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| 14.06.2024 | Как мы создали приложение знакомств, чтобы находить «половинку» в 8 раз быстрее | Всем хочется знакомиться только с теми, кто действительно подходит, легко встретить своего человека и не зависать в бесконечном поиске.
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| 11.06.2024 | Inside the Grindr app relaunch: ‘We’re making the hook up easier than ever’ | - |
| 22.05.2024 | Tired of dating apps? You're not alone; survey says 79% Gen Z feel the same | - |
| 21.05.2024 | Meta e Tinder se unem em coalizão contra golpes de criptos | Empresas de tecnologia e de criptomoedas se unem para combater fraudes (Imagem: WorldSpectrum/Pixabay)
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| 19.05.2024 | Como apagar alguém de uma foto? Conheça Ex-Terminador, nova IA da Photoroom e OkCupid | Você já imaginou poder remover aquela pessoa indesejada de uma foto incrível? Agora isso é possível! A ferramenta “Ex-terminador”, desenvolvida pela Photoroom em parceria com o OkCupid, utiliza inteligência artificial para permitir que usuá... |
| 08.05.2024 | Match Group expects quarterly revenue below estimates as spending on dating apps falls | :Tinder-parent Match Group forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as people dial back spending on dating apps, weighing on user growth. Shares of the Dallas, Texas-based company fell more than 4 per cent in ... |
| 07.05.2024 | The woman next to Sundar Pichai in this pic from IIT became the CEO of… | A throwback pic of Sundar Pichai from his IIT Kharagpur days (Image credit: @ananyalohani_/X)
A never-seen-before photograph of Google CEO Sundar Pichai from his IIT Kharagpur convocation day is currently going viral on social media. The pi... |
| 30.04.2024 | Bumble Dating App Pushes to Make Online Dating Profitable With New Features, Sweeping Redesign Women still take the lead, but they have more options about how to make their move. | - |
| 23.04.2024 | Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data | Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo Gen Z users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report... |
| 21.04.2024 | Tinder gets a ‘Share My Date’ feature for users to send date plans to their curious friends | It’s not uncommon for people to screenshot dating profiles and send them to their friends and loved ones, either to get feedback or to let them know who they’re seeing that weekend. Now, Tinder users are able to share their date plans direc... |
| 04.04.2024 | Advice | Ask Amy: Single man wants relatable advice | Dear Amy:
I love your column and how you relate your own experience in your answers.
My question is one I have not seen particularly addressed.
I am a 58-year-old gay man and have identified as bi for most of my adulthood.
I have had signif... |
| 28.03.2024 | Why online dating is facing an onslaught of AI-powered fraud | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
When Aleksandr Zhadan used ChatGPT to talk to over 5,000 women on Tinder, it was a sign of things to come.
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated and easily available, online dati... |
| 12.03.2024 | Orra: Revolutionizing the Future of online dating with AI-Driven Lasting Connections | Orra Dating App Logo
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| 11.03.2024 | Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, Yoel Roth, joins Tinder owner Match Group | Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth announced today that he is joining Match Group, the parent company of several popular dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge. Yoel, who shared the move on LinkedIn, is now the company’s v... |
| 27.12.2023 | USD 1.7M to Help GameTree Grow Healthier Gaming Communities | Ukrainian-American AI-driven social platform for gamers GameTree raised USD 1.7M from a whole constellation of investors, led by the renowned Corazón Capital The platform’s proprietary AI helps improve matchmaking and minimize the toxicity ... |
| 01.04.2022 | The Dating Game: Survey Shows How And Why South Africans Use Tinder | Dating: The dating game: survey shows how and why South Africans use Tinder |
| 12.02.2022 | The 7 best dating sites and apps you can use for free | Many popular dating apps are free to varying degrees. Willie B. Thomas/Getty Images
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| 12.02.2022 | The 7 best dating sites and apps you can use for free | Free dating sites can be a convenient way to meet new people if you're back on the dating scene.
Although many dating apps are free to use, their features are limited unless you upgrade to a paid subscription.
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| 12.02.2022 | The 7 best dating sites and apps you can use for free | Many popular dating apps are free to varying degrees. Willie B. Thomas/Getty Images
Free dating sites can be a convenient way to meet new people if you’re back on the dating scene.
