| Sentinel Lunchtime Blog (Valentine's Day Edition): The laws of love online
It's been a while since one of my singles blogs have been written and posted. Those of you out there who actually read these things may have wondered if I'd stopped writing because I'm no longer single. Sadly, that's not the case.Today is Valentine's Day and I, like many others, am single. If it weren't for writing this blog, I would have conveniently "forgotten" today was the day of love, flowers, candy and candlelight. However, while perusing stories from the Associated Press, I came across a relationships article detailing a new law in New Jersey requiring online dating sites to perform background checks on its users. As an alum of online dating, my interest was piqued.My first thought was, well, that's a good idea — Internet dating can be dangerous. Then I got to thinking and realized, as the article points out, background checks are pointless in the world of dating.Think about it.
Sexy setting for February's Schmooze and Booze
Schmooze and Booze has teamed up with online dating site Stag and Dove for its next networking event on February 7.
A free drink will be offered to guests on arrival and 100 three-month memberships for Stag and Dove will be up for grabs on the night.
The venue for the evening is Amora, the London headquarters of the Academy of Sex and Relationships based in The Trocadero Centre, so attendees should be prepared for some risqué content.
For more details contact Helen Lewis at www.schmoozeandbooze.co.uk.
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eHarmony.com sued for excluding homosexuals
LOS ANGELES, Calif. A Los Angeles woman has sued the popular online dating site eHarmony.com, claiming she was discriminated against based on her sexual orientation when the Web site refused to pair her with another woman. eHarmony was founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical with ties to Focus on the Family, and it has grown to more than 12 million registered users, according to Reuters. The lawyer for the woman, Linda Carlson, said the lawsuit was "about changing the landscape and making a statement out there that gay people, just like heterosexuals, have the right and desire to meet other people with whom they can fall in love." Carlson is urging fellow homosexuals to join the class action lawsuit geared toward forcing eHarmony to change its policy.
Black Singles Meet Online Over Greens and Cornbread
GreensandCornbread.com is a premiere online dating site for African Americans. Carlton Enoch the sties creator has found a creative way to target the growing market of minority singles looking for love online. African Americans are very passionate about soul food. Soul food represents a down home quality and triggers warm and loving memories. .
SayHeyHey: Online dating gets video site
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Many online dating sites seek to connect soul mates, to bring together those looking for eternal and everlasting love. The latest Internet dating site, recently launched in Palo Alto, is not one of them. "It's not about marriage," said Alex Gurevich, co-founder of SayHeyHey.com, the first free all-video online dating site. The new site eschews the typical format of online dating sites where users carefully word profiles and post photos "from 10 years and 20 pounds ago," Gurevich said. Instead, users of SayHeyHey post videos of themselves talking, wakeboarding or — in co-founder Soudy Khan's case — utilizing a beer bong. If a visitor is interested in someone else's clip, he or she can send a video introduction.
TRUE.com Applauds Lawmakers for Passing Landmark Safer Dating ...
DALLAS, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/-- TRUE.com(R), the leading scientifically based online relationship service, congratulates New Jersey legislators for yesterday enacting the nation's first online dating legislation -- which is designed to protect the growing number of New Jersey citizens who are going online to meet potential dates. The Internet Dating Safety Act (Senate Bill-1977/A4304) requires online dating services to disclose their criminal background screening practices and to offer safer dating tips on their sites. With the growing concern nationwide about online safety overall, this legislation reinforces TRUE's steadfast commitment to safer online dating. TRUE's proactive policy requires criminal background and marriage screenings on all of its communicating members -- the only practice of its kind among major online dating sites.
Attention, Jewish Ladies: You Can Date J.R. Rotem!
Girls, now is your big chance. As long as you're Jewish and don't smoke. While he appears willing to rail Britney Spears all night long and get his name in the tabloids for possibly impregnating her, J.R. Rotem, is looking for love long-term with a nice Jewish girl on the online dating site, JDate.com. Using the username bhmusic, JR Rotem describes himself as a 32-year-old, non-smoking, non-drinking, muscular music producer. Sign us up, baby! Here's how the quote-unquote music producer Jonathan Rotem, a.k.a. J.R., describes himself to thousands of would-be suitors out there: "Hey girls… Congrats for stumbling onto my profile - you just hit the jackpot! I am Jonathan, an established music producer who is having a challenging time meeting a hot Jewish girl with good values.
A Look Inside the eHarmony Love Lab
Monica Breeden says she owes her trip down the aisle to eHarmony.com, which claims to be the most successful online dating site. EHarmony has about 19 million single members looking for love, and a national Harris poll found eHarmony's site is responsible for about 44,000 weddings a year and more than 100,000 babies born so far from the site's cybermatchmaking. .
Diller's Banana Split
If you walk into Barry Diller's ice cream parlor in a few months, you will finally have a say in the flavors you want to consume. The eclectic collection of properties that make up Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) media empire will be split into five distinctive cones. In short: Goodbye, vanilla. It's about time, really. If an investor is pumped about the prospects of the Ask.com search engine, it never made sense to hogtie that buyer to the steady-yet-clunky Home Shopping Network or subprime-battered LendingTree. By the same token, if someone believes that the talent-driven transformation driving Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) can also rub off on fellow concert promoter Ticketmaster, why should an IAC investor be forced to buy into time-share swappers or online dating sites? This isn't the first time that Diller has scooped out a sector.
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