Showing posts with label smart single. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smart single. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2010

Find a Smart Date on Facebook

I just came across this new site called smart date which uses your facebook friends to scan through their friends and find dates for you. I would not normally have come across such a site except that it was in the news because of a recent venture capital investment of $2.5 million! Wow, again showing how hot the Facebook economy is.


I think this is a good idea, but wonder how well people tag their information in Facebook. Most people fill out their profile once, so I'd bet that half the information is out of date, so it's not like members on a site like match.com who would be keeping their profiles active and specifically designed for the purpose of dating. They also need to compete with Zoosk - who is the dominant dating site on Facebook. Another worry I have is about the privacy of one's friends network.
Somewhere it should be required to ask permission to trace a friends network, but your friends and their friends may not
want to be bothered, or even annoyed to have their friends traced. Unless this is done secretly, and under the hood, but
then that's even a worse problem.

Darn, I wish my smart date - Brainiac Dating - which really is smart dating could get $2.5 million in funding, or even just a quarter of that would probably be enough to splurge on advertising and grow the membership five fold. That would be investor money more well spent!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Science Dating Sites

I randomly came across this site today, and it looks fully functional with features such as instant messenger and a chat room.




Their home page has the following quote:



Is Carl Sagan a hero to you? Is E=mc² more than just some obscure formula you forgot in school? Yell "cool" when lightning flashes close by? Strange and unfathomable implements populating your basement? Yep, you've got it bad and need someone to play with.


I wish them luck, but they have no idea the huge amount of investment in advertising required to bring members to their site. So far I have spent close to $50,000 to bring around 16,500 members
to my site Brainiac Dating. My goal is 100,000 members, so there is still a long way to go.