Although many dating apps are free to use, their features a... |
| 04.01.2022 | The Dating Game: Survey Shows How And Why South Africans Use Tinder | Dating: The dating game: survey shows how and why South Africans use Tinder |
| 01.07.2021 | What private data does your Tinder, Grindr or Bumble keep | July 1, 2021 12 min read
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In the quarantines brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic , many internet users turned to dating apps to... |
| 03.06.2021 | BestApp.com Recognizes Best Hookup Apps for The Year 2021 | LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) June 03, 2021
BestApp.com, an in-depth guide for the latest mobile app reviews and technology trends, has announced the best hookup apps of 2021. The study prioritized platforms with robust safety and security tools as w... |
| 02.03.2021 | Common business models that venture capital firms invest in, explained | Business models are unequivocally the most important part of a business, as they tell the story of how the enterprise works.
Business models allow us to hone in on who exactly the customer is, what the customer values, and how the company f... |
| 12.12.2020 | Covid-19 Is Changing How Apps And Entrepreneurs Play Cupid This Christmas | In addition to Grindr, options for LGBTQ singles to find that special someone online are growing, as ... [+] are matchmaking services. getty |
| 03.09.2020 | Dating apps prompt users to register to vote in 2020 election | Originally Published by:
US divorce rates skyrocket amid COVID-19 pandemic Daters using apps, matchmakers to facilitate safer meetups Neighbor advises woman to dump cheating boyfriend in note left on car
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| 23.04.2020 | Как заработать на маркетплейсе: шесть главных способов | Монетизация маркетплейса играет решающую роль в его успешности. Если не соблюсти баланс между моделью заработка и пользой для клиентов, все обречено. «Лайв Тайпинг» рассказывает, какие типы монетизации бывают и каким типам маркетплейсов они... |
| 03.12.2018 | 5 Startup Trends that Shaped the Midwest in 2018
1. Marketplaces remain one of the strongest tech sectors
2. Health care gets even hotter
3. Logistics keeps on truckin’
4. Big bets on enterprise s... | 2018 is quickly drawing to its close, but the Midwest’s venture capital activity is still buzzing. Just this week, celebrity shoutout marketplace startup Cameo announced that it closed a $12.5 million round of funding led by Lightspeed Vent... |
| 29.11.2018 | 5 startup trends that shaped the Midwest in 2018 | 2018 is quickly drawing to its close, but the Midwest’s venture capital activity is still buzzing. Just this week, celebrity shoutout marketplace startup Cameo announced that it closed a $12.5 million round of funding led by Lightspeed Vent... |
| 29.11.2018 | 5 startup trends that shaped the Midwest in 2018 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
2018 is quickly drawing to its close, but the Mid... |
| 18.08.2017 | OkCupid bans white supremacist “for life,” asks daters to report others | Enlarge
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| 24.04.2017 | 8 необычных мест, где можно расплатиться биткоинами | Ресурс Bebitcoin.com приводит данные опроса 4000 владельцев биткоинов из различных стран мира.
Энтузиасты биткоина призывают делать покупки более разнообразными, чтобы система оставалось жизнеспособной
Опрос показал, что половина респондент... |
| 01.08.2016 | This interracial dating app is about more than love | After being selected for Y Combinator’s 2014 class and working on creating an artificial intelligence-fueled chatbot, Vu Tran decided three months ago to scrap that project and create Color Dating, an app for interracial dating. It’s been s... |
| 01.08.2016 | This interracial dating app is about more than love | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After being selected for Y Combinator’s 2014 class and working on creating an artificial intelligence-fueled chatbot, Vu Tran decided t... |
| 13.02.2016 | Didn't Find Your Valentine On Tinder? Try These Dating Apps | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 13 February 2016, 12:02 am
Location-based dating app Tinder is one of the most-popular dating apps but not everyone may find his or her valentine using this service. There are several other dating apps that can hel... |
| 15.07.2015 | OKCupid Founders Get $10.8M To Build A Kinder, Gentler Public Key Encryption Tool | What do you for an encore after you founded and sold OKCupid? Well you tackle public-key encryption, of course.
Keybase was the result, and the company announced a $10.8 million Series A investment today led by Andreessen Horowitz.
While it... |
| 28.01.2015 | Silk Road Trial: Here Is Ross Ulbricht's OKCupid Profile | If you are looking for a guy who is good at solving problems, maintaining an infectious happiness despite his circumstances, and is possibly going to prison for life for running the world's largest internet drug ring, we've found the perfe... |
| 23.01.2015 | The Internet Of Things Will Be A Hotel California For Your Data | The Internet of Things promises to create mountains upon mountains of data, but none of it will be yours.
