 (out of 5)

Website: JoburgDating.com

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This post proves how articles or press releases should NOT be written. Firstly the title refers to SA which upon further reading is supposed to read South Africa, I wander how many people would have guessed that. Secondly it repeats the same information in two paragraphs.

Here is my summary;

Joburgdating.com, a South African dating website, has been experiencing a surge of growth for its online service and this has been happening across South Africa’s internet dating industry which has been seeing growth from year to year. The primary reason according to Telecom Trands in Africa is due to an increase in the internet user population of 6 million with about 550k of these users having visited a dating site according to Comscore and Hitwise.

JoburgDating is introducing new features to their website by launching a brand new site in time for Valentine 2011 which sees a surge of internet dating traffic before and after Valentines Day.

joburgdating - south african online dating site experiencing growth

Tags: internet dating traffic, joburgdating.com, south africa dating

Article Subject: Online Dating: The Power of Romantic Uncertainty..

Article Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/online-dating_b_813188.html

Article Rating: 4.0 (out of 5)

Website: various

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This is a very interesting post that discusses the old question of whether the power of uncertainty makes one appear more attractive.

A study was conducted at the University of Virginia where a selection of females having their own facebook profiles were shown facebook profiles of men. They were told that a proportion of these men found their profiles more attractive and another portion, not so attractive and a third group of men who were undecided. The women were then told to examine these groups of men and their behavior and responses while browsing the men were noted.

The results showed that women naturally preferred men who liked them but they were more attracted to the men who were undecided. The results clearly showed from the test that women found the mystery men more appealing. The scientist call this the “pleasure of uncertainty”.

My conclusion: this is not surprising because men by instinctively makes their initial intentions unclear when they like a woman which usually heightens the woman’s interest. By coming out too strong or too feeble creates a certain perception in women and it may be down to the biological wiring of women and how they pick their chosen mates.

women can find uninterested men as attractive

Tags: hard to get, mystery men, romantic uncertainty

Article Subject: More helpful tips in online dating

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

With Valentine’s Day just round the corner, here are more handy tips to make you an online dating expert.

The suggestions I have seen repeated time and time again is to be honest and be truthful in your profile. Just think about it, if you were to meet the other person and you ended up liking that person, you will have to do some serious explaining about your ‘fibs’ and this may lead to distrust and in the worst case he/she drops you. It may sound appealing to fib about something just to make sure you pull in those profiles but at the end of the day it’s not worth it.

Instead of telling fibs, why not just simply make the rest of your profile more interesting. Just to give you some example, lets say have a pet peev about your age, why not say something like “I maybe (age), but I am fit as a fiddle and love sports”.
Another example, “I am working hard to keep in shape and hopefully my partner will want the same”

Another important aspect of online dating, is to be persistent and treat it with passion so you will enjoy looking over profiles, responding to emails, receiving emails and in this way you will most definitely increase your chances of finding a great partner.

date with passion when it comes to online dating then you will love it

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Article Subject: The things to come in online dating - Online Dating Briefs by Dr. Dato

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

This is an independent post on the subject of what we can expect to see in the online dating scene in the coming years ahead.

The shape of the online industry has changed over the last decade with the birth of match.com, eharmony and some of the free dating sites such as plentyoffish.com, jumpdates.com, okCupid etc.

Today a majority of these sites have a rich set of features which makes online dating more easier to use than before. We don’t have any of the clunky features many years back on search, instant messaging and other communication tools. The years ahead will provide some exciting features to the end user as well as providing increased challenges to the dating company. Technology is fashioning our lifestyle to such a degree that our expectations are correspondingly higher and thus online dating companies will have to be more creative and innovating to meet the demands of its end user.

Although match technology has been around with us for a while it has not worked sufficiently well for us to feel completely enamored by it. This area will need drastic improvements. Take Google for example, under the hood of the largest search engine in the world, Google is examining human behavior at atomistic levels and this equally needs to be translated to the online dating front. In the future our ’search results’ will be almost humanistically correct to the degree where we can assume AI (artificial intelligence) has finally been born. A barely unheard of company that started in the mid 90s doing data-mining is now one of the fastest growing companies in the world, the company is called Autonomy. They simply are parsing data at a much more intelligent level and this is what we need to do for any types of website that makes use of data. The important point is that we need to convert and make sense of this data in a humanistic way and this implies building highly efficient AI systems and algorithms that we are only scraping through today.

we are likely to see more AI being applied to dating sites

Tags: dating algorithms, future of dating, online dating changes