| Vumber Launches Virtual Phone Number Service on Paltalk.com
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Vumber (www.vumber.com), the secure, two-way disposable calling service, today announced a new partnership with Paltalk (www.paltalk.com), the leading real-time, video-based community with over 4 million active members, to provide privacy-ensured virtual phone numbers to its user base. "Online dating and chat groups continue to be a fast growing trend, yet some participants are reluctant to share their personal phone numbers online," said Vumber Co-Founder Cliff Wener. "With Vumber, Paltalk members will have more privacy, control and freedom when providing phone numbers to one another." According to a study by Pew Internet and American Life Project, 11% of all American Internet-using adults - about 16 million people - say they have gone to an online dating website or other site where they can meet people online.
Gigablast Launches New Search Engine with 'Freshness Dating' and ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SMX West -- Gigablast, Inc., (http://www.gigablast.com), an early pioneer in internet search, today announced the beta launch of the new Gigablast search engine and website at http://www.gigablast.com. The new service provides users with the power to search the web -- quickly and intuitively -- for the most relevant results from the most relevant dates. Rather than merely reporting the date that a particular web page was last "seen" by the search engine, Gigablast's patent-pending "freshness dating" algorithms estimate the last date that relevant changes were made to the web page. This innovative technology gives users unparalleled flexibility to find the right results from the right time. As an added benefit, Gigablast is implementing the most privacy-conscious personal data policy of the major search engines.
Online dating site offers DNA matching
AN online dating website that compares the DNA of its customers promises a more satisfying sex life and healthier children for couples who are genetically matched. Scientific Match helps singles find their "genetic match" by analysing their DNA and recommending a partner who has different immune system genes than themselves for a subscription fee of $US1995 ($2323) per year. "Welcome to a new era of human relationships. We're the only introduction service that creates matches with actual physical chemistry," the website's homepage says. After signing up to the website, clients are sent a DNA collection kit containing cheek-swabs and a pre-paid return envelope. Their saliva samples are then processed and they are matched with other users whose genetic profiles are different to their own.
Qld woman charged over internet scam
POLICE have issued a warning against online scams after charging a 54-year-old Brisbane woman with receiving and forwarding stolen property. Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, from the Queensland Police Service Computer Crimes Investigation Unit, said the woman allegedly asked to have stolen goods delivered to her home at Sunnybank, in Brisbane's south, before forwarding them to Cambodia. The woman was believed to have become involved in an internet relationship with a man in Cambodia whom she met on a dating website. Det Supt Hay said overseas-based criminals could spend months engaging people online to cultivate their trust before asking them to send money or goods. People who receive stolen or illegally obtained property and send it overseas would be prosecuted and internet users should be alert to possible scammers, he said.
Finding a Common Thread in the Online Haystack
Disaboom, which launched in the fall of 2007 and left beta last week, is a startup to watch. Along with acquiring the Lovebyrd.com dating site for people living with disabilities, Disaboom has apparently impressed Madison Avenue, as its partners list includes Ford, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Avis and RE/MAX. Free Report from Keynote Systems 2007 Trends and Observations of the Mobile and Connected World examines how technologies, from the Web to the mobile phone, are specifically impacting key vertical industries, from financial services to new media. Download yours here. .
Online colonel seemed like a catch
Wendy McKay thought she had met someone special when the Marine colonel deployed to Iraq started chatting with her on the online dating Web site. Someone claiming to be Col. Richard Bartch told her he was in Iraq for the first time after volunteering for duty. And like her, he was divorced. Chats quickly led to e-mails and within a day he sent her photos of himself in uniform. In one, he stood in his woodland digital-patterned utilities, proudly holding up his Bronze Star citation and medal. In another, he's lounging in desert cammies in a chair, with his service pistol holster pulled taut across his broad shoulders just next to his name tape. His e-mails were romantic, echoing the sentiment of a schmaltzy Hallmark greeting card: "I went to sleep last night with a smile because I knew I'd be dreaming of you ...
Israel Jewish Singles Dating Site Expands
It's unclear how many couples have met and married via the Internet, but experts agree that a boom in Websites catering to Jewish singles has broadened the relatively narrow opportunities open to them, especially those in small communities, or without any community at all. Virtual mating rituals reflect real world changes. First came the online chat rooms, sites for personal ads and dating services, where members can post their addresses, photos, and personal messages without committing to commit. Think online dating is just for the hip-hop, hip-hugger generation? Think again. These days, you're almost as likely to find an AARP member surfing for love on Israel Anglo Singles, the most popular Jewish Anglo virtual dating hotspots in Israel. In addition to those in their 20's and 30's, there now are hundreds of Israel Jewish singles over 40 using their keyboards to meet their next match.
FYI: Be careful seeking a soulmate online
Happy Valentine's Day.
If you are looking for love online, do your homework. According to the Better Business Bureau, complaints against matchmaking and online dating services are on the rise.
Many people said they were matched with singles who did not meet their specified wishes, including whether they were smokers, educated, religious, lived too far away or, in some cases, were still married.
BBB recommends the following tips when considering a matchmaking site:
If you've just signed up for a matchmaking site and you suddenly have three people contacting you before you've even put up a profile or picture, reconsider joining.
Ask yourself if you've been on for a reasonable amount of time to actually have real people see your profile and decide to contact you.
Match.com Eyes Social Scenes at Facebook, MySpace
Online dating site Match.com has made its own resolution for 2008: to get out and meet more people, or in this case, potential subscribers. Match is in the midst of a foray into Internet social networks, testing an application for online hangout Facebook, and seeks growth in new vehicles for its subscription service, according to Chief Executive Thomas Enraght-Moony.
"We're extending Match to wherever people are," Moony told Reuters in an interview in New York on Monday. "MySpace has announced their platform initiative, we're exploring that. If they opened up the Nintendo Wii (video game console), I'd probably do that as well." After building sites for lonely hearts in 37 countries, Match posted slower global subscriber growth at the end of 2007 from a year ago as it fends off competition from rival services, as well as from social networks themselves.
The hottest trends in online dating
Internet dating has been great for the industry. It has warmed an entire generation of users to the prospect of getting help in dating and paying for that help. It's like a giant sales funnel. At the top are generic dating sites and at the bottom are expensive matchmaking services. Online dating does take time and money. If you have considerably more bucks, you can go straight to the matchmaking service and have a date with somebody who is compatible right away. What new technologies are you seeing in online dating? One of the biggest innovations is avatar-based instant messaging. There's a lot of talk about how Web sites like Second Life will impact online dating. I've seen statistics that 80% of people will have an online virtual identity by 2011. That seems very high to me! One site that's pioneering the use of avatars is OmniDate.com.
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