I don’t mean that you won’t be generating lots of data with your Fitbit, smartphone and a myriad of other devices. No, I just mean tha... |
| 16.12.2014 | This startup wants to be the OkCupid of job recruiting: Jobsuitors | Williamsburg’s Jobsuitors takes the idea of OkCupid and applies it to helping people find a workplace that really fits.
One of its cofounders, Steve Dean really likes OkCupid. He uses it a lot; he even runs a dating consultancy. He believes... |
| 30.09.2014 | Predictive market segments: The next frontier in marketing tech | This sponsored post is produced by Radius.
In a world in which Amazon can predict which books you’ll read and online dating sites presume to predict racial dating preferences, it seems completely absurd that we still receive marketing email... |
| 24.09.2014 | Law Professor Claims Any Internet Company 'Research' On Users Without Review Board Approval Is Illegal | For many years I’ve been a huge fan of law professor James Grimmelmann. His legal analysis on various issues is often quite valuable, and I’ve quoted him more than a few times. However, he’s now arguing that the now infamous Facebook happin... |
| 22.09.2014 | OkCupid arose before ‘Big Data’ was a thing, and other takeaways from cofounder Christian Rudder | Every dating site, Christian Rudder explained, has to have some sort of method of crowdsourcing the attractiveness of its members, or else it turns into “a shitshow.”
You might be wondering, as this reporter did, what he could possibly mean... |
| 31.07.2014 | OKCupid admits experimenting on users a la Facebook. All for love? | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 31 July 2014, 08:07 am
OKCupid revealed in an official blog post that, like Facebook, it has been manipulating some aspects of its website and then analyzing the reactions of its users as an experiment.
The experime... |
| 30.07.2014 | OkCupid draws illustration of users as guinea pigs, literally | OkCupid is doubling down on a controversial blog post, where it openly admitted to experimenting on users. Monday, in a blog post titled “We Experiment On Human Beings,” the dating site openly admitted to randomly pairing up users with less... |
| 30.07.2014 | Did OKCupid’s dating-results experiment help an Arsian find love? | Don Hankins reader comments 92 with 70 posters participating
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| 30.07.2014 | Why OKCupid’s Experiments Aren’t The Same As Facebook’s | OKCupid on Monday wrote a viral blog post where it admitted to experimenting on human beings, comparing tests it runs to improve its dating algorithms to the study Facebook did that took over the news cycle early this month. Today Reuters r... |
| 30.07.2014 | OkCupid draws illustration of users as guinea pigs, literally | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 30.07.2014 | Dating website OKCupid admits to ‘experimenting’ on users: When is it OK to use your customers as lab rats? | All is fair in love and war, according to online dating service OKCupid, which this week owned up to “experimenting” on its users.
Just weeks after a research project involving Facebook’s manipulation of users’ news feeds caused a stir, the... |
| 29.07.2014 | OkCupid: Yes, we experimented on users and we're not sorry | Mark Hawver, Tech Times 29 July 2014, 02:07 pm
OkCupid, one of the most popular matchmaking websites, is admitting it too, like Facebook, has mislead its followers through social experiment fun and games.
Maybe the company believes its user... |
| 28.07.2014 | Everyone’s A Lab Rat In OkCupid’s Labyrinth Of Love | OkCupid’s dating trends research blog is back, reminding us again just how shallow humans are, and that our time spent on the Internet can be modified to a company’s whims.
While unveiling the latest social dating data, the dating site also... |
| 28.07.2014 | OkCupid Brags About Manipulating Online Daters in Secret Tests | Joke’s on us. (Photo by MattysFlicks)
After all of the furor over Facebook’s invasive experiments on users’ news feeds, other startups running the same plays had to be thinking: “What do we do now?” In the case of OkCupid, their version of ... |
| 28.06.2014 | IAC Putting A Ring On Dating Site HowAboutWe | Looks like IAC is adding Brooklyn-based HowAboutWe as another notch in its dating site acquisition belt. It already owns Match.com, OkCupid and a majority stake in Tinder.
According to a letter obtained by Business Insider, founder Brian Sc... |
| 20.06.2014 | Yes, now you can get your Tinder profile pimped out for $50 | “No guile, no game, no girl,” said the fictional dating coach Hitch, played by Will Smith in the movie of the same name, to his newest customer.
