BrainiacDating.com - Online Dating for Smart People
© theogeo BrainiacDating.com is a new niche online dating site for smart singles. The site is supposed to be for people who have "an open mind and a curiosity about the world." Being a brainiac isn't all that easy to define, after all. And, as the new site's press release points out, there are many different kinds of intelligence.Lawrence Chernin created the site in October of 2008 because he was he wanted a place for intelligent singles to be able to feel comfortable to meet online ...

Down to Earth Becomes Stir.com
It hasn't been long (a few months) since Match.com started its free site - Down to Earth. Well, now Down to Earth has grown a new sister site: Stir.com. Stir.com focuses on nightlife and the social scene. About.com Dating Guide Bonny Albo describes the new site's connection to the old one.Users who had previously registered with Down To Earth have automatically been moved to the new portal, although members who aren't interested in the lifestyle site can log in to either company and go to ...

Automated Dating Profiles? Try Gelato
You knew someone would think of this eventually. Gelato has created a system where your profile information gets drawn automatically from a social networking page you already have. It can use information you already have at Facebook or Twitter. It can also draw from your Netflix account or from LastFM. Gelato is different. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Netflix and other social networks offer great windows into what we are about. Pulling information from these social networks and supplementing that with our own writing leads to richer, ...

Coming Soon: A Culture of Exhibitionism?
Mashable had an article the other day on a stange new site called I Just Made Love. The new website lets you tell the world a.) where you are b.) what exactly you did (100 character limit) and c.) what you thought about it. Okay, I know this isn't dating, exactly. But it's an interesting commentary on who we're becoming, culturally. Do you really want to put this on the web? Mashable suggested that the website was funny. The asked for comments, and they've gotten ...

Seen that? - Speed Dating: The Movie
Speed Dating: The Movie at The Dating Weblog According to comingsoon.net, 20 Century Fox and director Luke Greenfield (who also directed "The Girl Next Door")are making a movie called "Speed Dating". (Scene from The Girl Next Door)"Based on a treatment by Beth Buck ...

Is She a Gold Digger? Just Don't Wife Her...
I talked recently about the new iPhone app (marketed mostly toward women) that lets do a background check on your date. Well guys, don't feel left out. There's also an a site that will help you decide if that bombshell batting her eyelashes at you is a gold digger: Just Don't Wife Her. The Frisky took a look at the site.Just Don't Wife Her promises to help guys avoid the old ball and chain by exposing gold diggers and cheaters, one at a time.The site is ...

Reality Check? How About a Background Check on Your Date?
Mashable ran a piece recently on a new iPhone app that could be every Casanova's nightmare. The app is call DateCheck. DateCheck is free (for now, at least). To run the background check you need a name, a phone number and an email address on your date. Mashable describes it this way:DateCheck is practically omniscient, working not only to weed out the real creeps, but to alert you to deadbeats, and even help you find compatible matches. The search application filters social web and public ...

Time is Money, but the Virtual Dating Assistant Doesn't Save You Much of Either
© D.C.Atty I blogged a couple of months ago about the Virtual Datign Assistant - a company that specialized in doing "the work of creating your profile and screening your possibilities." Online Dating Insider had a piece recently that points out that Virtual Dating Assistant is no longer alone in the field of dating outsourcing. There are other companies doing much the same thing now. David Evans at ODI suggests that the service do more harm than good. Read his article and see if you think he's ...

Does Facebook Create Jealous People?
Bonny Albo over at About.com's dating site asked a interesting question recently about the impact of social networking tools. The question: Does Facebook create jealous people? Facebook's popularity is growing by leaps and bounds. It is suddenly the tool de jour for social networking, expanding rapidly in a way that blurs private, social, and professional spheres of life. Bonny sees it as a chicken-and-egg question. Which came first: Facebook or jealousy? According to Bonny, "a recently released Canadian study found that the more time users spent ...

Men: How To Make Sure Your Dating Profile Doesn't Get You Anywhere...
© Tobyotter I found this piece from the Frisky and thought it was very entertaining. The truth in it is obvious (except to people who make these mistakes, I guess).For some of these men, the deal breaker can be small - that moment when you're checking him out, and all is going well until you scroll down to see that one off-putting thing and it's click, on to the next. Then of course, there are the all around disaster cases where everything from the picture to ...