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ViewDate.com Announces World's First Online Speed Dating Service
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewDate, the world's first website to offer online speed dating services, today announced another free invitation-only dating session on its revolutionary website, http://www.viewdate.com Connie Jinq, ViewDate's founder, started ViewDate after hearing feedback from frustrated friends who had tried traditional speed dates and online dating. Both seemed promising, but fundamentally flawed. Ms. Jinq realized that these flaws could make meaningful relationships difficult to foster. With the help of her fiancee and friends, ViewDate was created to address these flaws and make to online dating a more personal, enjoyable experience. ViewDate allows users to see and speak to each other in real time over the Internet, and a full-fledged profile, search and messaging system lets them keep in touch between events.
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.
FLAVOR OF THE WEEK: THE DATE FROM HELL, NEW JERSEY
For KATELYN NUDO, every picture tells a story. Unfortunately, most of them aren't true. By Katelyn Nudo I swore I would never join one of those online dating services. When I did, it was on my mother’s suggestion. I guess she could see from my list of drug dealers, egotistical Italians and Spanish lovers that I needed some help. I don’t know why I ever went against my initial thought of dot-com dating, because when I met Kevin, I knew I was in trouble. When eharmony.com produced a total of zero matches for my personality, I tried Plentyoffish.com. It was free, and it was on the computer monitor in my college library when I sat down. A sign perhaps. I signed up with a false email address and browsed promising boyfriends, one-night stands and future husbands. I must admit, I was surprised at how many good-looking men were desperate in the tri-state area.
The meeting of like moms
Women also are going online to find moms who match their personality and interests, much like singles use an online dating service."You scope 'em out," says Magalie Belanger, 31, about prospective mommy-friends in Helena, Mont. "You see how they deal with their children, and with yours."It's like dating, but the dates are with other moms and their children. While the kids play, hopefully without tantrums or biting, the moms are free to talk about the things they have in common, from the lofty subjects of religion and politics to the more practical topics of teething and diaper rash."Women, they want someone else who is going through the same thing," says Drury Sherrod, a Los Angeles social psychologist who studies friendship.Often, that can mean seeking out other women in the same trimester of pregnancy or whose children are similar in age, he says.Kate Harmon, 41, of Concord, Mass., recalls how 10 years ago she fell into the perfect support group while her husband was a graduate student in Boston.
Online social clubs prove beneficial to moms
The pickup lines are the same. But they're delivered with a mommy twist."Do you come here (the playground) often?""Do you want to come to my place, or shall we go to yours?"Mothers of young children, who a few years ago may have been looking for Mr. Right in a bar, now are seeking Mrs. Right and her kids in between the swings and the slides at the local playground.Women also are going online to find moms who match their personality and interests, much like singles use an online dating service."You scope 'em out," says Magalie Belanger, 31, about prospective mommy-friends in Helena, Mont. "You see how they deal with their children, and with yours."It's like dating, but the dates are with other moms and their children. While the kids play, hopefully without tantrums or biting, the moms are free to talk about the things they have in common, from the lofty subjects of religion and politics to the more practical topics of teething and diaper rash."Women, they want someone else who is going through the same thing," says Drury Sherrod, a Los Angeles social psychologist who studies friendship.Often, that can mean seeking out other women in the same trimester of pregnancy or whose children are similar in age, he says.Kate Harmon, 41, of Concord, Mass., recalls how 10 years ago she fell into the perfect support group while her husband was a graduate student in Boston.
Pintail hunting loads of fun on land near Sealy
Several waterfowl-hunting buddies called this week to say that pintails were thick on flats outside the city. Maybe so, but population levels of the coastal prairie's most popular species are not what they used to be. Rewind a quarter century. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hovered around 1,050, average annual income was $21,000, and a postage stamp cost 20 cents. I won't even tell you how cheap gasoline was. My hair was longer. My stomach was flatter and I had access to some prime duck water south of Sealy. For Larry Gore, a professional guide working out of Katy, Sealy seemed a long way to drive in the dark with three or four cars trying to follow, and Eagle Lake might as well have been in another state. Most other guides in our stable weren't interested in making that 45-minute haul and, as did their clients, preferred to set decoys and wallow in mud nearer the breakfast buffet.
Google Wants Your Medical Records
The don't want insurance companies to know if they are getting new insurance, and maybe banks if they are trying to get a home loan, but guess what both of those groups get the information. It was doctors that used the AIDS scare as a scare tactic to get HIPAA pushed through, oh, go protest, they are going to discriminate against people with AIDS, so go out and call them all sexists, and embarrass them into passing this very, very bad law, that not only doubled the cost of medical treatment in the us, but exposes the public to bad doctors/medicines for a much longer time before they are discovered. Doctors and hospitals didn't like that lawyers were mining databases of medical records finding patterns that allowed them to easily detect bad doctors and bad hospitals. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) electronic medical records by fubar on Feb 21st, 2008 @ 7:39am If you're anxious about your electronic medical records being secured appropriately, I have terrible news for you.
No Telecast, Red Carpet for the Golden Globes
ET has also learned that there will be no red carpet and no Globes parties either. "The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards" NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom is officially cancelled. The action was taken as a result of the writers strike, and followed SAG's announcement last Friday that its members would not cross a picket line. "We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," said JORGE CAMARA, president of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled." .
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