Dating advice, in formal and informal manners, has probably been around since dating was invent... |
| 01.05.2014 | Decide.com Founder Brian Ma Returns With Weave, Which Is Like Tinder For Professional Networking | I’m not on the market right now, but I can totally understand the appeal of Tinder and its double opt-in approach to online (or rather, mobile) dating. After all, the app makes it easy to connect with people you’d like to meet, while avoidi... |
| 09.04.2014 | Changing Your Password Won’t Save You From Heartbleed | Heartbleed, the security exploit with a cute logo. (photo via heartbleed.com)
This past Monday, the world was introduced to Heartbleed, a bug in OpenSSL that allowed hackers to access sensitive user data.
OpenSSL is an an encryption tool in... |
| 31.03.2014 | OkCupid Offers Firefox Visitors Links To Alternate Browsers To Protest New Mozilla CEO | Online dating site OkCupid is presenting Firefox visitors with something other than the standard home page you’d normally encounter – instead, there’s a lengthy message apologizing for the interruption and explaining that OkCupid opposes th... |
| 14.03.2014 | 17 Incredibly Specific Dating Sites That Prove There's Someone for Everyone | Equestrian Cupid
You could write a pop country song by just reading “Horse Lover Dating Ideas” to music.
“Nice pickup truck sitting on the tailgate”
“Going on a horseback ride thru the woods”
“Just going for a nice quiet ride.”
“I let this ... |
| 04.03.2014 | Why Queer Women Need Their Own Dating App | From Match and OkCupid to Skout and Scruff, social dating apps offer 32 flavors of matchmaking—and then some. Right now, gay men are prowling Grindr for no-strings insta hook-ups. Jewish singles are browsing JDate for cute boyfriend materia... |
| 14.02.2014 | Looking for Love: 6 Apps to Help You Find a Date Tonight | Around 44 percent of American adults are single, so there are more than 100 million potential Mr. or Ms. Rights in this country alone. You probably won't meet them knocking back beers, as only 9 percent of men and 2 percent of women have st... |
| 04.01.2014 | How Technology Simplified My Move To A Big City | Uprooting your life to start anew can be daunting. I came to San Francisco without a plan or place to live, and, after traveling to the city just once before I made a decision to move, the unfamiliarity was mildly uncomfortable. Which is wh... |
| 20.11.2013 | OKCupid emails still give anyone full access to your account | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 20.08.2013 | OKStupid: Dating site e-mail may give people access to your account | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 20.08.2013 | OKStupid: Dating site e-mail may give people access to your account | Do not forward e-mail or links you receive from OKCupid — you may be handing out direct, unprotected access to your account.
Imagine your friend forwards you an e-mailed notification he got from OKCupid. When you click on the link, suddenly... |
| 20.08.2013 | OKCupid Login Blunder Allows For Easy Access to Your Embarrassing Inbox | (Screencap: OKCupid)
A few months ago, this Betabeat reporter jokingly created an OKCupid account on a whim with the username “ilovebitcoin” to solicit amusing messages from people who were shocked–shocked–to discover that ladies know about... |
| 01.05.2013 | 10 companies that use bitcoins | Why would a "regular" business -- as opposed to a deep web marketplace like Silk Road -- accept bitcoins?
Lots of reasons, say bitcoin-loving entrepreneurs. The digital currency is better at protecting privacy than, say, credit ca... |
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| 16.04.2013 | OKCupid partners with Coinbase (YC S12) to become the latest Web service to support Bitcoin | The world and his brother — well…the media, at least — has gone Bitcoin crazy in recent times, and the latest company to cash in on that attentionride that wave is dating site OKCupid, which is now accepting payments in the digital currency... |
| 16.04.2013 | Tallygram, OkCupid’s Foray Into Friend Finding On Facebook, Hits The Deadpool | Tallygram, a Facebook-based friend-finding app created by dating site OkCupid, has shut down, saying that the community never grew large enough to sustain the site. Tallygram, which originally billed itself as “a better way to surf Facebook... |
| 12.02.2013 | Looking to split people up, Virgin Mobile & OkCupid pair for ‘National Breakup Day’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Not feeling Valentine’s Day? Neither are wireless carrier Virgin Mobile and online dating service OkCupid.
The two companies are hijack... |
| 15.01.2013 | New OKCupid app matches users based on ‘words and wits,’ not body parts | Free tonight and feeling courageous enough for a blind date? Launching today, an app called “Crazy Blind Date” matches you with a mysterious stranger.
Before agreeing to meet, all you’ll see is a shattered profile picture, age, first name, ... |
| 19.10.2012 | The Battle to be the Best Dating Site | Editor’s Note: This article is a revised version of an article that appears in the May 2012 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like it, you might want to download The Social Media Monthly iPad app or iPhone app and subscribe, or orde... |
| 09.10.2012 | CAPTCHAs With A Conscience: Can You Prove You’re Human? | Can websites get visitors to prove they’re human by forcing them to make a moral choice? This is not a hypothetical question.
I wrote an article for ReadWriteWeb this summer about a way to replace those annoying CAPTCHAs with a miniature ga... |
| 03.09.2012 | Twitter Is Looking For A Data Editor To, Um, Tell Compelling Stories Based On Its Data | Twitter has a fair number of open jobs available, but this one caught our eye: The startup is looking for a data editor to make sense of and tell stories around its user data. According to the job listing, the ideal candidate will be able t... |
| 23.08.2012 | OkCupid Asks Ad-Blocker Users To Go Ad-Free Forever For $5 With This Smart, Funny Banner | “So normally there would be an ad in this spot. But you’re using an ad-blocker like a boss. Here’s a solution: You donate $5 to us once, & we remove all ads from the site forever.” That’s the text from a sidebar banner appearing on dati... |
| 06.08.2012 | Startup Spotlight: Ex-Boeing engineer matches serious gamers with Teamfind | Like a tennis partner or golf buddy, finding a gaming companion who shares your goals and skill level can be hard. Teamfind, with more than 21,000 members, is working to ease the pain by empowering players to find a perfect match. Not only ... |
| 23.04.2012 | Conservative or Liberal? One Question to Rule them All | Redeem now
I’m devastated that Christian Rudder hasn’t posted to the OKTrends blog for more than a year.* He did statistical analysis of the monstrous database of OK Cupid — a dating site that asks participants hundreds of often odd and qui... |
| 07.04.2012 | The Atlantic’s Social Media Editor Busted For Spamming Reddit | Screengrab from Mr. Keller's OKCupid profile
Media outlets should have learned a lesson when Village Voice Media got caught spamming Reddit and basically had to grovel for the Mechagodzilla of link aggregation sites’ forgiveness, but they d... |
| 19.03.2012 | Hate Date | Every time I start dating someone new, I get déjà vu. Why does this feel so familiar? Oh right, because I date the same brooding artists over and over again. I like them skinny and sensitive, the more introverted, the better. What’s that? Y... |
| 28.02.2012 | Circl.es: Facebook-Connected Online Dating That Isn’t Creepy | Most 21st century humanoids have probably either at one point tried online dating or dissed online dating. Or both.
We have reached a new point in history, at which we either do not feel like we can meet people in real life, or we are too e... |
| 14.02.2012 | Cracking the Love Code: Why Most Online Dating Sites Fail | If you’re single, today sucks. There is no escaping all the ooey-gooey-makes-you-just-want-to-barf ads and promotions for Valentine’s Day. As our lives become increasingly busy, it seems that the easiest way to meet people is online, a fact... |
| 30.01.2012 | OkCupid Data Scientist Max Shron Talks Data Analysis, Next OkTrends Post | Mr. Shron
Last Friday, OkCupid’s data scientist Max Shron gave about 30 students at a Hackdays event a peek at what he does everyday: take terrifying amounts of raw data, make sense of it and draw insightful conclusions based on what he fin... |
| 28.11.2011 | Do you need a data scientist? | Some of the world’s biggest tech companies from Google to Facebook are data-driven, but few startup founders have any idea what a data scientist does, never mind whether they should hire one. Here is VentureBeat’s guide to data science for ... |
| 28.11.2011 | Do you need a data scientist? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 18.11.2011 | OkCupid expands to San Francisco, develops OkCupid Labs | While OkCupid Labs is still under construction, CEO hints at a slightly more grown-up version
Popular dating site OkCupid has expanded from their New York base into a new San Francisco branch, with a brand new site called OkCupid Labs. As t... |
| 14.09.2011 | OKCupid’s Brilliant ‘OKTrends’ Blog Continues To Inspire Lesser Imitators | (OKtrends)
Has any startup company blog ever been as ripped off as OKTrends? OKCupid started compiling statistics about its users, thanks to Harvard data nerd and cofounder Christian Rudder, and releasing those stats as press releases and b... |
| 07.09.2011 | Unlocking Big Data with R | The explosion of big data has caused far-reaching ripples in the enterprise. Organizations today are faced with unprecedented challenges in sorting, processing and analyzing their data, which has in turn given rise to a new generation of te... |
| 05.09.2011 | Impersonated On OKCupid! Blogger Awakens to Find 8-Hour-Old Account Under His Email, Messaging People About Rape | It’s possible to set up and use an account on OKCupid using someone else’s email address, as comedian and blogger Adam Heath Avitable discovered last week when he woke up to emails from the dating site addressed to “gayasssfuck,” thanking h... |
| 12.08.2011 | In Which Sam Yagan Tries to Convince Us OkCupid’s New Local Dating App Is the Anti-Grindr | When OkCupid co-founder Sam Yagan announced yesterday that the company’s mobile app would now let users connect with members “near you, right now, on the fly,” he did so with no small measure of chutzpah. Along with revealing a “Twitter-lik... |
| 11.08.2011 | OKCupid Integrates Location Based Dating Into iOS And Android Apps | Online dating site OkCupid is making a big move today in the mobile space—the service is adding location-based functionality to its Android and iOS mobile apps. For background, OkCupid singles tend to be younger, which is one of the reasons... |
| 06.07.2011 | Can the New and Improved HopStop Really Stand-Up To Google Maps? | Last month, Betabeat talked to HopStop CEO Joe Meyer about “holding [its] own against the giant”–that being Google–especially in New York, where HopStop started. Now that the revamped site, with integrations from Yelp, Groupon, and Hertz, h... |
| 27.06.2011 | The Limits of Big Data | Greg Borenstein takes on what he sees as the dominant view among the elite geeks at FooCamp in a recent blog post. According to Borenstein, the theme embraced at FooCamp was “big data will save us.”
Borenstein raises some excellent points a... |
| 19.04.2011 | Twitter Users Date Less, Jerk Off More | The peerless Christian Rudder dropped ten charts today over at OkCupid’s blog.
First off, it’s 2 to 1 that frequent Twitter users are perpetuating a little #selflove each day. A tendency towards short, egotistical bursts. Yup, sounds about ... |
| 01.03.2011 | hackNY Expands Its Internship Program, Matching Student Hackers and NYC Startups | hackNY is a program that brings student hackers from universities around the country to New York City for paid summer internships. The hackNY Fellows are matched with startups in the city and participate in a 10-week program that includes m... |
| 02.02.2011 | IAC's Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid For $50M In Cash | IAC’s Match.com is continuing its acquisition strategy today with the purchase of online dating site OkCupid for $50 million in cash. The deal also includes future earnouts contingent upon performance.
While Match.com has a significant user... |
| 02.02.2011 | A match made in heaven: IAC acquires OkCupid | The terms of the deal include $50M in cash, but the management team will continue to run the show
IAC, the owner of more than 50 Web companies including Match.com, announced Wednesday that it has acquired OkCupid.com, a dating site that has... |
| 02.02.2011 | Match.com to Marry OKCupid | Match.com just shelled out $50 million for New York’s homegrown dating site OKCupid, the dating site known for being free, giving its users quizzes, and turning those surveys into fascinating plunges into the human psyche at the OKTrends bl... |
| 27.12.2010 | Moot On 4Chan User Survey: "It's Total Garbage." | Over the weekend, a interesting demographic survey of over 6000 4Chan users made the rounds of 4Chan, Reddit and Hacker News. While if anyone is going to skew a survey it’s 4Chan users, the Google document with the responses given a lot of ... |
| 14.10.2010 | Google: Android users search twice as much as others | iPhone users may have sex twice as much as other smartphone owners, but Android users search twice as much as others, Google announced during its third quarter earnings call today.
The company was responding to questions about how it will b... |
| 16.08.2010 | Beyond Messaging: Open APIs in Marketing | Siri – an iPhone application that uses its speech recognition technology to act as a mobile personal assistant that was purchased by Apple earlier this year – is an excellent case study in how to leverage open APIs to satiate utilitarian co... |
| 11.08.2010 | Donas de iPhone são as que mais fazem sexo, diz pesquisa | Use sem moderação.
Em uma pesquisa tecno-antropológica de inestimado valor científico, o site de relacionamentos OkCupid concluiu que os donos e donas de iPhones são os que mais fazem sexo entre os seus cerca de 10 mil usuários consultados.... |
| 10.08.2010 | Can The iPhone Get You Laid? | Yes, OKCupid’s data confirms our suspicions, iPhone users do “do it” more, at a rate of about 2x that of Android users. Perhaps this is because the Android has an easily accessible porn app store?
Presumably iPhone users are better at getti... |
